An international program on Silk Road Disaster Risk Reduction–a Belt and Road initiative (2016–2020)

Lei, Yu; Cui, Peng; Regmi, Amar Deep; Murray, Virginia; Pasuto, Alessandro; Titti, Giacomo; Shafique, Muhammad; Priyadarshana, Tilak

doi:10.1007/s11629-018-4842-4

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“…As one of the world's fastest-growing markets and one of the least well known (Vinayak, Fraser, and Oliver 2014), the outlook for Southeast Asia's economies is promising if investment can be smoothly carried out. However, Southeast Asia is highly prone to disasters (Lei et al 2018). Although a few developed countries (such as Italy) are starting to sign a memorandum of understanding with China on the BRI, the majority of BRI countries are still less developed.…”

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Flood risk assessment using the CV-TOPSIS method for the Belt and Road Initiative: an empirical study of Southeast Asia

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Instruction: The countries along the Belt and Road Initiative remain high exposure and vulnerability to climate extremes. Southeast Asia, a significant part of the Belt and Road Initiative, suffers a lot from flood disasters. This study assessed the flood disaster risk from 1990-2015 in all 11 Southeast Asian countries. A model integrating the coefficient of variation approach and the Technique for Order Preference by Similarity to Ideal Solution method was introduced to analyze the flood disaster data. Considering that populations living in areas where elevation is below 5 m and land area where elevation is below 5 m have reached 11.86% and 3.54% (2015), respectively, the two indicators were opted for to propose new metrics for flood disaster risk assessment. Outcomes: Our findings show that the flood disaster risk in Southeast Asia appeared very high during most of the study period. Indonesia had an extremely high flood disaster risk, followed by Vietnam, whereas Laos, Malaysia, Brunei, and Timor Leste had lower flood risks. The model introduced in this paper is quite simple and easy to understand, providing accessible flood risk information for decision makers. Conclusion:The results we obtained have practical implications for land use and investment activities in Southeast Asia.

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Flood risk assessment using the CV-TOPSIS method for the Belt and Road Initiative: an empirical study of Southeast Asia

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“…There is an urgent need to call for a platform for sharing DRR knowledge and experiences and enhance international cooperation on DRR directly targeting the prioritized actions under Sendai Framework for DRR. Challenges and opportunities have been surfaced in the Silk Road DRR and they point the directions towards which the scientists and practitioners should focus (Lei et al, 2018).…”

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Silk Road Disaster Risk Reduction

Cui¹,

Lei²,

Wu³

2019

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The designations employed and the presentation of material throughout this publication do not imply the expression of any opinion whatsoever on the part of IRDR or the ISC concerning the legal status of any country, territory, city or area or of its authorities, or concerning the delimitation of its frontiers or boundaries.The ideas and opinions expressed in this publication are those of the authors; they are not necessarily those of IRDR or the ISC and do not commit the Organizations.

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“…The Silk Road Disaster Risk Reduction (SiDRR) project (Lei et al 2018) is one of the prioritized sub-projects of the BRI . The purpose of the SiDRR is to carry out a long-term research project dealing with natural hazard assessment and risk mitigation in the Belt and Road Countries.…”

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Landslide susceptibility in the Belt and Road Countries: continental step of a multi-scale approach

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The Belt and Road Initiative is a collaboration project launched by the Chinese Government to connect more than 65 countries all over the word by developing infrastructures, facilities, and support collaborations among involved Countries. The Silk Road Disaster Risk Reduction is a sub-project of the Belt and Road Initiative focused on mitigation and prevention of natural risks in the involved countries. In this context, this work presents a method to approach landslide susceptibility zoning on a continental scale that takes into account the limitations due to the completeness of landslide inventories and the scale and data quality of causal factors. A first attempt to produce a pixel-based statistical susceptibility map is described. All the data and software used in this work are open and open source. The landslide susceptibility zoning has been carried out in south-Asia using the NASA-COOLR landslide dataset through the Weight of Evidence method and it has been evaluated and validated by means of the ROC analysis. The results reveal a good prediction capacity and highlights that slope, relative relief and annual precipitation are the causative factors that play a major role in predisposing slope instability in the study area. Based on them, the method will be applied to the rest of the Belt and Road Countries.

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An international program on Silk Road Disaster Risk Reduction–a Belt and Road initiative (2016–2020)

Abstract: out opportunities for the near future international cooperation on this matter.

Cited by 33 publications

References 19 publications

Flood risk assessment using the CV-TOPSIS method for the Belt and Road Initiative: an empirical study of Southeast Asia

Flood risk assessment using the CV-TOPSIS method for the Belt and Road Initiative: an empirical study of Southeast Asia

Silk Road Disaster Risk Reduction

Landslide susceptibility in the Belt and Road Countries: continental step of a multi-scale approach

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