The reclamation potential assessment of the damaged land by Wenchuan earthquake

Author

Yang, Jin ; Xiang, Mingshun

Author_Institution

State Key Lab. of Geohazard Prevention & Geoenvironment Protection, Chengdu Univ. of Technol., Chengdu, China

fYear

2011

fDate

26-28 July 2011

Firstpage

1318

Lastpage

1321

Abstract

Through several field surveys about Wenchuan earthquake stricken area, according to land damaged characteristics and the local basic conditions, it is concluded that the reclamation of damaged land in Wenchuan earthquake is restricted by natural conditions,basic conditions and social-economic conditions which are related with various factors or targets. In light of analytic hierarchy process, assessment system of land reclamation potential in Sichuan earthquake stricken area is established to obtain the critical value of reclamation potential.

Keywords

decision making; disasters; earthquake engineering; earthquakes; land use planning; socio-economic effects; Sichuan earthquake; Wenchuan earthquake; analytic hierarchy process; land damage characteristics; land reclamation potential assessment; social economic conditions; Cities and towns; Earthquakes; Indexes; Investments; Soil; Water conservation; Water resources; Wenchuan earthquake; damaged land; land reclamation; potential evaluation;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Multimedia Technology (ICMT), 2011 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Hangzhou

Print_ISBN

978-1-61284-771-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICMT.2011.6003155

Filename

6003155