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From January 10 to February 6 of 2008, the large-scale sleet & snow weather occurred in southern China for five times successively. The disastrous weather happened to coincide with the Spring Festival travel rush during the traditional Spring Festival in China, with most of the regions happened once in 50 years and some of the regions happened once in 100 years (Academy of Disaster Reduction and Emergency Management at Peking Normal University, co-funded by the Ministry of Civil Affairs and the Ministry of Education 2008).
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Shi, P., Fang, W., Dong, W., Li, N., Xu, W., Chen, S. (2013). Experience, Lessons and Recommendations of China’s Response to Sleet & Snow Disaster in South. In: Shi, P., Jaeger, C., Ye, Q. (eds) Integrated Risk Governance. IHDP-Integrated Risk Governance Project Series. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-31641-8_7
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