China Disaster Reduction and Sustainable Development - China's General Program for Sustainable Development (Volume 18)

Author: Wang Angsheng
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Publish Date: 2007-01-01
Features: This book is Volume 18 of the General Outline of China's Sustainable Development. It introduces important natural disasters in the world over the past millennium and in China over the past 2,000 years, with a particular focus on major disasters in China in the past 50 years, as well as the overall situation where these disasters severely constrain sustainable social development. It explains the severity of disaster threats to human survival and national existence; disaster monitoring and early warning, engineering disaster reduction, and disaster management; the "International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction" and the "International Strategy for Disaster Reduction"; and the key development directions of global disaster reduction—modern disaster reduction systems and frameworks. The chapters on the application of satellites in disaster reduction, artificial weather modification, and disaster numerical simulation each have unique characteristics; the safe disaster reduction and emergency response system is the comprehensive development trend of global disaster reduction efforts. This book compiles the author and his domestic and international colleagues' decades of important research achievements; major disaster prevention and reduction achievements and events in the world, especially in China; and provides in-depth reflections and prospects for global disaster reduction, proposing a series of major strategic recommendations. This book can serve as a reference for decision-makers, planners, and managers at all levels, as well as researchers from various international organizations, domestic research institutions, enterprises, and university teachers and students engaged in theoretical and practical research on sustainable development. At the same time, as one of the major literature collections of the General Outline of China's Sustainable Development, it will become an ideal choice for book collections both domestically and internationally.