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Peijun Shi Editor Natural Disasters in China IHDP/Future Earth-Integrated Risk Governance Project Series Peijun Shi Editor Natural Disasters in China 123 IHDP/Future Earth-Integrated Risk Governance Project Series Series editors Carlo Jaeger, Potsdam, Germany Peijun Shi, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China About this Series This book series, entitled “IHDP/Future Earth—Integrated Risk Governance Project Series” for the International Human Dimensions Programme on Global Environmental Change—Integrated Risk Governance Project (IHDP/Future Earth —IRG Project), is intended to present in monograph form the most recent scientific achievements in the identification, evaluation and management of emerging global large-scale risks. Future Earth is a flagship initiative of the Science and Technology Alliance for Global Sustainability. It aims to provide critical knowledge required for societies to understand and address challenges posed by global environmental change (GEC) and to seize opportunities for transitions to global sustainability. Future Earth identifies three research themes, i.e., Dynamic Planet, Global Development and Transition toward Sustainability in its plan and adopts a new approach of “Co-designing and co-producing” to incorporate GEC researchers with stakeholders in governments, industry and business, international or intergovern- mental organizations, and civil society. Books published in this series are mainly collected research works on theories, methods, models and modeling, and case analyses conducted by scientists from various disciplines and practitioners from various sectors under the IHDP/Future Earth—IRG Project. It includes the IRG Project Science Plan, research on social-ecological system responses, “Entry and Exit Transition” mechanisms, models and modeling, early warning systems, understanding regional dynamics of vulnerability, as well as case comparison studies of large-scale disasters and paradigms for integrated risk governance around the world. This book series, therefore, will be of interest not only to researchers, educators and students working in this field but also to policy-makers and decision-makers in government, industry and civil society around the world. The series will be contributed by the international research teams working on the six scientific themes identified by the IHDP/Future Earth—IRG Project Science Plan, i.e., Social-Ecological Systems, Entry and Exit Transitions, Early Warning Systems, Models and Modeling, Comparative Case Studies, and Governance and Paradigms, and by six regional offices of the IRG Project around the world. More information about this series at http://www.springer.com/series/13536 Peijun Shi Editor Natural Disasters in China 123 Editor Peijun Shi Beijing Normal University Beijing China ISSN 2363-4979 ISSN 2363-4987 (electronic) IHDP/Future Earth-Integrated Risk Governance Project Series ISBN 978-3-662-50268-6 ISBN 978-3-662-50270-9 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-3-662-50270-9 Jointly published with Beijing Normal University Press ISBN: 978-7-303-20273-7 Beijing Normal University Press Library of Congress Control Number: 2016939359 © Beijing Normal University Press and Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2016 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved by the Publishers, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. The publishers, the authors and the editors are safe to assume that the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication. Neither the publishers nor the authors or the editors give a warranty, express or implied, with respect to the material contained herein or for any errors or omissions that may have been made. Printed on acid-free paper This Springer imprint is published by Springer Nature The registered company is Springer-Verlag GmbH Berlin Heidelberg Preface Catastrophes that are beyond the coping capability of current social-ecological systems are occurring at an increasing pace in recent years. Examples are the devastating Hurricane Katrina occurred in the United States in 2005, the extreme low-temperature freezing rain and snow disaster in southern China in 2008, the Wenchuan Earthquake in Sichuan, China in 2008, and the Great Eastern Japan Earthquake and Tsunami in 2011. These catastrophes brought great challenges to existing disaster planning, response, and management, as well as to post-disaster reconstruction efforts. As a result, questions such as how to reduce disaster risks and cope with catastrophes more effectively have caught widespread attention of scientific communities, governments, and societies both at home and abroad. In order to strengthen the innovation capability of scientific disciplines, the Chinese government, through the Ministry of Education (MOE) and the State Administration of Foreign Experts Affairs (SAFEA), organized and implemented the Expertise-Introduction Project for Disciplinary Innovation of Universities (the “111 Project”) that aims at building capacities of Chinese higher education institutions and facilitating their transformation into world-class universities. The project’s overall goal is to develop about 100 world-class research and education bases for introducing talents of various disciplines through building high-level research teams formed by some 1,000 leading overseas scholars and researchers introduced from the world’s top 100 universities and key research groups of research institutions, and is based on the platforms of national, provincial, and ministerial level key scientific research bases. It focuses on cutting-edge research areas internationally and national key disciplinary development goals, and priori- tizes disciplines in universities that have a leading position internationally or dis- ciplines that are priority support areas in national plans. The Hazard and Risk Science Base (HRSB) at Beijing Normal University is one of the projects under the “111 Project.” In the third batch of the “111 Project,” the Hazard and Risk Science Base of Beijing Normal University was approved officially at the end of 2007 and imple- mented from the beginning of 2008, with an execution period between 2008 and v vi Preface 2012. Peijun Shi and Roger Kasperson were appointed as the chief professors for the project. The project involved a large number of renowned scientists in the disaster risk field worldwide, including David Alexander, Joanne Bayer, Colin Green, Guoyi Han, Saburo Ikeda, Carlo Jaeger, Gordon McGranahan, Dennis Ojima, Norio Okada, Nick Pidgeon, Bonnie Ram, Andreas Rechkemmer, Ortwin Renn, Charles Scawthorn, Paul Slovic, Hirokazu Tatano, Kathleen Tierney, Brain Walker, and Qian Ye. Wenjie Dong, Yuan Jiang, Ning Li, Lianyou Liu, Jing’ai Wang, Weihua Fang, Wei Xu, Ying Li, Juan Du, Ming Wang, Saini Yang, Tao Ye, Deyong Yu, Yaojie Yue, and Zhao Zhang also participated in this project. In September 2012, the second 5-year phase of the project (2013–2017) was also approved. We completed this compiled volume, Natural Disasters in China, under the scientific framework developed through discussions and field research and investigations jointly performed by Chinese and invited international experts, based on a systematic review of existing research on natural disaster risks by Chinese experts, under the support of this project. In the course of project implementation, we mainly carried out the following three activities: First, we organized the Summer Institute for Advanced Study of Disaster and Risk for 5 years, and selected Ph.D. candidates, postdoctoral researchers, and other young scholars who are engaged in the research of disaster risks both in China and internationally to participate. Together with internationally renowned scholars in this field, the summer institute participants discussed the cutting-edge research areas in the field of disaster and risk study, essentials of the discipline, and major theoretical and practical issues in integrated disaster risk governance. The summer institute over 5 years has recruited more than 60 young international scholars and 120 young scholars in China, which helped develop the capacity of young scholars in conducting disaster risk research. Second, five annual international seminars on the integrated disaster risk gov- ernance in China were held in Beijing, and three short field research and investi- gations were conducted during the project period. These activities aimed at thoroughly understanding the status of integrated disaster risk research and sys- tematically reviewing the achievements obtained from such research in China, understanding the spatiotemporal trends of disaster risks in the process of rapid economic growth, and introducing the Chinese experiences in and lessons learned from integrated disaster risk governance to the colleagues from other countries. The short field research and investigations in different years focused on integrated approaches for combating drought and sandstorms in Ordos, Inner Mongolian Autonomous
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