Exploring the characteristics of major natural disasters in China and their impacts during the past decades

Natural Hazards

Volumn 69, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 829-843

  Zhou, Yang ^a   Li, Ning ^a   Wu, Wenxiang ^b   Wu, Jidong ^a   Gu, Xiaotian ^a   Ji, Zhonghui ^a  

^a BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHIC SCIENCES AND NATURAL RESOURCES RESEARCH   (China)

Author keywords

China; Impacts; Losses expressed as a percentage of GDP (losses GDP); Natural disasters (NDs); Numbers of disasters

Indexed keywords

DISASTER MANAGEMENT; ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; ECONOMIC IMPACT; GROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCT; NATURAL DISASTER; SOCIOECONOMIC IMPACT;

CHINA;

EID: 84884901440     PISSN: 0921030X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11069-013-0738-3     Document Type: Article

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