Overview
- 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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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Natural Disasters in China
Editors: Peijun Shi
Series Title: IHDP/Future Earth-Integrated Risk Governance Project Series
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-50270-9
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Beijing Normal University Press and Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-662-50268-6Published: 27 May 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-662-57051-7Published: 30 May 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-662-50270-9Published: 18 May 2016
Series ISSN: 2363-4979
Series E-ISSN: 2363-4987
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 288
Number of Illustrations: 141 b/w illustrations
Additional Information: Jointly published with Beijing Normal University Press, China
Topics: Natural Hazards, Earth System Sciences, Quality Control, Reliability, Safety and Risk