Journal of Risk Analysis and Crisis Response

Volume 9, Issue 2, June 2019
Editorial

1. Introduction for Volume 9, Issue 2

Chongfu Huang, Gordon Huang
Pages: 60 - 61
Research Article

2. Competency of the Infantry Troops of the Nepalese Army in Disaster Response

Shrijan Bahadur Malla, Shuichi Hasegawa, Ranjan Kumar Dahal
Pages: 62 - 73
Although the Nepalese Army’s regular infantry troops are the tools of disaster response their competency at times becomes questionable. Their disaster response’s soft skill knowledge, technical skill knowledge and preparedness activities along with the perception of senior army officers have been analyzed....
Research Article

3. Seismic Hazard Model Harmonization in Tienshan Area

Changlong Li, Mengtan Gao
Pages: 74 - 84
This paper provides a comparison between Central Asia, the Middle East hazard models and the Chinese hazard result in Tienshan Area, based on reshaped seismogenic sources, recalculated related seismicity parameters, and calibrated ground motion models. This paper concluded that in the most areas of Tienshan,...
Case Study

4. Applicability of Regional Evaluation for Rapid Assessment Models of Earthquake Disaster Life Loss – A case study of Gansu Province

Wen Li, Wenkai Chen, Hanran Zhang, Zijing Su
Pages: 85 - 92
In this paper, typical earthquake disaster life loss assessment models are applied to verify and calculate the historical earthquake cases in the Gansu Province since 1966. The assessment accuracy and applicability of various models in the Gansu Province are studied by means of actual earthquake cases....
Research Article

5. Evaluation on Ecological Civilization Construction Level in Guizhou Based on Intuitionistic Fuzzy Analytic Hierarchy Process

Xinpu Wang, Mu Zang
Pages: 93 - 100
In order to better build the ecological environment of Guizhou province, accelerate the marketization and capitalization of Guizhou province’s ecological resources, and evaluate and study the construction level of Guizhou’s ecological civilization. This paper, by using IFAHP, the establishment of intuitionistic...
Research Article

6. Spatial and Temporal Patterns of Urban Vulnerability in Guangzhou

Bo Tang, Jinan Qiu, Jiaying Huang, Yuanyuan Zhang, Feipeng Qiu
Pages: 101 - 110
The evaluation of urban vulnerability is of great significance to improve the quality of urbanization. An urban vulnerability index system was developed from four aspects of population vulnerability, economic vulnerability, social vulnerability and ecological vulnerability. The Spatial and temporal patterns...
Review Article

7. Summary of Researches on Basis Risk in Weather Index Insurance

Yueqin Wang, Sijian Zhao
Pages: 111 - 122
Agricultural weather index insurance overcomes the technology and management problems existing in traditional agricultural insurance, and can effectively transfer agricultural meteorological disasters risk, providing strong guarantee for farmers with small production scale and scattered land. Although...