Abstract
The coastland possess important strategic position, however, high-density population and fortune determine high vulnerability facing natural disasters due to special location. Based on the connotation of vulnerability, the article discusses the relationships among vulnerability, risk and loss, and concludes three main methods assessing vulnerability of natural disasters based on the historical natural disaster data, the indicator system and the stage-damage curve by investigation. Being different from the method based on the indicator system, the article assesses vulnerability of natural disasters referring to the ideas of international natural disasters risk assessment programmes and identifies social factors affecting vulnerability of natural disasters without taking into account natural factors by correlation analysis. The results shows that: population density, per capita output and GDP calculated in accordance with the land are the main elements which have a significant correlation with vulnerability. Finally, the article concludes the characteristics and regional differentiation rules of vulnerability in the coastland and analyzes the reasons of this phenomenon, in order to find out the origin of natural disaster vulnerability from the human society and to provide effective basis for insurance and decision-making of governments.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 148-153 |
| Number of pages | 6 |
| Journal | Zhongguo Renkou Ziyuan Yu Huan Jing/ China Population Resources and Environment |
| Volume | 19 |
| Issue number | 5 |
| State | Published - 2009 |
| Externally published | Yes |
Keywords
- Coastland
- DRI
- Disaster risk
- HOTSPOTS
- Natural disaster
- Vulnerability