Characteristics of Secondary Mountain Disaster Chain in Wenchuan Earthquake

The Wenchuan Earthquake and Its Challenges for Disaster Relief

or city is assigned to a recipient area, in the 1950s as part of its efforts to develop the minority-inhabited border areas, and this practice was first formalized by the central government in 1979 (Qian et al. 2012). Since then, this strategy has also been used to undertake major infrastructure construction projects (such as the Three Gorges Dam in 1992) and disaster relief and recovery (such ...

Blood products supply chain design considering disaster circumstances (Case study: earthquake disaster in Tehran)

Maintaining the health of people during and after a disaster is one of the most important issues in disaster management. Blood products are among the essential items needed to save the human life and the lack of them may lead to significant losses in human health. In this paper a comprehensive mathematical model of blood products supply chain is presented to respond the need for blood products ...

Tectonic Background of the Wenchuan Earthquake

Time bound: the timescape of secondary trauma of the surviving teachers of the Wenchuan Earthquake.

This article introduces a timescape perspective to enrich our understanding of postdisaster secondary trauma and social capital. Drawing upon a 2-year ethnographic study in 2008-2010 of a high school most devastated by the Wenchuan Earthquake in Sichuan, China, this article discusses how the national future-oriented timescape of recovery produced the secondary trauma among the surviving teacher...

Wenchuan earthquake. A deeply scarred land.

LONGMENSHAN, CHINA—In the morning of 12 May 2008, Ren Diandong gave a talk on landslide modeling at the Institute of Atmospheric Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) in Beijing. A few hours later, Ren’s model was put to the supreme test: a magnitude-7.9 earthquake in Sichuan Province’s Longmenshan range (Science, 20 June 2008, p. 1578). As early reports came in that afternoon of a d...