%0 Journal Article
%T Drought risk assessment of China¡¯s mid-season paddy
%A Yongdeng Lei
%A Jing¡¯ai Wang
%A Lili Luo
%J International Journal of Disaster Risk Science
%@ 2192-6395
%D 2011
%I 
%R 10.1007/s13753-011-0009-4
%X China has the world¡¯s largest population and a large and critically important agricultural sector. Sixty-five percent of the Chinese population lives on paddy rice. However, drought disasters frequently afflict China¡¯s rural population and threate n its food security. It is therefore of paramount importance to assess the drought risk of paddy in China. We establish a quantitative risk assessment model for the drought risk of mid-season paddy and regional-specific vulnerability curves, evaluate the drought risk of mid-season paddy, and compile a series of risk maps. The drought disaster risk rating results indicate that risk is highest in Northeast China, followed by Northwest China, North China, and South China, showing a decreasing trend from north to south. The mid-season paddy area of Northeast China has the highest mean risk index (0.58¨C0.71), followed by northwestern provinces such as Inner Mongolia and Xinjiang (0.5¨C0.6), while risk indices in provinces of North China such as Hebei and Shandong range from 0.3¨C0.5, and the southern provinces show a relatively low level of risk. This article presents the preliminary results of a scientific inquiry on where the high drought risk areas of mid-season paddy are and how high the risk is. These results provide a regional-specific basis for drought risk governance of paddy in China.
%K China
%K drought disaster risk
%K mid-season paddy
%K regional risk assessment
%K vulnerability curves
%U http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13753-011-0009-4