Flood disaster risk and socioeconomy in the Yellow River Basin, China

• DOI: 10.1016/j.ejrh.2022.101272
• Publication Date: 2022-11-24T13:51:51Z
• Authors: Lei Hu; Qiang Zhang; Gang Wang; Vijay P. Singh; Wenhuan Wu; Keke Fan; Zexi Shen
• Keywords: Vulnerability

the Yellow River Basin (YRB) in China. Global warming potentially accentuates risks of extreme precipitation and floods that afflict regional socioeconomy. However, spatiotemporally-coupled relations between flood risk socioeconomic development YRB are not properly understood. Here we used Coupled Coordination Degree Model (CCDM) to evaluate coupled relationship YRB, The regions with hazard along mainstream decreasing direction from southeast northwest high higher areas accounted for 10.39%. Meanwhile, overall exposure vulnerability YRB. Higher restorability highly alleviates disasters central northern Shandong, Henan, Shaanxi, southern Shanxi provinces, parts Inner Mongolia. Relations disaster varying across lower is dominated by developed socioeconomy but risk. will increase disasters. "transitional" zone middle needs handle contradiction economy avoid increased Overall, has a weak relation upper