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  • Community Disaster Resilience and Risk Perception in Earthquake-Stricken Areas of China

  • Zhixing Ma, Wenfeng Zhou, Xin Deng, Dingde Xu
  • Journal:
    Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness / Volume 17 / 2023
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    16 March 2022, e74
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  • Objective:

    The purpose of this study is to further deepen our understanding of the relationship between community resilience and disaster risk perception of residents, so as to provide beneficial enlightenment for the construction of community resilience disaster prevention system and disaster risk management.

    Methods:

    This study surveyed 327 rural households in four counties of Sichuan Province, China, that were affected by the Wenchuan and Lushan earthquakes. Community disaster resilience was divided into five dimensions: connection and caring, resources, transformative potential, disaster management, and information and communication. Residents’ disaster risk perception was divided into three dimensions: possibility, threat, and worry. This study analyzed the characteristics of community disaster resilience and residents’ disaster risk perceptions. Ordinary least squares (OLS) methods were used to explore the correlations between these factors.

    Results:

    The results show that (1) Residents’ overall disaster risk perception was at a moderate level, and the community’s overall disaster resilience were above the moderate level. (2) Community connection and caring has a positive significant correlation with the possibility perception of disaster occurrence; transformative potential has a negative significant correlation with the possibility perception of disaster occurrence; the overall community disaster resilience has negative significant correlations with the possibility and the overall residents’ perception of disaster risk occurrence.

    Conclusions:

    The implication for the local government is that the government should appropriately increase its contact with external institutions/organizations, especially some Non-Governmental Organization, to strengthen the resilience and disaster prevention capacity of the community. Establish and improve information and communication networks to ensure the timely and effective transmission of effective disaster information, and strengthen the supervision of the dissemination of false information to reduce the losses caused by false information to residents. Attention should be paid to psychological counseling for people in disaster-hit areas to reduce the psychological trauma of the disaster.

  • 2 - Li Tao and the Long Draft

  • from Part I - Sources
  • Charles Hartman, University at Albany, State University of New York
  • Book:
    The Making of Song Dynasty History
    Published online:
    24 September 2020
    Print publication:
    08 October 2020, pp 49-102

  • Summary

    Chapter 3 studies the life and works of Li Tao (1115–1184), compiler of the Long Draft Continuation of the Comprehensive Mirror That Aids Administration (Xu zizhi tongjian changbian), the definitive chronological history of the Northern Song period, which lasted from 960 through 1127. He and his fellow Sichuanese, Li Xinchuan, the subject of Chapter 4, are the two most influential historians who worked during the Song period on the history of their own dynasty. An extensive investigation of Li Tao’s biography underscores the close connection between his long service as a Sichuan provincial official, his political convictions and associations, and the narrative of Northern Song history that he presented in the Long Draft. I conclude that Li Tao intended his work as a handbook of historical and political precedents for use by the same coalition of literati officials to which Zhu Xi and Zhao Ruyu belonged. Although not himself an advocate of daoxue learning, Li Tao was sympathetic to its political goals. The second part of the chapter studies the methodology of the Long Draft, in particular its integration of main text and interlinear commentary to generate for the reader an interactive experience of participating in the historiographical process of source selection and evaluation. The chapter also analyzes the complex dynamic between Li Tao’s work as a private historian and his appointment to the official court office of historiography.

  • Epidemiological survey and sequence information analysis of swine hepatitis E virus in Sichuan, China

  • Y. Y. Li, Z. W. Xu, X. J. Li, S. Y. Gong, Y. Cai, Y. Q. Chen, Y. M. Li, Y. F. Xu, X. G. Sun, L. Zhu
  • Journal:
    Epidemiology & Infection / Volume 147 / 2019
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    19 November 2018, e49
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  • Hepatitis E is an important zoonosis that is prevalent in China. Hepatitis E virus (HEV) is a pathogen that affects humans and animals and endangers public health in China. In this study, the detection of HEV epidemics in swine in Sichuan Province, China, was carried out by nested real-time PCR. A total of 174 stool samples and 160 bile samples from swine in Sichuan Province were examined. In addition, software was used to analyse the biological evolution of HEV. The results showed that within 2 years of swine HEV (SHEV) infection in China, SHEV was first detected in Sichuan Province. HEV was endemic in Sichuan; the positive rate for pig farms was 11.1%, and the total positive sample rate was 10.5%. The age of swine with the highest positive rate (17.9%) was 5–9 weeks. The examined swine species in order of highest to lowest HEV infection rates were Chenghua pig, Large White, Duroc, Pietrain, Landrace and Hampshire. Nucleotide and amino acid sequence analysis showed that the HEV epidemic in swine in Sichuan Province was related to genotype IV, which had the highest homology to HEV in Beijing. Sichuan strains have greater variation than Chinese representative strains, which may indicate the presence of new HEV strains.