Impact of local economic development on drought risks: A case of north China

Author

Hui-ming, Zhang ; Xian-ping, Yue ; Suo-quan, Zhou

Author_Institution

Coll. of Econ. & Manage., Nanjing Univ. of Inf. Sci. & Technol., Nanjing, China

fYear

2009

fDate

10-12 Nov. 2009

Firstpage

974

Lastpage

977

Abstract

We first present theoretically that local economic development on the one hand, would result in a fragile ecological environment, waste use of water resources and lead to increase of disaster losses; on the other hand may enable government to take measures to prevent disasters and reduce the drought risks; next we take North China as a case and adopt panel data to analyze impact of national income on drought. Results indicate that on the contrary with points of civil qualitative literature, GDP per capita plays negative role to drought risks in North China, and economy development could realize double goals of reducing drought risk and eradicating poverty.

Keywords

disasters; environmental economics; government policies; hydrology; local government; GDP per capita; North China; civil qualitative literature; drought risks; fragile ecological environment; local economic development; national income; poverty; waste water resources; Disaster management; Economic forecasting; Environmental economics; Frequency; Information science; Meteorology; National security; Risk analysis; Technology management; Water pollution;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Grey Systems and Intelligent Services, 2009. GSIS 2009. IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Nanjing

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-4914-9

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-4916-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/GSIS.2009.5408027

Filename

5408027