A comprehensive flash flood defense system in China: overview, achievements, and outlook

Liang Guo (), Bingshun He (), Meihong Ma (), Qingrui Chang (), Qing Li, Ke Zhang () and Yang Hong ()
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Liang Guo: Research Center on Flood and Drought Disaster Reduction of the MWR
Bingshun He: Research Center on Flood and Drought Disaster Reduction of the MWR
Meihong Ma: Beijing Normal University
Qingrui Chang: Research Center on Flood and Drought Disaster Reduction of the MWR
Qing Li: Research Center on Flood and Drought Disaster Reduction of the MWR
Ke Zhang: Hohai University
Yang Hong: Tsinghua University

Natural Hazards: Journal of the International Society for the Prevention and Mitigation of Natural Hazards, 2018, vol. 92, issue 2, No 8, 727-740

Abstract: Abstract The National Flash Flood Prevention Project, which mainly consists of non-structural and supplementary structural measures, has been conducted for 6 years in China. Some preliminary achievements have contributed to the prevention of flash flood in China. Based on the latest information, this article introduces China’s flash flood prevention system, primarily from the perspective of its development process, components, investment, and characteristics. To date, the system has incorporated many distinguished large-scale features such as the largest rain gauge network (approximately 0.5 million stations) in the world, massive disaster observation and preparedness networks, people-and-expert combined monitoring and forecasting data integration system, and a vast implementation area. Based on its early achievements and some typical case investigations of such flash flood prevention system, the article also discusses China’s prospects for preventing flash flood disasters in the future.

Keywords: Flash flood; Prevention system; China (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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