Natural Disaster's Impact Evaluation of Rural Households’ Vulnerability: The case of Wenchuan earthquake

Sun, Mengjie; Baofeng, Chen; Ren, Jingyao; Chang, T. J.

doi:10.1016/j.aaspro.2010.09.007

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“…According to the Chinese government's new poverty line standard [11] from a sample survey of severely affected counties, the poverty incidence in poor villages in 2007 was 34%, the poverty depth was 29%, and the poverty severity was 92% [12]. Based on the total population of 4834 poor villages, the number of poverty-stricken people is 1.46 million.…”

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“…To improve the conditions of the infrastructure of rural roads, bridges, culverts, and the resilience of public facilities such as schools and hospitals, a series of activities were carried out. For example, disaster emergency shelters were built; disaster relief materials were distributed; disaster prevention and mitigation education were invested in; and training publicity and drills of disaster prevention and mitigation, were carried out [11,15]. All of these activities improved farmers' awareness of disaster prevention and mitigation and disaster response.…”

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The Impact of Earthquake on Poverty: Learning from the 12 May 2008 Wenchuan Earthquake

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How to combine disaster prevention and mitigation, post-disaster reconstruction and poverty alleviation has become a new hot issue. On 12 May 2008, a major earthquake devastated the Wenchuan area in Sichuan Province in the heartland of China. After ten-years have passed, it is a good time to review what we learned from the Great Wenchuan earthquake. The impact of Wenchuan earthquake on poverty-stricken counties, poverty-stricken villages, and poverty-stricken households was analyzed. Suggestions for improving the method of combining disaster prevention, post-disaster reconstruction, and poverty alleviation were proposed. The results from this research could serve as an important reference for formulation of the poverty alleviation and development program after a major earthquake.Sustainability 2018, 10, 4704 2 of 15 number of poor people affected by the earthquake in Sichuan reached 2.1 million, and the poverty-stricken population due to the earthquake was nearly 3.7 million [7].The objective of this study is two-fold: (1) to analyze the impact of Wenchuan Earthquake on poverty, and (2) to summarize and reflect the poverty alleviation model after the earthquake. These contributions may provide new insights into the disaster prevention and mitigation/disaster reconstruction and poverty alleviation in China.

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The Impact of Earthquake on Poverty: Learning from the 12 May 2008 Wenchuan Earthquake

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“…Direct ground shaking and co-seismic geohazards resulted in widespread damage (Tang et al 2011) with total economic loss estimated at 110 billion USD (Xie et al 2009). The destruction of major infrastructure, transport routes and rural towns, including Old Beichuan Town near the centre of the LFZ (Figure 1), decimated rural economies (Sun et al 2010).…”

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Regional assessment of geohazard recovery eight years after the Mw7.9 Wenchuan earthquake: a remote-sensing investigation of the Beichuan region

Liu

Mason

Bryant

2017

International Journal of Remote Sensing

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The earthquake of 12 th May 2008 in Wenchuan County, Sichuan Province, China, devastated the entire Beichuan region. Sitting at the intersection of the Yingxiu-Beichuan and Pengguan faults, the region experienced seismic intensities of VIII-XI on the Liedu scale. High seismic intensity combined with inherent geomorphological and climatic susceptibility to slope failure, resulted in widespread co-seismic geohazards (slope failures of various types) which decimated the region. The seismic characteristics of the Wenchuan earthquake and the co-seismic geohazard distribution in relation to various conditioning factors have previously been examined in depth. However, there has been a lack of regional assessment of temporal and spatial recovery from co-seismic geohazards. Triggered by the authors' field observation of rapid recovery, tThis study presents a temporal series of geohazard maps, produced by manual interpretation of satellite imagery, to present an initial assessment of changes in geohazard occurrence in the Beichuan region since the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake. In particular, landscape recovery at the co-seismic geohazard sites, as indicated by re-vegetation, is analysed based on temporal/spatial characteristics of geohazard distribution, in relation to co-seismic deformation, distance from rupture zone and slope angle. Eight years after the Wenchuan earthquake, overall recovery stands at 65.48%, with approximately uniform annual rates of recovery at 13.45% a year between 2009 and 2011 and 10.56% a year between 2012 and 2016. Whilst co-seismic geohazards are concentrated on the hanging wall of the seismic fault, landscape recovery is more significant in the very highly deformed zone than in other areas. Recovery has been greatest on slopes of <50  and peaks on 40 -50  slopes where the area occupied by co-seismic geohazards was the largest. The block-slides and rock topples, which characterise high angle slopes, show much slower recovery, possibly due to greater instability and the lack of soil to support re-vegetation.

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“…The reason most often cited is that they fear loss of property. This inflexible attitude often results in people experiencing the devastating effects of natural disasters[44]. When tropical cyclone Sidr struck the south west coast of Bangladesh with winds up to 240 kilometers per hour, the resulting widespread flooding caused damage to homes, roads and bridges, sanitation infrastructure, interrupted electrical service and downed communications.…”

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Effect of Natural Disasters and Their Coping Strategies in the Kuakata Coastal Belt of Patuakhali Bangladesh

Alam¹,

Halsey²,

Haque³

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Bangladesh has experienced a number of severe natural disasters. Most recently, tropical storms Aila, Sidr and Mohaseen have affected the Kuakata coastal belt. These natural disasters have had substantial negative impacts on natural resources. Development of coping strategies for the protection of natural resources across this belt is significantly important. The present research is focused on the effects of tropical storms on crops, humans, fish, livestock and infrastructure. There were 99 fatalities recorded during the Sidr and Aila natural disasters. These disasters impacted 910.94 ha (Sidr) and 973.69 ha (Aila) of cropland. The total number of affected livestock and fishes such as, 18,200 fish ponds, 1209 cattle, 3324 goats, 6888 chickens, 1716 ducks, 103 buffalo and 144 sheep. After tropical cyclones of Sidr, Aila, Heavy rainstorms and Mohaseen 12,970, 17,703, 10,050 and 2500 households respectively reported some form of damage. Cattle, goat, chicken and buffalo were found more injured than other livestock due to the natural disasters of Sidr. Temperature and wind speed were both found to be statistically significant (p ≤ 0.05) with humidity. Climatic parameters trend has been increased significantly since 1979. Regular monitoring of climatic variables, preparedness activities, and coping strategies would be significantly important for this coastal communities.

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Natural Disaster's Impact Evaluation of Rural Households’ Vulnerability: The case of Wenchuan earthquake

Cited by 22 publications

References 5 publications

The Impact of Earthquake on Poverty: Learning from the 12 May 2008 Wenchuan Earthquake

The Impact of Earthquake on Poverty: Learning from the 12 May 2008 Wenchuan Earthquake

Regional assessment of geohazard recovery eight years after the Mw7.9 Wenchuan earthquake: a remote-sensing investigation of the Beichuan region

Effect of Natural Disasters and Their Coping Strategies in the Kuakata Coastal Belt of Patuakhali Bangladesh

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