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Natural Disasters in China

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  • © 2016

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Editors:
  1. Peijun Shi

    1. Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China

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  • The first English language book systematically introduces the spatial and temporal patterns of natural disasters, quantifies natural disaster vulnerability, evaluates natural disaster risks, summarizes the key strategies of integrated natural disaster risk governance, and analyzes large-scale disaster response cases in China
  • Includes over 100 figures to illustrate the spatial and temporal patterns of major natural disasters, disaster vulnerability, and disaster risks
  • Offers in-depth analyses of all major natural disasters and catastrophic natural disaster response cases
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: IHDP/Future Earth-Integrated Risk Governance Project Series (IHDP-FEIRG)

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. Natural Disaster System in China

    • Peijun Shi, Wei Xu, Jing’ai Wang
    Pages 1-36

  3. Earthquake Disasters in China

    • Wei Xu, Jifu Liu, Guodong Xu, Ying Wang, Lianyou Liu, Peijun Shi
    Pages 37-72

  4. Landslide and Debris Flow Disasters in China

    • Yongqiu Wu, Xilin Liu, Jing’ai Wang, Lianyou Liu, Peijun Shi
    Pages 73-101

  5. Typhoon Disasters in China

    • Weihua Fang, Xingchun Zhong, Xianwu Shi
    Pages 103-131

  6. Floods in China

    • Juan Du, Feng Kong, Shiqiang Du, Ning Li, Ying Li, Peijun Shi
    Pages 133-159

  7. Droughts in China

    • Tao Ye, Huicong Jia, Yongdeng Lei, Peijun Shi, Jing’ai Wang
    Pages 161-186

  8. Snow, Frost, and Hail Disasters in China

    • Jing’ai Wang, Yaojie Yue, Jingtao Zhao, Yuan Bai, Lili Lv, Peijun Shi et al.
    Pages 187-237

  9. Blown Sand Disasters in China

    • Lianyou Liu, Yanli Lyu, Wei Xu, Jing’ai Wang, Peijun Shi
    Pages 239-271

  10. Storm Surge Disasters in China

    • Weihua Fang, Fujiang Yu, Jianxi Dong, Xianwu Shi
    Pages 273-288
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This is the first English language book that systematically introduces the spatial and temporal patterns of major natural disasters in China from 1949 to 2014. It also reveals natural disaster formation mechanisms and processes, quantifies vulnerability to these disasters, evaluates disaster risks, summarizes the key strategies of integrated disaster risk governance, and analyzes large-scale disaster response cases in recent years in China. The book can be a good reference for researchers, students, and practitioners in the field of natural disaster risk management and risk governance for improving the understanding of natural disasters in China.

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  • Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China

    Peijun Shi

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Peijun Shi, a leading expert of natural disaster risk management in China, is the Academician of the China Science Center of International Eurasian Academy of Sciences, and was awarded the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars in 2004. He is the Deputy Director of the Expert Committee of China National Commission for Disaster Reduction and Director of the State Key Laboratory of Earth Surface Processes and Resource Ecology, Beijing Normal University. He has led more than 10 national research projects, including projects of the National Science and Technology Support Program and National Key Basic Research and Development Program, and published over 200 peer-reviewed journal articles and more than 30 books and atlases.

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