Citation

Liu B, Fan J, Siu YL, Mitchell G. Environ. Plann. A 2019; 51(1): 8-10.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2019, SAGE Publishing)

DOI

10.1177/0308518X18791171

PMID

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Abstract

Since 1900, 35,000 natural hazard events have resulted in about eight million deaths worldwide, with about US$7 trillion in economic losses (Daniell et al., 2016). Conventional assessment focuses on individual hazards (see, e.g. Wei et al., 2015) but natural hazards do not exist in isolation. They may occur together, following a common cause (as in the case of heavy rain in northern Pakistan (2016) which produced both flood and landslide), or one hazard may induce another (as with the 2010 Tohoku Earthquake, Japan, which triggered a major Tsunami). The high frequency and intensity of such multiple hazards mean that attention should be given to multi-hazard assessment.

China experiences many types of natural hazards and also has a highly uneven distribution of population and economic activity. It is therefore critical that its natural hazard risk managers better understand the spatial distribution of multi-hazard. Therefore, nine natural hazards (comprising flood, drought, heat wave, cold wave, earthquake, landslide, storm, wildfire and avalanche) were addressed to draw a multi-hazard distribution map of China...

Language: en