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Characterizing the spatial distribution of typical natural disaster vulnerability in China from 2010 to 2017
- Source :
- Natural Hazards. 100:3-15
- Publication Year :
- 2019
- Publisher :
- Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2019.
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Abstract
- Natural disaster vulnerability can intuitively reflect the susceptibility of an area to environmental changes. Better understanding the spatial distribution of natural disaster vulnerability is a critical process for taking effective adaptation and management. Although significant achievements have been made in disaster vulnerability, few studies are known about natural disaster vulnerability at the national scale, especially from the typical natural disaster events in China. In this study, with normalizing selected indicators and calculating vulnerability index, we analyzed the spatial distribution of natural disasters vulnerability during 2010–2017 using the geospatial techniques. The results showed that natural disaster vulnerability has certain spatial differences, but different natural disaster can occur in the same area during the study period. Drought disaster can occur in all regions of China, especially in Inner Mongolia. Flood disaster is mainly concentrated in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River and the Yellow River Basin. The wind and storm disaster is chiefly in the northern regions in China. The freezing disaster is widely distributed in China. Furthermore, the regions with low vulnerability were primarily distributed in the eastern coastal region, indicating that the rapid development of economy and technology can resist or mitigate natural disaster to a certain extent. This study offers a solution to study natural disasters and provides scientific basis for disaster prevention and mitigation actions.
- Subjects :
- Sustainable development
021110 strategic, defence & security studies
Atmospheric Science
010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences
Flood myth
Vulnerability index
Emergency management
business.industry
Environmental resource management
0211 other engineering and technologies
Vulnerability
Storm
02 engineering and technology
01 natural sciences
Geography
Natural hazard
Earth and Planetary Sciences (miscellaneous)
Natural disaster
business
0105 earth and related environmental sciences
Water Science and Technology
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 15730840 and 0921030X
- Volume :
- 100
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Natural Hazards
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........692b3d5d72d261a2c1c63da1bd685751