Glance at the Silk Road Disaster Risk

Description

This book vividly shows the fostering environment, activity characteristics, distribution pattern, economic losses, casualties, disaster risks and management of earthquakes, mass movement, drought, floods, and marine disasters in the Silk Road region. It develops a multi-scale and multi-disaster risk assessment method to better assess and understand the Silk Road disaster risk. A multi-level collaborative risk management model has been proposed for transboundary disasters, and it also shares case studies on major disaster risk management. The book makes a major step forward to increase the understanding of the disaster risk of the Silk Road region. It presents a holistic understanding of the natural hazards and their induced disaster risks and is a valuable read for scholars, stakeholders and practitioners in the DRR community. Foreword Preface Contents 1 Background and Connotations 1.1 The Shared Silk Road 1.2 Disaster Impact 1.3 International Agreements on Disaster Risk Reduction 1.3.1 The 2015 UN Landmark Agreements 1.3.2 On the Linkages Among Global Frameworks 1.4 Opportunities and Challenges References 2 Environment 2.1 Disaster Fostering Environment 2.1.1 Geology and Geomorphology 2.1.2 Climate and Hydrology 2.1.3 Soil and Vegetation 2.1.4 Human Activities 2.2 Spatial and Temporal Distribution of Disasters 2.2.1 Earthquake 2.2.2 Mass Movement 2.2.3 Drought 2.2.4 Flood 2.2.5 Tsunami 2.3 Integrated Hazard Zonation 2.3.1 Assessment Method 2.3.2 Results References 3 Disaster Risk Assessment 3.1 Natural Hazard and Its Risk 3.1.1 Concept of Disaster Risks 3.1.2 Disaster Risk Assessment at Different Scales 3.2 Silk Road Disaster Risk Assessment 3.2.1 Integrated Disaster Risk Assessment 3.2.2 Earthquake Risk Assessment 3.2.3 Mass Movement Risk Assessment 3.2.4 Drought Risk Assessment 3.2.5 Flood Risk Assessment 3.2.6 Maritime Shipping Risk Assessment 3.3 Regional Scale Disaster Risk Assessment 3.3.1 Landslide Risk Assessment for the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor 3.3.2 Assessment of Disaster Risks on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau 3.3.3 Assessment of Earthquake Risks of Buildings on the Iranian Plateau 3.3.4 Regional Drought Risk Assessment 3.4 Assessment of Disaster Risks of Typical Community 3.4.1 Assessment of the Risk of a Simultaneous Disaster: Qingping Township, Sichuan Province, China 3.4.2 Participatory Disaster Risk Assessment: An Assessment of Debris Flow Risk in Houba Village, Wudu District, Gansu Province, China 3.5 Assessment of Disaster Risks to Infrastructure 3.5.1 Mass Movement Disaster Risk Assessment for the Araniko Highway Between China and Nepal 3.5.2 Susceptibility Assessment of Mass Movements of the Diamer-Bhasha Dam on the Indus River References 4 Risk Management 4.1 From Disaster Management Towards Disaster Risk Management 4.2 Challenges for Disaster Risk Management in the Silk Road Area 4.2.1 Disaster Risk Management at the Present Stage 4.2.2 Challenges in Disaster Risk Management 4.3 A Disaster Risk Management Model for the Silk Road Area 4.3.1 Basic Principles and Theories 4.3.2 Characteristics and Contents of This Mode 4.3.3 Conclusions 4.4 Cases Study 4.4.1 Flood Control and Disaster Risk Management in the Netherlands 4.4.2 Risk Management After the Wenchuan Earthquake References 5 Future Prospects Appendix A Terms Appendix B Disaster Risk Assessment Methods References Appendix C Method of Integrated Hazard Zonation