Reducing and Transfering Risk in China 's Dongting Lake Region

Beijing Normal University (BNU) and International Institute for Application System Analysis ( IIASA , Austria ) are undertaking a research project on the Dongting Lake with two objectives: The first is to estimate the flood risks in the lake region, keeping in mind changing conditions of land use and climate. The second objective is to identify (further) mitigation and loss-sharing options that are economically, socially and politically acceptable.

Research Center for Catastrophe Exposure and Insurance SwissRe · Beijing Normal University

China is one of the countries that are seriously subject to a variety of hazards. In the last forty years, the losses caused by the seven kinds of disasters related to the meteorology, ocean, flood, earthquake, geology, agriculture and forestry account for 3-5% of Gross National Product. The death toll from these disasters is about several ten thousand every year on average. In the long term, the China government thinks highly of the hazard research and disaster reduction, and now the mitigation of the disasters is regarded as the elementary national policy.