Yang Zhang|Yansui Liu|Wenxiang Wu|Ning Li
Integrated risk assessment of multi-hazards in China
Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research|Chinese Academy of Sciences|Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research|Chinese Academy of Sciences|Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research|Chinese Academy of Sciences|Beijing Normal University
maps population exposure vulnerability risk natural hazards useful tools designing implementing disaster risk mitigation programs china ranking provinces relative risk natural hazards would provide metric prioritizing risk management strategies using provinces study unit perspectives hazard exposure susceptibility coping capacity adaptive capacity study first constructed chinas disaster risk index five types major natural hazards earthquakes floods droughts low temperaturessnow galehail relative risk level provincial scale china assessed finally hotspots highest hazard exposure vulnerability risk identified results showed high exposure significant risk driver china whereas high vulnerability especially social vulnerability amplified risk levels similar population exposure disasters relative risk levels southwestern central northeastern regions china significantly higher eastern northern western regions highrisk regions hotspots multihazards concentrated southern china lessdeveloped regions lowrisk regions mainly distributed eastern coastal areas welldeveloped regions furthermore nonlinear relationship existed disaster risk level poverty incidence well per capita gdp demonstrating disaster losses middleincome areas likely increase economic policies modified account rising disaster risk findings indicated research disaster risk focus hazards exposure also vulnerability natural disasters thus reducing vulnerability population exposure natural hazards would effective measure mitigating disaster risk hotspots china