Contents
Chapter 1 Background and Connotations 1
1.1 The Shared Silk Road 1
1.2 Disaster Impact 3
1.3 International Agreements on Disaster Risk Reduction 5
1.4 Opportunities and Challenges 12
References 13
Chapter 2 Environment 15
2.1 Disaster Fostering Environment 15
2.2 Spatial and Temporal Distribution of Disasters 29
2.3 Integrated Hazard Zonation 54
References 57
Chapter 3 Disaster Risk Assessment 61
3.1 Natural Hazards and Its Risks 61
3.2 Silk Road Disaster Risk Assessment 63
3.3 Regional Scale Disaster Risk Assessment 79
3.4 Assessment of Disaster Risks of Typical Community 89
3.5 Assessment of Disaster Risks to Infrastructure 94
References 102
Chapter 4 Risk Management 105
4.1 From Disaster Management Towards Disaster Risk Management 105
4.2 Challenges for Disaster Risk Management in the Silk Road Area 107
4.3 A Disaster Risk Management Model for the Silk Road Area 112
4.4 Cases Study 118
References 139
Chapter 5 Future Prospects 142
Appendix I: Terms 145
References 145
Appendix II: Disaster Risk Assessment Methods 147
References 166
Appendix III: Methods of Integrated Hazard Zonation 169