Public response to earthquake disaster: a case study in Yushu Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture

Wei, Benyong; Su, Guiwu; Liu, Fenggui

doi:10.1007/s11069-013-0710-2

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“…Public education would be the key approach to build a people-oriented system. The previous studies show the effectiveness of disaster education across the world [68,69]; the case studies in China, however, show the low education level of disaster mitigation and governance [70,71]. Our analysis shows the value of public education as well since both professional monitoring and mass monitoring and prevention include the training.…”

Section: From Disaster-oriented To People-orientedmentioning

confidence: 61%

Geo-Disaster Governance under the IAD Framework: The Case Study of Chongqing’s Three Gorges Reservoir Region, China

Ran

Fan

Zhou³

et al. 2020

Sustainability

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Disaster governance draws attention from academics and policymakers, especially in developing countries. This paper shows how daily geo-disaster governance at local level operates in China and then reveals the causes of its pattern. To achieve the goals, we apply the Institutional Analysis and Development (IAD) Framework as the lens into the case of Chongqing’s Three Gorges Reservoir Region. We find that China’s daily geo-disaster governance, as a whole, is a top–down system where public sectors play an active role. It emphasizes technology, engineering, and profession, and features the matrix of fragmentation. The governance varies as the situations change and leaves disconnection among situations. The exogenous environment, several rules in action situations, and evaluative criteria shape the governance pattern altogether. Finally, we suggest that the government should change from disaster orientation to people orientation, from discontinuity to continuity, and from singularity to diversity.

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Section: From Disaster-oriented To People-orientedmentioning

confidence: 61%

Geo-Disaster Governance under the IAD Framework: The Case Study of Chongqing’s Three Gorges Reservoir Region, China

Ran

Fan

Zhou³

et al. 2020

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“…Through long-term application at multiple earthquake sites and after practical inspection, the intensity scale has been shown to be reliable. Moreover, many scientific studies are based on this intensity scale (He et al 2011a(He et al , 2011bWei et al 2013;Xu et al 2013;Wu et al 2015). In this paper, we use the CSIS as a measure of the seismic effects of the chosen earthquakes (Zhou et al 2018a(Zhou et al , 2018b.…”

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confidence: 99%

Developing a revised social force model for pedestrians’ earthquake emergency evacuation

Zhou

Nie

et al. 2020

Geomatics, Natural Hazards and Risk

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After earthquake, the correct and efficient earthquake emergency evacuation of pedestrian is crucial for reducing casualties. Based on the research on the quantitative of panic coefficient and the calibration of initial desired speed, this research has constructed the revised social force model which could accurately simulate the post-earthquake evacuation process of the crowed. Using the revised social force model, the effects of classroom layout, seismic intensity, the number of safeties exits and the number of students in the classroom on the evacuation efficiency are further studied. And then, according to the research results, the classroom layout has been further optimized to improve the students' earthquake emergency evacuation efficiency. These research results are scientific bases for the targeted earthquake emergency safety education and the design of classroom layout.

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“…Natural hazards represent an ever-present threat to human life as well as to the physical infrastructure and global economy; among them, earthquakes constitute extremely serious and deadly natural disasters worldwide (Wei et al 2013;Wei et al 2017). China, which is highly prone to earthquakes, frequently suffers from destructive and catastrophic earthquake activity that results in the serious loss of both life and property (An et al 2015).…”

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confidence: 99%

Seismic vulnerability assessment at urban scale using data mining and GIScience technology: application to Urumqi (China)

Liu

Wei

et al. 2019

Geomatics, Natural Hazards and Risk

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Seismic vulnerability assessments play a significant role in comprehensive risk mitigation efforts and seismic emergency planning, especially for urban areas with a high population density and a complex construction environment. Traditional approaches such as in situ fieldwork are accurate for conducting seismic vulnerability assessments of buildings; however, they are too much time and cost-consuming, especially in moderate to low seismic hazard regions. To address this issue, an integrated approach for a macroseismic vulnerability assessment composed of data mining methods and GIScience technology was presented and applied to Urumqi, China. First, vulnerability proxies were established via in situ data of buildings in the Tianshan District with an EMS-98 vulnerability classification scheme and two data mining methods, namely, support vector machine and association rule learning methods. Then, vulnerability proxies were applied to the Urumqi database, and the accuracy was validated. Finally, seismic risk maps were constructed through data consisting of direct damage to buildings and human casualties. The results indicated that the two data mining methods could achieve desirable accuracies and stabilities when estimating the seismic vulnerability. The seismic risk of Urumqi was estimated as Slight with a predicted number of 61,380 homeless people for a seismic intensity scenario of VIII.

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Public response to earthquake disaster: a case study in Yushu Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture

Cited by 22 publications

References 29 publications

Geo-Disaster Governance under the IAD Framework: The Case Study of Chongqing’s Three Gorges Reservoir Region, China

Geo-Disaster Governance under the IAD Framework: The Case Study of Chongqing’s Three Gorges Reservoir Region, China

Developing a revised social force model for pedestrians’ earthquake emergency evacuation

Seismic vulnerability assessment at urban scale using data mining and GIScience technology: application to Urumqi (China)

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