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.
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ContentsChapter 1 Background and Connotations 11.1 The Shared Silk Road 11.2 Disaster Impact 31.3 International Agreements on Disaster Risk Reduction 51.4 Opportunities and Challenges 12References 13Chapter 2 Environment 152.1 Disaster Fostering Environment 152.2 Spatial and Temporal Distribution of Disasters 292.3 Integrated Hazard Zonation 54References 57Chapter 3 Disaster Risk Assessment 613.1 Natural Hazards and Its Risks 613.2 Silk Road Disaster Risk Assessment 633.3 Regional Scale Disaster Risk Assessment 793.4 Assessment of Disaster Risks of Typical Community 893.5 Assessment of Disaster Risks to Infrastructure 94References 102Chapter 4 Risk Management 1054.1 From Disaster Management Towards Disaster Risk Management 1054.2 Challenges for Disaster Risk Management in the Silk Road Area 1074.3 A Disaster Risk Management Model for the Silk Road Area 1124.4 Cases Study 118References 139Chapter 5 Future Prospects 142Appendix I: Terms 145References 145Appendix II: Disaster Risk Assessment Methods 147References 166Appendix III: Methods of Integrated Hazard Zonation 169