This book vividly shows the fostering environment, activity characteristics, distribution pattern, economic losses, casualties, disaster risks and management of earthquakes, mass movement, drought, floods, and marine disasters in the Silk Road region. It develops a multi-scale and multi-disaster risk assessment method to better assess and understand the Silk Road disaster risk. A multi-level collaborative risk management model has been proposed for transboundary disasters, and it also shares case studies on major disaster risk management. The book makes a major step forward to increase the understanding of the disaster risk of the Silk Road region.

Chapter 1 Background and Connotations
1.1 The Shared Silk Road
1.2 Disaster Impact
1.3 International Agreements on Disaster Risk Reduction
1.4 Opportunities and Challenges
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Chapter 2 Environment
2.1 Disaster Fostering Environment
2.2 Spatial and Temporal Distribution of Disasters
2.3 Integrated Hazard Zonation
References
Chapter 3 Disaster Risk Assessment
3.1 Natural Hazards and Its Risks
3.2 Silk Road Disaster Risk Assessment
3.3 Regional Scale Disaster Risk Assessment
3.4 Assessment of Disaster Risks of Typical Community
3.5 Assessment of Disaster Risks to Infrastructure
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Chapter 4 Risk Management
4.1 From Disaster Management Towards Disaster Risk Management
4.2 Challenges for Disaster Risk Management in the Silk Road Area
4.3 A Disaster Risk Management Model for the Silk Road Area
4.4 Cases Study
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Chapter 5 Future Prospects
Appendix I: Terms
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Appendix II: Disaster Risk Assessment Methods
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Appendix III: Methods of Integrated Hazard Zonation