A composite indicator model to assess natural disaster risks in industry on a spatial level

Merz, Mirjam; Hiete, Michael; Schultmann, Frank

doi:10.1080/13669877.2012.737820

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“…Indicators reduction (based on correlation) is actually a very big dilemma in the development of composite indicators. There will always be positive correlation among indicators [8], while Saisana & Tarantola (2002 in [54]) opined that completely independent indicators cannot be selected if they measure the same phenomena. Though it is desired to use independent indicators, still some authors considered this issue as "unrealistic" [8].…”

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Flood Vulnerability Assessment through Different Methodological Approaches in the Context of North-West Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan

Nazeer

Bork

2019

Sustainability

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There are several approaches to assess flood vulnerability as a proactive measure to reduce the risk of flooding. The indicator-based approach is primarily practiced from a policy point of view through the use of composite indicators. Composite indicators can be built from very easy to very complex and sophisticated methods. However, there are two complications that arise with this issue. On the one hand, the flood vulnerability index should be fairly simple, taking into account the interdisciplinary nature of various stakeholders involved in flood risk management. While on the other hand, addressing the issue of subjectivity or prejudice should be scientifically defensible. As there is no a single universally “best” methodological approach for the construction of composite indicator due to its data-specific nature for each individual study. The aim of this study is therefore to construct such an index of flood vulnerability that is not only intuitive to a variety of stakeholders, but also scientifically justified in the context of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. Therefore, the current study demonstrated a detailed procedure to construct the flood vulnerability indices through different methodological approaches of data rescaling, weighting, and aggregation schemes, along with a fairly simple approach for robustness. For this purpose, data was collected through different (official) portals for the nine highly flood-prone districts of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. It was found that the weighting schemes had a greater influence on the flood vulnerability ranking of the selected districts compared to data rescaling and aggregation schemes. The simple model, which is the frequently using approach of building composite indicators in scientific community, was found to be appropriate for the selected data. The methodology adopted in the study can provide decision-makers and relevant authorities with a practical tool to identify and prioritize certain vulnerable areas and measures to mitigate current flood vulnerabilities while preparing for future flood risk mitigation in the province through a fairly simple and methodologically defensible approach.

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Flood Vulnerability Assessment through Different Methodological Approaches in the Context of North-West Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan

Nazeer

Bork

2019

Sustainability

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“…Particularly in densely populated and highly industrialized regions, fast-burning crises carry the risk of rapid propagation and escalation (Pederson et al, 2007). When critical infrastructures such as transportation, communication or power systems are disrupted, even for a short time, large regions can be impacted and incur important economic losses (Chang et al, 2007;Merz et al, 2013). To prevent harm to the population, environment and economy, fast and effective response is crucial (Körte, 2003;Van Den Eede et al, 2006).…”

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Improving situation awareness in crisis response teams: An experimental analysis of enriched information and centralized coordination

Walle

Brugghemans

Comes

2016

International Journal of Human-Computer Studies

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“…However, like non-structural drift-sensitive cost ratios, structural repair cost ratios are expected to have lower impact in total building replacement costs when compared to nonstructural acceleration-sensitive components and contents; (iii) industrial activities with higher input dependency, i.e. higher equipment and labour intensity and degree of labour specialization (Merz et al, 2013), such as the pharmaceutical industry, are more vulnerable to earthquakes. The vulnerability of these industrial activities is also associated to higher levels of uncertainty, mostly because of the high variability in the value of the fixed assets (e.g.…”

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Seismic Vulnerability and Property Losses to the Portuguese Industrial Steel Building Stock

Araújo

Castro

Marques

2018

UPjeng

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Industry plays a key role in the economy of a country, people welfare and socio-economic resilience to natural disasters. Earthquakes are known to have damaging impacts on industrial property and activity, oftentimes resulting in costly structural and non-structural losses to industrial buildings, business closure, production failure and job losses. Notwithstanding this fact, the industrial building stock has been continuously excluded from seismic risk models developed for Portugal as it is usually assumed that industrial buildings are expected to withstand strong earthquakes due to their lightweight and design governed by wind loads. The aim of this paper is thus to give a first contribution to the assessment of the seismic vulnerability and property losses of the existing Portuguese industrial steel building stock. Both losses to structural and non-structural components and industry-specific contents, such as production equipment and machinery, are taken into account. The expected direct industrial property losses for a probability of exceedance of 10 % in 50 years for mainland Portugal are herein estimated.

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A composite indicator model to assess natural disaster risks in industry on a spatial level

Cited by 38 publications

References 28 publications

Flood Vulnerability Assessment through Different Methodological Approaches in the Context of North-West Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan

Flood Vulnerability Assessment through Different Methodological Approaches in the Context of North-West Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan

Improving situation awareness in crisis response teams: An experimental analysis of enriched information and centralized coordination

Seismic Vulnerability and Property Losses to the Portuguese Industrial Steel Building Stock

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