19 May 2022
Disaster-preventive migration (DPM) is an important method for disaster risk management, but migration itself entails a potential social stability risk. This study took County D in Yunnan Province, one of the counties most severely threatened by geol...
15 March 2021
Climate change risk has become an important challenge for global sustainable development. The insurance industry can play an important role in coping with the increasingly severe climate change risk. This paper first describes the increasing climate...
3 November 2018
Urban disaster risk assessment is the most basic and important part of urban safety development. Conducting disaster prevention and mitigation on the basis of urban disaster risk assessment requires an understanding of the relationship between the ci...
A comprehensive risk assessment of different types of natural disasters at the county level can promote quantitative disaster risk assessment and can provide a scientific basis for the formulation of disaster prevention measures. Focusing on climate-...
In recent years, with the acceleration of urbanization and the frequent occurrence of extreme weather globally, the risk of urban flood disasters has gradually increased, and its potential consequences are immeasurable. Therefore, conducting risk ass...
To address the challenges in risk prevention and control of post-earthquake gas explosions in high-rise buildings and the deficiencies of traditional methods in handling uncertainty, this paper conducts a risk evolution analysis from the perspectives...
Flood disasters caused by typhoon rainfall seriously threaten regional social and economic development. Accurately assessing the risk of typhoons and their secondary disasters is a great challenge in disaster prevention and reduction. To address this...
Snow disasters are severe natural hazards in Jilin Province, China. This research formulated a holistic risk assessment framework which integrates the factors of hazardousness, sensitivity, vulnerability, and disaster prevention and mitigation capaci...
As one of the key vehicles to integrating culture and tourism in urban and rural development, cultural tourism-oriented characteristic towns are increasingly facing natural and social disaster risks caused by global climate variability, large-scale e...
The capacity of local governments to act as frontline disaster management agencies is crucial to urban sustainability and disaster risk management systems. However, vulnerabilities in the management systems can hinder the effectiveness of disaster ri...
Understanding and measuring the relative risk level of a city facing multi-hazards is fundamental to improving its disaster prevention planning and schemes. A comprehensive risk evaluation approach stands at the intersection of risk management and di...
Peanut growth in Shandong Province, a major peanut-producing area in China, is greatly affected by drought. The present study uses hierarchical analysis, weighted comprehensive evaluation, and ArcGIS spatial analysis to conduct spatial zoning of pean...
3 February 2015
Desertification is a typical disaster risk event in which human settlements and living environments are destroyed. Desertification Disaster Risk Assessment can control and prevent the occurrence and development of desertification disasters and reduce...
22 February 2021
Individual perception of disaster risk is not only the product of individual factors, but also the product of social interactions. However, few studies have empirically explored the correlations between rural residents’ flat social networks, trust in...
In the context of global warming, meteorological disasters occur more frequently in various regions which exert increasing influences on human life. Snow disasters are some of the natural disasters that most seriously affect the development of husban...
Snow disasters constitute a major natural hazard in Northwestern China, where heavy snowfall, blowing snow, and avalanches pose significant threats to infrastructure and socioeconomic activities. A scientific assessment of regional snow disaster risk...
7 February 2023
Cities evolve and change with economic development and population growth, and urban planning laws in Taiwan have regulations that should be comprehensively reviewed every six years. Most current government policies aim to add new disaster prevention...
Inner Mongolia is the dominant spring wheat production area in northern China and a core commodity grain supply base. Against the background of global warming, meteorological disasters, such as drought, dry-hot winds, and frost, are occurring more fr...
Constructing a precise and effective evaluation index system is crucial to flood disaster prevention and management in coastal areas. This study takes Lucheng District, Wenzhou City, Zhejiang Province, southeastern China, as a case study and construc...
The impact of global climate change is gradually intensifying, and the frequent occurrence of meteorological disasters poses a serious challenge to crop production. Analyzing and evaluating agricultural multi-hazard meteorological disaster risks base...
The frequent occurrence of meteorological disasters in China has caused huge losses to agriculture. Risk assessment serves as a bridge from disaster crisis management to disaster risk management. Therefore, it is necessary to carry out a refined comp...
Frequent grassland fires have severely affected regional ecosystems as well as the production and living conditions of local residents. Grassland fire prevention capabilities constitute an integral part of the disaster prevention and mitigation syste...
In response to the adverse effects of climate change-induced frequent extreme disasters on agricultural production and supply stability, this study develops a comprehensive agricultural disaster prevention system based on current adaptation strategie...
Flood control risk is one of the main risks affecting the safe operation of large-scale water transfer projects. Systematically identifying the flood control risk in the project and carrying out risk classification and hierarchical management are pro...
Refined urban flood risk assessment serves as a fundamental safeguard for urban sustainability. However, most studies based on scenario analysis method tend to rely on a single risk evaluation criterion, with limited consideration of applicability di...
Flash flood is one of the extremely destructive natural disasters in the world. In recent years, extreme rainfall events caused by global climate change have increased, and flash flood disasters are becoming the main types of natural disasters in the...
This study focuses on 28 mining cities with the aim of promoting their sustainable development, particularly with regard to disaster resilience. The entropy-weight Technique for Order of Preference by Similarity to Ideal Solution (TOPSIS) model is ad...
The coal mine in deep mining can easily form a compound dynamic disaster with the characteristics of rock burst and gas outburst. In this paper, the analytic hierarchy process (AHP) and the entropy weight method (EWM) are combined, and the fuzzy comp...
Corn thrips do serious harm to the yield and quality of corn. In this paper, the Shandong Province of China was taken as the study area. Based on the data of the occurrence of corn thrips in Shandong Province, a risk regionalization model was establi...
Climate change poses substantial threats to natural ecosystems and human livelihoods, particularly in coastal regions, by intensifying coastal erosion. This process leads to land loss, infrastructure damage, and habitat destruction while amplifying c...
4 October 2021
In recent years, the main kiwifruit producing region, central-south Shaanxi Province, has often suffered from the threat of extreme high temperatures. Assessing the risk of high-temperature disasters in the region is essential for the rational planni...
1 September 2022
Background: Since the Great East Japan Earthquake (GEJE), numerous studies have been conducted, but no comprehensive review study has been carried out. Thus, this literature review aimed to examine how the GEJE might affect suicide and suicidal behav...
Within the framework of economic globalisation, ports serve as critical junctures in international trade and play a vital role. However, as infrastructure is closely linked to the natural environment, ports are highly susceptible to the impacts of me...
Accurately assessing the risk of flash floods is a fundamental prerequisite for defending against flash flood disasters. The existing methods for assessing flash flood risk are constrained by unclear key factors and challenges in elucidating disaster...
The risk of debris flow comprehensively reflects both the natural and social attributes of debris flow disasters, composed of the hazard of debris flow and the vulnerability of the bearing body. The geological environment of the Kashgar-to-Khunjerab...
The rapid development of underground engineering contributes significantly to achieving China’s “dual carbon” strategic goals. However, during the construction and operation phases, this engineering project faces diverse risks and c...
The Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, a vital strategic geographic entity in southern China, is prone to frequent road collapse disasters due to its complex topography and high rainfall, severely affecting regional economic and social development. Ex...
Evaluating and improving community disaster risk reduction capacity (CDRRC) is a crucial concern in the theory and application of urban catastrophe management. Nonetheless, current evaluation frameworks frequently concentrate on a solitary discipline...
Natural disasters present a significant challenge to the productivity of Zhejiang Province. This paper is the first to evaluate social vulnerability to natural disasters in Zhejiang Province and provides a scientific foundation for disaster preventio...
Against the backdrop of global warming and rising sea levels coupled with increasing urbanization, flood risks for plain cities have intensified. This study takes Liaocheng City as its research object and constructs a regional flood risk assessment m...
Qinglong Gorge Scenic Area (QGSA) boasts stunning natural landscapes, characterized by towering peaks and extensive cliffs. Nevertheless, the intricate geological backdrop and distinctive topographical conditions of this area give rise to various geo...
The increasing frequency and intensity of urban floods, driven by rapid urbanization and global climate change, underscore the importance of risk assessment in supporting effective disaster mitigation and prevention. A scientific, accurate, and detai...
Landslide risk assessment can quantify the potential damage caused by landslides to disaster-bearing bodies, which can help to reduce casualties and economic losses. It is not only a tool for disaster prevention and mitigation, but also a key step to...
As a major agricultural province of China, Shandong province has long ranked first in agricultural growth value among all of the provinces; at the same time, it is also the province that is most affected by dry-hot wind. Therefore, it is of great sig...
The Tarim River Basin is an important grain and cotton base in Xinjiang, China. Indeed, cotton production in this basin accounts for one-third of the total cotton production in China. The Tarim River Basin is characterized also by the presence of for...
Utilizing the best typhoon track data, district and county scale disaster data in Jilin Province, meteorological data, and geographical data, the combined weighting method of AHP-EWM (Analytic Hierarchy Process–Entropy Weight Method) and game t...
Losses from floods and the wide range of impacts have been at the forefront of hazard-triggered disasters in China. Affected by large-scale human activities and the environmental evolution, China’s defense flood situation is undergoing signific...
The Lancang–Mekong Region encompasses six countries, covering an area exceeding five million square kilometers and containing a population of more than 400 million. Floods in this region may cause extremely serious losses of lives and property....
To address the uncertainties in emergency shelter siting under compound disaster scenarios, based on the connotative characteristics and formation mechanisms of urban natural hazards, a hazard assessment system for geological and flood disasters was...
7 December 2022
Floods are one of the most common natural disasters that can cause considerable economic damage and loss of life in many regions of the world. Urban flood risk assessment is important for urban flood control, disaster reduction, and risk management....
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