Author: State Environmental Protection administration of China
Language: English
2004; Paperback;240x185mm;150 pages

Table of Contents

Chapter 1:
1.Flood as the most serious disaster
2.The Purpose of flood vulnerability assessment

Chapter 2: The Flood Vulnerability Assessment Approach
1.A typology of floods
2.The structure of a flood disaster system
3.The disaster enabling environment
4.Disaster drivers
5.Disaster bearers
6.Disaster bearing capacity of society

Chapter 3: Method for Assessing Flood Vulnerability
1.Vulnerability assessment
2.Methodology for assessing flood disaster vulnerability
3.The principles behind establishing an indicator system
4.The application of spatial information technology to vulnerability assessment

Chapter 4: Trial Assessment of the Yangtze River
1.The natural geography of the Yangtze River
2.Major historical floods
3.Assessment methodology
4.The disaster environment
5.Disaster drivers
6.Disaster bearers
7.Flood vulnerability zones in Yangtze River basin

Chapter 5: Application to Dongting Lake
1.Area covered by the assessment
2.Administrative units
3.Historical floods
4.Topography
5.Climate
6.Hydrological conditions
7.Flood drivers
8.Soil and biodiversity
9.The social economy
10.Methodology

Chapter 6: Assessment of Dongting’s Vulnerability to Flood Impacts
1.Flood disaster environment
2.Flood disaster driers in Dongting Lake area
3.Selection of indicators and vulnerability assessment for flood bearers
4.Social flood resistance capacity
5.Regionalization and integrated analysis of flood disaster vulnerability in the Dongting Lake region

Chapter 7: Results of the Assessment and Suggestions for Policy
1.Results
2.Policy recommendations
3.Limitations of this study

Appendix 1: The Analytical Hierarchy process
Appendix 2: Data Sources and Standards for Dongting Lake
References