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The Impact of Earthquake on Poverty: Learning from the 12 May 2008 Wenchuan Earthquake

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  • Huicong Jia

    (Key Laboratory of Digital Earth Science, Institute of Remote Sensing and Digital Earth, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100094, China
    Department of Geography and Center for Environmental Sciences and Engineering, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT 06269, USA)

  • Fang Chen

    (Key Laboratory of Digital Earth Science, Institute of Remote Sensing and Digital Earth, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100094, China
    University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
    Hainan Key Laboratory of Earth Observation, Institute of Remote Sensing and Digital Earth, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Sanya 572029, China)

  • Donghua Pan

    (National Disaster Reduction Center, Ministry of Civil Affairs, Beijing 100124, China)

  • Chuanrong Zhang

    (Department of Geography and Center for Environmental Sciences and Engineering, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT 06269, USA)

Abstract

How to combine disaster prevention and mitigation, post-disaster reconstruction and poverty alleviation has become a new hot issue. On 12 May 2008, a major earthquake devastated the Wenchuan area in Sichuan Province in the heartland of China. After ten-years have passed, it is a good time to review what we learned from the Great Wenchuan earthquake. The impact of Wenchuan earthquake on poverty-stricken counties, poverty-stricken villages, and poverty-stricken households was analyzed. Suggestions for improving the method of combining disaster prevention, post-disaster reconstruction, and poverty alleviation were proposed. The results from this research could serve as an important reference for formulation of the poverty alleviation and development program after a major earthquake.

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  • Huicong Jia & Fang Chen & Donghua Pan & Chuanrong Zhang, 2018. "The Impact of Earthquake on Poverty: Learning from the 12 May 2008 Wenchuan Earthquake," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 10(12), pages 1-14, December.
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