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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Contents Chapter 1 Background and Connotations 1 1.1 The Shared Silk Road 1 1.2 Disaster Impact 3 1.3 International Agreements on Disaster Risk Reduction 5 1.4 Opportunities and Challenges 12 References 13 Chapter 2 Environment 15 2.1 Disaster Fostering Environment 15 2.2 Spatial and Temporal Distribution of Disasters 29 2.3 Integrated Hazard Zonation 54 References 57 Chapter 3 Disaster Risk Assessment 61 3.1 Natural Hazards and Its Risks 61 3.2 Silk Road Disaster Risk Assessment 63 3.3 Regional Scale Disaster Risk Assessment 79 3.4 Assessment of Disaster Risks of Typical Community 89 3.5 Assessment of Disaster Risks to Infrastructure 94 References 102 Chapter 4 Risk Management 105 4.1 From Disaster Management Towards Disaster Risk Management 105 4.2 Challenges for Disaster Risk Management in the Silk Road Area 107 4.3 A Disaster Risk Management Model for the Silk Road Area 112 4.4 Cases Study 118 References 139 Chapter 5 Future Prospects 142 Appendix I: Terms 145 References 145 Appendix II: Disaster Risk Assessment Methods 147 References 166 Appendix III: Methods of Integrated Hazard Zonation 169