Learning from Experience : Insights from China’s Progress in Disaster Risk Management
China has long known more than its fair share of disasters, including earthquakes, typhoons, floods, and droughts. The good news is that in recent decades, the country has made tremendous headway in building its resilience to disasters. Learning fr...
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2020
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/261341593331162275/Learning-from-Experience-Insights-from-China-s-Progress-in-Disaster-Risk-Management http://hdl.handle.net/10986/34090 |
| Summary: | China has long known more than its fair
share of disasters, including earthquakes, typhoons, floods,
and droughts. The good news is that in recent decades, the
country has made tremendous headway in building its
resilience to disasters. Learning from these efforts will be
critical to strengthening resilience building efforts in
China and beyond. In that spirit, this Knowledge Note
distills some lessons from China’s progress in many areas of
disaster risk management. The note does not comprehensively
cover the country’s achievements but focuses instead on
topics that might be of interest to DRM practitioners
globally. Drawing on expert insights from China’s disaster
risk management community, key themes highlighted by this
note include: the evolution of national disaster risk
reduction (DRR) planning; the rise of demonstration
communities; standardization of the disaster loss
statistical system; development of an agricultural insurance
system; establishment of a catastrophe risk insurance
system. China has also made significant progress in
establishing a catastrophe risk insurance system that allows
for local innovations and pilots based on local
characteristics; Development of a comprehensive space-based
system of disaster and emergency monitoring. Amid a changing
climate, China is facing the specter of even more
significant disaster risks in the future, which may also
bring global cascading impacts. Taking stock of the progress
that has been achieved so far, there is good reason to
believe that the country will continue to learn and innovate
toward a resilient future. |
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