Risk Assessment of Drought Based on IEAPP-IDM in Qujing, Yunnan Province, China

Deng, Menghua; Chen, Junfei; Liu, Guiyun; Wang, Huimin

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Risk Assessment of Drought Based on IEAPP-IDM in Qujing, Yunnan Province, China

Menghua Deng,^1,2,3Junfei Chen ,^1,2,3Guiyun Liu,^1,2,3and Huimin Wang^1,2,3

Academic Editor: Anthony R. Lupo

Received02 Oct 2016

Accepted12 Dec 2016

Published29 Dec 2016

Abstract

A new model for risk assessment of drought based on projection pursuit optimized by immune evolutionary algorithm and information diffusion method (IEAPP-IDM) was proposed. Due to the fact that drought risk assessment is a complex multicriteria and multilevel problem, the IEAPP-IDM model can project the multidimensional indicators of samples into one-dimension projection scores; then, the information carried by the projection scores was diffused into drought risk levels; finally, the drought disaster risk estimate was obtained. In the present study, Qujing was employed to assess the drought risk with the proposed model. The results showed that Xuanwei possessed higher risk, while Luliang and Zhanyi possessed lower risk. At the same time, the probability risk of drought in Malong and Luoping was increasing, while the probability risk of drought in in Qilin and Shizong was decreasing. The results obtained by the assessment model are consistent with the actual situation of Qujing and verify the model’s effectiveness. The study can provide scientific reference in drought risk management for Qujing and other places of China.

1. Introduction

In recent years, extreme climate events, especially droughts, have occurred more frequently and caused large amounts of loss [1–3]. China is one of the countries that is most afflicted with serious drought disasters in the world. The annual average economic losses caused by droughts in China are over tens of billions of dollars from 2006 to 2014 [4]. Drought has become an important factor constraining China’s agricultural productivity and sustainable development. The study area is located in the east of Yunnan Province and is influenced by East Asian monsoon and South Asian monsoon, resulting in fluctuating precipitation [5–7]. From 2009 to 2012, droughts had affected 453628.9 hectares of farmland and 3.48 million people in this area [8]. Consequently, evaluating drought risk is important for improving the prediction of drought and reducing the losses in the region.

In recent decades, some studies have been performed on the theory and methods for the risk evaluation of droughts, such as fuzzy analysis [9], copula [10], information diffusion [11], and artificial neural networks [12]. Generally, drought risk assessment can be divided into qualitative assessment and quantitative assessment [13]. The quantitative assessment methods assess a potential risk of drought by means of several well-weighted indicators. For example, Chen and Yang [14] proposed fuzzy analytic network process (ANP) model to assess the risk of drought in Hunan province from 2007 to 2009. Jia and Pan [15] adopted wavelet transform method to assess the drought risk in Yunnan province of China. Hao et al. [16] adopted information diffusion model for drought risk assessment with the historic drought disaster data from 583 agrometeorological observations (1991–2009). Yin et al. [17] proposed GEPIC-V-R model to assess a large regional-scale crop drought risk. Quijano et al. [18] proposed an event-based approach to evaluate the probabilistic risk of agricultural drought under rain-fed conditions.

Remote sensing and geographic information systems (GIS) make it possible to evaluate drought over large areas and generate visual results [19]. Scholars have conducted some research in the field. For example, Wu et al. [20] applied the fuzzy clustering iterative model and GIS to analyze the agricultural drought vulnerability of 65 cities in the Yellow River basin in China. Han et al. [21] adopted vegetation temperature condition index (VTCI) to evaluate the drought in the Guanzhong Plain of China. Sahoo et al. [22] employed remote sensing derived vegetation condition index (VCI) for drought risk assessment in Dhar and Mewat of India. Vicente-Serrano et al. [23] adopted long time series of remote sensing images and normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) to evaluate the drought variability in semiarid regions worldwide.

However, there is an unavoidable fact that the remote sensing, geographic, and statistical information adopted to drought risk assessment have randomness, fuzziness, and nonuniformity characteristics. Therefore, uncertainty theories have been introduced into the drought risk assessment by some researchers, for example, fuzzy comprehensive evaluation [24], projection pursuit [25], comprehensive cloud model [26], and variable fuzzy sets (VFS) [27, 28]. There are some disadvantages to or deficiencies with these approaches. For example, the projection pursuit cannot well solve the multi-indicators and multiyears fuzzy synthetic risk evaluation of drought; the establishment of the relative membership function of the VFS depends on physical analysis and expert experience [29]. Taking into consideration these factors, there is a trend that combines different advantages of approaches with each other to construct new approaches. For example, Ouyang et al. [30] developed a composite method based on information diffusion method and bootstrap to estimate the drought risk; Li et al. [27] constructed an integrated model based on variable fuzzy sets and information diffusion to assess disaster risk. The optimization of projection pursuit is a complex and nonlinear problem with various restrictions. It is difficult to solve it with traditional optimization methods. Alternatively, the immune evolutionary algorithm (IEA), which is inspired from the mechanism of biological immune and evolution systems, has a good ability of global searching and diversiform memorizing and is capable of solving the optimization problem [31]. Besides, the algorithm has an advantage of fast convergence rate, requires few control parameters, and is more reliable for global optimization [32] and combinatorial optimization [33]. Therefore, in this paper, IEA was employed to solve the optimization problem of projection pursuit. Then, the information diffusion method (IDM) was adopted to transform the projection scores of different years into a fuzzy set to achieve the comprehensive risk evaluation of droughts. Therefore, the IEAAP-IDM model can be seen as an organic combination of the three theories.

The occurrence of drought is due to hazard-inducing environment, hazard-formative factors, and hazard-affected bodies. Therefore, in this study, drought was defined as a composite system of sensitivity of hazard-inducing environment, dangerousness of hazard-formative factors, and vulnerability of hazard-affected bodies. In the support of natural disaster risk assessment and IEAPP-IDM model, Qujing in Yunnan province was taken as a case study area. The objectives of the study are to () establish a drought risk assessment indicator system; () calculate the indicator weights objectively by means of projection direction vector; () develop the IEAPP-IDM model to evaluate the drought risk; () obtain the exceeding probability under different risk levels of drought and perform the comprehensive risk zoning map for drought risk management. The research can provide scientific reference for drought risk management by reasonable drought risk assessment.

2. Overview of Study Area

Qujing is located in the east of Yunnan province, between 102°42′E–104°50′E and 24°19′N–27°03′N. It is one of the important economic cities in Yunnan province, administratively divided into 9 counties, including Qilin, Zhanyi, Luoping, Fuyuan, Shizong, Luliang, Huize, Malong, and Xuanwei (Figure 1). It covers an area of km² (~13.63% of Yunnan province), and its population is 5.85 million. The main climate type of the study area is typical subtropical plateau monsoon. The annual mean temperature is 14.5°C. The average annual precipitation is around 1000 mm. The water resource is sufficient from May to October but is deficient from November to April. In recent years, localized drought disasters have occurred frequently and caused huge losses. Thus, drought has become one of the most important factors that restrict the development of Qujing.

3. Data and Methods

3.1. Data Sources

The data were collected from Yunnan Statistical Yearbook, Yunnan Water Conservancy Statistics Yearbook, Yunnan Water Resource Bulletin, and Yunnan Drought Briefing. Statistics were provided by the Qujing Flood Control and Drought Relief Headquarters.

3.2. IEAPP

The basic idea of projection pursuit (PP) is to project data from high dimension into one, two, or three dimensions in accordance with certain reconstruction rules [34]. The PP model can analyze the structural characters of observed samples with the projection objective function; determine the indicator weights in an objective way with the projection direction; and obtain fairly stable results [35]. However, the optimization of projection direction is the key and difficult point to the application of the model. Immune evolutionary algorithm (IEA) is a global optimization method, which can improve the performance and increase the convergent speed, and is an effective method to solve the optimization problem [36]. Thus, IEA is employed to solve the projection direction optimization problem. The steps of the projection pursuit optimized by immune evolutionary algorithm (IEAPP) are as follows.

(1) Constructing Projection Data. Suppose there are assessment samples and indicators and denotes the value of index in sample . Due to the difference in indicator values and units, it is necessary to normalize the samples. For the greatest large evaluation value, (1) should be employed, and, for the greatest small evaluation value, (2) should be employed:where and are the maximum and the minimum index of all samples, respectively, and is the normalized value.

(2) Constructing Projection Objective Function. Suppose is the normalized projection vector. In order to project the high-dimensional indicator value of samples into one dimension, (3) should be employed:where is the projection score. Then, the projection objective function can be established as follows: where is the standard deviation (see (5)) and is the density of projection scores (see (6)).where is the mean value of ; is the density window radius; is the unit leap function, when , , otherwise, .

(3) Optimization of the Projection Objective Function. The projection objective function only varies with the projection direction . Different represents different data structure or characteristics. The optimal projection direction can be resolved by optimizing the following model:

The above model is a nonlinear optimization problem and is difficult to be solved with traditional optimization methods. As a result of IEA being capable of solving global optimization problem effectively, in this study, IEA is combined to obtain the optimal projection direction .

(4) Obtaining the Projection Scores. The optimal projection direction reflects the importance of indicators. Due to being a unit vector and , so can be taken as indicator weight in an objective way. Then, the projection score can be calculated by (3). Figure 2 shows the flow of the projection pursuit optimized by IEA.

3.3. IDM

Information diffusion is a set-valued fuzzy mathematical method, which can dispose incomplete information of samples [37]. The method can transform an observed data into a fuzzy set to improve the evaluation accuracy [38]. In this paper, we employed IDM to diffuse the projection scores of the observed sample into the fuzzy set and obtain the comprehensive drought risk values. There are many types of information diffusion methods, such as the normal information diffusion method, logarithmic diffusion, and double exponential jump diffusion. Hung and Wang [39] demonstrated that the normal information diffusion method is better than logarithmic and exponential diffusion method under the small sample size condition. Therefore, in this paper, the normal information diffusion method is adopted.

Let be a sample set, is the observed value, is the discrete universe, and is a value in . The method turns single observed value into set-valued sample as follows:where is the diffusion coefficient, calculated bywhere and .

In order to ensure the same status of each set-valued sample, it is necessary to normalize the diffusion function ; suppose

Then, the normalized diffusion function can be obtained by

Furthermore, suppose and ; the probability of samples that fall in can be obtained by

Finally, the exceeding probability can be calculated as follows:

3.4. Steps of Drought Risk Assessment Model

The basic idea of drought risk assessment model based on IEAPP-IDM is as follows. On the basis of drought risk assessment indicator system, firstly, the optimal projection scores are calculated through the IEAPP model. Then, the information carried by the projection scores is diffused to the drought risk levels through the information diffusion method. Finally, the probability risk value or the drought risk estimate is calculated.

The main steps of drought risk assessment based on IEAPP-IDM model are as follows.

Step 1. Sample analysis and selection of assessment indicators are conducted for the evaluation of drought risk.

Step 2. Calculate the optimal projection direction and projection scores based on the IEAPP model.

Step 3. Calculate the exceeding probability or the drought probability risk estimation based on the IDM model.

Step 4. Draw the comprehensive risk zoning maps.

Exceeding probability is the value of drought risk, reflecting the corresponding exceeding probability of drought risk under different drought risk levels. In other words, it indicates the recurrence interval years () under different drought risk levels. The relationship between the exceeding probability and recurrence interval years () can be expressed as .

4. Results and Discussion

4.1. Indicator System

According to the natural disaster system theory and the actual situation of Qujing, the indicators were chosen from dangerousness of hazard-formative factors, sensitivity of hazard-inducing environment, and vulnerability of hazard-affected bodies. Therefore, the risk evaluation indicator system of drought was established in Qujing (see Figure 3). The entire indicator system was divided into dangerousness, sensitivity, and vulnerability of the three subsystems.

The dangerousness of hazard-formative factors describes the abnormal degree of nature and society. Among them, extreme precipitation and temperature are the main cause of drought. Generally, the higher dangerousness of hazard-formative factors the easier appearance of drought. That is, precipitation anomaly percentage (: %), homogenization of precipitation and temperature (), soil moisture from November to April (: %), and per capita water resources (: m³/person) are chosen as the indicators of the dangerousness subsystem.

The sensitivity of hazard-inducing environment mainly describes the responsiveness to drought. The environment includes climate, soil, economic development level, basic irrigation facilities, and other nature, social, economic, and ecosystem. The greater the sensitivity, the larger the losses caused by drought. The rural per capita net income (: Yuan), agricultural irrigation water consumption per acre (: m³/mu), rate of irrigated cultivated land (: %), water-saving irrigation proportion (: %), security area ratio (: %), electromechanical drainage and irrigation area ratio (: %), drought relief investment level (: %), and emergency response ability () are selected to describe the sensitivity.

The vulnerability of hazard-affected bodies reflects the antidisaster ability. The higher the value density of hazard-affected bodies, the greater the loss. Agricultural population density (), crop planting proportion (: %), grain output per unit area (: kg/mu), and agricultural output value density (: ten-thousand/km²) are chosen to describe the vulnerability.

4.2. Risk Assessment of Drought Based on IEAPP-IDM

Based on the drought risk assessment indicator system and IEAPP-IDM model, firstly, the optimal projection direction and projection scores in Qujing were calculated; then, the fuzzy relationship between projection score and drought risk level was established; finally, the comprehensive risk evaluation was obtained and the risk zoning map was drawn. For demonstration purposes, Qilin has been chosen as an example to discuss the risk assessment of drought based on IEAPP-IDM model in detail.(1)The indicator values of Qilin from 2000 to 2010 are shown in Table 1.(2)Calculate the optimal projection direction and the projection scores

Figure 4 shows the process of how to obtain the optimal fitness value, which is equal to the best value of the projection objective function. As is shown in Figure 4, the best value of projection objective function is 0.419366 and the corresponding optimal projection direction is (0.08, 0.354, 0.11, 0.401, 0.029, 0.017, 0.371, 0.024, 0.078, 0.338, 0.473, 0.284, 0.041, 0.238, 0.246, 0.08).

The projection scores of samples in Qilin are calculated in Table 2.(3)Calculate the exceeding probability

According to the actual situation and the range of projection scores, the domain of drought risk level is set to and the discrete universe is . The exceeding probability under different values of drought risk level (see Table 3) and exceeding probability curve to drought risk level (see Figure 5) of Qilin are obtained.

The results illustrate the risk estimation, that is, the exceeding probability of drought risk level, which indicates the risk level of drought impacts occurring with a corresponding frequency probability. For example, the exceeding probability is 0.050252 when the risk level is 2.5, that means drought exceeding the risk level of 2.5 occurs every 19.90 years. The results also illustrate the exceeding probability is greater than 0.508417 when the drought risk level is below 1.45. It means every 1-2 years there will be a drought in the risk level of . Similarly, the probability of drought exceeding the risk level of 2.35 is 0.105279, indicating that drought exceeding that intensity occurs every 9-10 years.

Repeating the above methods and processes, the exceeding probability under different drought risk levels in other counties are calculated (see Table 4).

In this study, the drought risk level is divided into 9 levels. The probability risks of drought under each drought risk level may be obtained. The result in Table 4 illustrates the risk estimation of drought in Qujing. For example, the exceeding probabilities of 10% I are more than 0.92 in all counties in Qujing, that is to say that risk level of drought is normal in Qujing. In other words, the risk level of 10% I is small and has little impact.(4)Draw the maps of drought risk in Qujing

The comprehensive risk zoning maps of drought in Qujing are drawn in Figure 6. (a), (b), (c), and (d) illustrate the risk levels of 30% I, 40% I, 50% I, and 60% I, respectively.

(a)

(b)

(c)

(d)

Compared to the different values of drought risk level, for example, in the risk level of 50% I, the probability risk of drought in Xuanwei, Luoping, and Shizong is the highest. Table 4 also shows that the probability risk in these three areas are more than 0.562986 and recurrence interval years are less than 1.7, that is to say, these areas will have a drought exceeding the value of 50% I every 1-2 years. Under the same drought risk level, the recurrence interval years of Zhanyi are 2.7, Qilin, Luliang, and Fuyuan are 2.1 to 2.4, and Malong and Huize are 1.9. From the counties under different drought risk level, the probability risk of drought in Xuanwei, Luoping, and Shizong is higher than other counties, while Zhanyi and Luliang is lower than other counties.

5. Conclusions

In this study, a new model for risk assessment of drought based on projection pursuit optimized by immune evolutionary algorithm and information diffusion method (IEAPP-IDM) was developed. Then, based on the natural disaster system theory and integrated risk factors of drought, including sensitivity of hazard-inducing environment, dangerousness of hazard-formative factors, and vulnerability of hazard-affected bodies, the indicator system of drought risk assessment was established. The model can deal with the uncertainty, fuzziness, and inaccuracy problem of the drought risk assessment and can obtain fairly stable results. Based on the IEAPP-IDM model and the indicator system, Qujing in Yunnan province was taken as a case study area. The results showed that, in the same level of drought risk, the exceeding probability of Xuanwei was maintained at a high level, while the exceeding probability of Luliang and Zhanyi was maintained at a low level. At the same time, the probability risk of drought in Malong and Luoping is increasing, while the probability risk of drought in Qilin and Shizong is decreasing. The results are consistent with the actual situation of Qujing and can provide reference for the emergency management department; meanwhile, the results have important significance for the planning and development of disaster insurance programs of the insurance company. However, due to the complexity of risk evaluation of drought, it is necessary to further study the formation mechanism, indicator system, and risk management of regional drought.

Competing Interests

The authors declare that there are no competing interests regarding the publication of this paper.

Acknowledgments

This research was supported by the State Key Program of National Nature Science Foundation of China (Grant no. 71433003), the Major Program of National Social Science Foundation of China (Grant no. 12&ZD214), 2014 Jiangsu Province Qing Lan Project of China, and the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (Grant no. 2016B46414).

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