Natural disasters in China: 1900-2011

Natural Hazards

Volumn 69, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 1597-1605

  Chen, Sha ^a   Luo, Zhongkui ^b   Pan, Xubin ^c  

^a National Disaster Reduction Center of China   (China)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

^c CHINESE ACADEMY OF INSPECTION AND QUARANTINE   (China)

Author keywords

Drought; Earthquake; Economic development; Epidemic; Extreme temperature; Flood; Mass movement wet; Storm

Indexed keywords

CATASTROPHIC EVENT; DROUGHT; ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; EXTREME EVENT; FLOOD; GROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCT; HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE; MASS MOVEMENT; NATURAL DISASTER; STORM; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

CHINA;

EID: 84888640318     PISSN: 0921030X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11069-013-0765-0     Document Type: Article

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