The assessment of vulnerability to floods in Guangdong province at district level

To evaluate the vulnerability to floods in Guangdong province at district level. Data were collected from the sixth census, the 2010 Statistical Yearbook of Guangdong, the 2010 Health Statistics Yearbook of Guangdong and China Disease Prevention and Control information systems, etc. The weight of ea...

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Published inZhōnghuá yùfáng-yīxué zázhì Vol. 46; no. 11; p. 1020
Main Authors Zhu, Qi, Liu, Tao, Zhang, Yong-hui, Luo, Yuan, Wei, Yao, Xiao, Jian-peng, Zeng, Si-qing, Ma, Wen-jun
Format Journal Article
LanguageChinese
Published China 01.11.2012
Subjects
China
Climate
Demography
Disasters
Floods
Humans
Risk Assessment
Rivers
China
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Summary:To evaluate the vulnerability to floods in Guangdong province at district level. Data were collected from the sixth census, the 2010 Statistical Yearbook of Guangdong, the 2010 Health Statistics Yearbook of Guangdong and China Disease Prevention and Control information systems, etc. The weight of each indicator was determined based on subjective method and objective method respectively; and finally the results of the two methods were compared. 13 indicators were selected for the assessment of vulnerability to floods, including 6 sensitivity indicators, 5 adaptability indicators and 2 exposure indicators. Indicators with large weight (subjective weight/objective weight) were the proportion of population older than 65 years old (0.31/0.30), the proportion of population older than 65 years old (0.16/0.23), infant mortality rate (0.18/0.20), the total Gross Domestic Product (GDP) per capita (0.33/0.21), the proportion of illiterate in the population older than 15 years old (0.19/0.28), history frequency of floods
ISSN:0253-9624