While earthquake is obviously a natural phenomenon, seismic disaster is a social event. In terms of Hu Huangyong’s line, the paper divides the Chinese mainland into two parts: eastern region and western region, and p...
The article summarizes the achievements of the International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction (IDNDR) and briefs the International Strategy of Disaster Reduction (ISDR) which is being carried out on a global scal...
The 2nd UN World Conference on Disaster Reduction convened in July 1999 proposed the "Geneva Strategy", which highlighted the need that disaster reduction should be focused on cities and communities in the 21st Centur...
This paper analyzes the agricultural impacts of meteorological disasters, such as flood and drought, and biological disasters such as crop diseases, insect pests, weeds and rodents; and elaborates that efficacious dev...