Flood disaster risk and socioeconomy in the Yellow River Basin, China
Study region: the Yellow River Basin (YRB) in China. Study focus: Global warming potentially accentuates risks of extreme precipitation and floods that afflict regional socioeconomy. However, spatiotemporally-coupled relations between flood risk and socioeconomic development in the YRB are not prope...
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| author | Lei Hu Qiang Zhang Gang Wang Vijay P. Singh Wenhuan Wu Keke Fan Zexi Shen |
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| description | Study region: the Yellow River Basin (YRB) in China. Study focus: Global warming potentially accentuates risks of extreme precipitation and floods that afflict regional socioeconomy. However, spatiotemporally-coupled relations between flood risk and socioeconomic development in the YRB are not properly understood. Here we used the Coupled Coordination Degree Model (CCDM) to evaluate the coupled relationship between flood risk and socioeconomic development in the YRB, China. New hydrological insights for the region: The regions with flood hazard along the mainstream of the YRB and decreasing flood hazard in the direction from southeast to northwest of the YRB, high hazard and higher hazard areas accounted for 10.39%. Meanwhile, overall flood exposure and vulnerability are decreasing from southeast to northwest YRB. Higher socioeconomic restorability highly alleviates the risk of flood disasters in central and northern Shandong, northern Henan, central Shaanxi, southern Shanxi provinces, and parts of Inner Mongolia. Relations between socioeconomic development and flood disaster risk are varying across the YRB. The lower YRB is dominated by developed socioeconomy but higher flood disaster risk. The high socioeconomic exposure and vulnerability of the lower YRB will increase the risk of flood disasters. The “transitional” zone in the middle YRB needs to properly handle the contradiction between economy and flood risk to avoid increased risk. Overall, socioeconomic development has a weak relation with flood disaster risk in the upper YRB. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-c4f40dee89c24a7e9c40c148d7f6ff262022-12-22T04:35:47ZengElsevierJournal of Hydrology: Regional Studies2214-58182022-12-0144101272Flood disaster risk and socioeconomy in the Yellow River Basin, ChinaLei Hu0Qiang Zhang1Gang Wang2Vijay P. Singh3Wenhuan Wu4Keke Fan5Zexi Shen6State Key Laboratory of Earth Surface Processes and Resource Ecology, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China; Faculty of Geographical Science, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, ChinaAdvanced Interdisciplinary Institute of Environment and Ecology, Beijing Normal University, Zhuhai 519087, China; Corresponding author at: Advanced Interdisciplinary Institute of Environment and Ecology, Beijing Normal University, Zhuhai 519087, China.State Key Laboratory of Earth Surface Processes and Resource Ecology, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China; Faculty of Geographical Science, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, ChinaDepartment of Biological and Agricultural Engineering and Zachry Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, USA; National Water and Energy Center, UAE University, Al Ain, UAEState Key Laboratory of Earth Surface Processes and Resource Ecology, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China; Faculty of Geographical Science, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, ChinaState Key Laboratory of Earth Surface Processes and Resource Ecology, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China; Faculty of Geographical Science, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, ChinaState Key Laboratory of Earth Surface Processes and Resource Ecology, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China; Faculty of Geographical Science, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, ChinaStudy region: the Yellow River Basin (YRB) in China. Study focus: Global warming potentially accentuates risks of extreme precipitation and floods that afflict regional socioeconomy. However, spatiotemporally-coupled relations between flood risk and socioeconomic development in the YRB are not properly understood. Here we used the Coupled Coordination Degree Model (CCDM) to evaluate the coupled relationship between flood risk and socioeconomic development in the YRB, China. New hydrological insights for the region: The regions with flood hazard along the mainstream of the YRB and decreasing flood hazard in the direction from southeast to northwest of the YRB, high hazard and higher hazard areas accounted for 10.39%. Meanwhile, overall flood exposure and vulnerability are decreasing from southeast to northwest YRB. Higher socioeconomic restorability highly alleviates the risk of flood disasters in central and northern Shandong, northern Henan, central Shaanxi, southern Shanxi provinces, and parts of Inner Mongolia. Relations between socioeconomic development and flood disaster risk are varying across the YRB. The lower YRB is dominated by developed socioeconomy but higher flood disaster risk. The high socioeconomic exposure and vulnerability of the lower YRB will increase the risk of flood disasters. The “transitional” zone in the middle YRB needs to properly handle the contradiction between economy and flood risk to avoid increased risk. Overall, socioeconomic development has a weak relation with flood disaster risk in the upper YRB.http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214581822002853Flood disaster riskSocioeconomic developmentCoupling coordination degreeHuman-land coordination |
| spellingShingle | Lei Hu Qiang Zhang Gang Wang Vijay P. Singh Wenhuan Wu Keke Fan Zexi Shen Flood disaster risk and socioeconomy in the Yellow River Basin, China Journal of Hydrology: Regional Studies Flood disaster risk Socioeconomic development Coupling coordination degree Human-land coordination |
| title | Flood disaster risk and socioeconomy in the Yellow River Basin, China |
| title_full | Flood disaster risk and socioeconomy in the Yellow River Basin, China |
| title_fullStr | Flood disaster risk and socioeconomy in the Yellow River Basin, China |
| title_full_unstemmed | Flood disaster risk and socioeconomy in the Yellow River Basin, China |
| title_short | Flood disaster risk and socioeconomy in the Yellow River Basin, China |
| title_sort | flood disaster risk and socioeconomy in the yellow river basin china |
| topic | Flood disaster risk Socioeconomic development Coupling coordination degree Human-land coordination |
| url | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214581822002853 |
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