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Apr 26, 2012
A Critical Issue of Flood Management in China: Flash Flood, Landslide & Mudflow Disasters, Weakness in Defense, & Countermeasures
Publication: World Environmental and Water Resource Congress 2006: Examining the Confluence of Environmental and Water Concerns
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The rainfall-triggered flashflood, landslide and mudflow disasters are regarded as a part of flood disasters in China, and usually called "hilly disasters". Flood disasters are severe in China, not only cause heavy damages but also bring about many human casualties each year. However, the average human death caused by hilly disasters takes about 2/3 of the total human losses due to floods in recent years, and this has become an evident problem in flood disaster mitigation in the country. After analyzed the flood disasters, the hilly disasters, the present weakness in hilly disaster prevention, the author proposed 6 countermeasures, which are in urgent need to implement recently for reducing human losses caused by hilly disasters.
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© 2006 American Society of Civil Engineers.
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ASCE Technical Topics:
- Business management
- Climates
- Disaster risk management
- Disasters and hazards
- Environmental engineering
- Flash floods
- Floods
- Geohazards
- Geotechnical engineering
- Human and behavioral factors
- Landslides
- Meteorology
- Mitigation and remediation
- Natural disasters
- Practice and Profession
- Precipitation
- Rainfall
- Water and water resources
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Chief Engineer, Office of State Flood Control & Drought Relief Headquarters, Ministry of Water Resources, Beijing, P. O. Box 100053. E-mail: [email protected]
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