This book vividly shows the fostering environment, activity characteristics, distribution pattern, economic losses, casualties, disaster risks and management of earthquakes, mass movement, drought, floods, and marine disasters in the Silk Road region.
Prof. CUI Peng, academician (member) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and foreign fellow of the Pakistan Academy of Sciences, is a leading scientist in physical geography and water and soil conservation. He currently serves as the Co-Director General (Chinese side) of China-Pakistan Joint Research Center on Earth Sciences, Co-Director of Alliance of International Science Organizations on Disaster Risk Reduction (ANSO-DRR), Science Committee Member of IRDR of ISC/UNDRR. He has published more than 400 papers with more than 12000 citations, including 149 SCI papers, 74 EI papers, 189 CSCD papers. He owns 18 patents and 10 monographs.