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Due to complicated climatic and geographic conditions, China remains severely vulnerable to frequent, wide-scale natural disasters. We analyzed the impact of natural disasters on human security, agriculture safety and economic security over the past 30 years. The results reveal the high vulnerability of China’s economic system to natural disasters. Moreover, climate warming will further exacerbate the vulnerability of its social-economic development system to natural disasters and increase its risks. China needs to implement a comprehensive strategy of disaster reduction for sustainable development and include integrated disaster risk management in its policies. Doing so will reduce the vulnerability of China’s socio-economic development system of natural disasters.
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Professor Hu Huanyong was a forefather of modern Chinese demography and the founder of China’s population geography. He drew the “Aihui-Tengchong Line,” which was known internationally as the “Hu Line,” in 1934; the line marked a striking difference in the distribution of China’s population.
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This was the official population count at the end of 2007.
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Wei, YM., Jin, JL., Wang, Q. (2015). Impacts of Natural Disasters and Disaster Risk Management in China: The Case of China’s Experience in the Wenchuan Earthquake. In: Aldrich, D., Oum, S., Sawada, Y. (eds) Resilience and Recovery in Asian Disasters. Risk, Governance and Society, vol 18. Springer, Tokyo. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-4-431-55022-8_14
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