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Wulong County, Chongqing Municipality, Drought And Flood Disaster Management

Posted on:2006-09-10Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:H LiFull Text:PDF
GTID:2190360155455377Subject:Physical geography
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In managing the disasters, scientific field pays attention to the disaster factors, eg. Some countries have improved their ability of monitoring and predicting natural disaster factors by applying geographic information system. While the civil administration organs show great concern for damageableness of the community they govern. They have established regional disaster information data and taken different precautions again various disaster factors according to the property of damageableness. So the function of disaster management can be expressed by the following formula:Disaster Risk(loss) =Disaster Factor × Damageableness(disaster) /Disaster ManagementFrom the above formula, we can see that the more efficient the disaster management is, the smaller the disaster risk will be provided in the same incident and area. In a word, disaster management aims to influence on disaster by studying and employing all kinds of efficient methods. Then it helps to take precautions against and even reduce disasters so that the sustainable development of the society will be realized. Therefore, disaster management is of great significance in fighting disaster.The study of drought and flood management is one branch of disaster management, which targets defense, reduction, preparation, pre-warning, response and renovation as to drought and flood in meteorological disaster. Meteorological disaster is one of natural disasters caused by natural change or abnormal movement in atmosphere[5]. It features large quantities in categories, the most extensive areas and the deepest influence. The frequency of drought and flood ranks the top list among all natural disasters, which threatens the people's life and property severely.The situation in China is almost the same as that that in the world. Drought and flood influence most extensive areas and occur most frequently in China. The severe loss caused by drought flood ringed a heavy toll on Chinese people. It helped to speed up the study of drought and flood management and made it significant in reality to undertake this research as well. Besides it is also a worldwide trend to reduce disaster[8].The study of drought and flood management aims to adjust the relations...
Keywords/Search Tags:drought and flood management, Wulong County, disaster monitoring, disaster management, disaster evaluation
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