Assessment of the ripple effects and spatial heterogeneity of total losses in the capital of China after a great catastrophic shock

The total losses caused by natural disasters have spatial heterogeneity due to the different economic development levels inside the disaster-hit areas. This paper uses scenarios of direct economic loss to introduce the sectors' losses caused by the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake (2008 WCE) in Beijing...

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Main Authors: Z. Zhang, N. Li, W. Xie, Y. Liu, J. Feng, X. Chen, L. Liu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Copernicus Publications 2017-03-01
Series:Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences
Online Access:http://www.nat-hazards-earth-syst-sci.net/17/367/2017/nhess-17-367-2017.pdf