Overview
- Outlines an historical approach for analyzing the regional dynamics of vulnerability, making insights from vulnerability analysis more relevant for policy making
- Offers a critical examination of the fundamental dilemmas and plausible future pathways for future flood risk management in China in the context of rapid social economic transition and climate change
- Presents a regional study of the Dongting Lake area
Part of the book series: IHDP/Future Earth-Integrated Risk Governance Project Series (IHDP-FEIRG)
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Keywords
- Disaster Resilience
- Dongting Lake Area
- Flood Risk Analysis
- Floods Natural Disasters
- Food Risk
- Historical Approach
- Vulnerability
About this book
Focusing on dynamic changes in regional vulnerability to flooding and its relevance for flood risk management, it proposes a new construct of vulnerability based on the co-variance between the negative (exposure) and positive (response capacity) components. Further, it develops an historical approach, including trajectory analysis and a typology of vulnerability, offering insights into the regional dynamics of change. It is a valuable resource for disaster risk researchers and graduate students as well as flood management practitioners and policy-makers.
Guoyi Han is a senior research fellow at the Stockholm Environment Institute in Sweden; both Associate Professor Ying Li and Professor Peijun Shi work at the Beijing Normal University in China.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Understanding the Regional Dynamics of Vulnerability
Book Subtitle: A Historical Approach to the Flood Problem in China
Authors: Guoyi Han, Ying Li, Peijun Shi
Series Title: IHDP/Future Earth-Integrated Risk Governance Project Series
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Beijing Normal University Press and Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany 2024
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-662-53764-0Due: 11 August 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-3-662-53766-4Due: 11 August 2024
Series ISSN: 2363-4979
Series E-ISSN: 2363-4987
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: 150
Number of Illustrations: 50 b/w illustrations, 5 illustrations in colour