Assessing social vulnerability to earthquake disaster using rough analytic hierarchy process method: A case study of Hanzhong City, China

Guo, Xuesong; Kapucu, Naim

doi:10.1016/j.ssci.2020.104625

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“…In addition, local authorities believe that the RSS restores key ecosystem services in these areas, alleviates poverty, improves the livelihoods of rural households, and promotes rapid economic growth and urbanization. More detailed information on this specific program is available in a series of studies by Guo and Kapucu [ 2 , 3 , 4 ].…”

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“…For example, in some parts of China, residents may perceive different probability levels associated with disaster-related risks and their potential consequences, and may have different levels of self-confidence about how to protect themselves from loss. Residents mainly resort to shangfang (petitioning high-level government authorities to appeal perceived unfair actions), jingzuo (sit-ins on the doorsteps of government buildings or on highways and railways to obstruct transportation), demonstrations, parades, or propagandizing their appeals by refusing to be resettled [ 2 , 3 , 4 ]. These problems continue to challenge a comprehensive understanding of disaster resettlement.…”

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Risk Information Seeking Behavior in Disaster Resettlement: A Case Study of Ankang City, China

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In 2011, the Chinese government launched a disaster mitigation and preparedness program called the Resettlement of South Shaanxi (RSS). Due to the wide geographical scope and complex interests, the possibility of conflicts was increased during and after resettlement. Efficient risk communication improves the supply of information about risks and meets the risk-related information needs of individuals. Using the risk information seeking and processing (RISP) model, this research applied a structural equation model and survey with a structured questionnaire to study ways to improve risk communication in disaster resettlement. A total of 616 valid questionnaires were provided by study respondents in resettlement sites in Ziyang County, Ankang City, Shaanxi Province. The results indicated the following: (1) the public’s information seeking behavior relies more on village committees and village officials than other channels. Emerging information channels, such as Weibo and WeChat (social media applications in China), do not play leading roles in disseminating risk information. (2) There are differences between the information channels used by residents and the channels that residents believe the most. (3) Relevant channel beliefs, information sufficiency, perceived hazard characteristics, and self-efficacy directly influence risk information seeking behavior. However, the capacity to gather information has non-significant direct influences on information seeking behavior. (4) Perceived hazard characteristics and self-efficacy drive risk information seeking behavior in both direct and indirect ways through information sufficiency.

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Risk Information Seeking Behavior in Disaster Resettlement: A Case Study of Ankang City, China

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“…Many researchers have developed methods for earthquake vulnerability assessment with various criteria and indicators. Some of them using pairwise comparison and AHP (Analytic Hierarchy Process) [6], Rough AHP [2], the combination of AHP and VIKOR (VIseKriterijumska Optimizacija I Kompromisno Resenje) [1], complex vulnerability index using SMCE (Spatial Multi-Criteria Evaluation) [9], and development of vulnerability indicators using catastrophe progression assessment [4]. However, the spatial resolution of also different, most of them in the urban-district scale, but one of them has a detailed scale in the village unit [1].…”

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“…The shifting paradigm of DRR that start from a detailed scale drives many researchers to develop an analysis method in a detailed scale. Most boarders methods used for developing vulnerability assessment are AHP (analytic hierarchy process) and SMCE (spatial multi-criteria evaluation), although they are not a new method [2]- [4]. Other development in vulnerability assessment also performed using Bayesian Network resulting in four criteria such as building damage, evacuation, resistant capacity, and loss of life [5].…”

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Earthquake vulnerability mapping in the at-risk Opak Fault, Sengon Village, Central Java, Indonesia

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This study aims to perform vulnerability assessment in a detailed scale at villages adjacent to Opak fault, Central Java. The study took place in Sengon Village, Prambanan District, Klaten Regency. Sengon is located near Opak fault zone and experienced tremendous disaster in 2006. The method for vulnerability assessment in earthquake hazard used in this study involves three criteria, i.e. physical, social, and economic with various indicators within. The mapping unit are hamlet units, which more detailed than village unit. The result of physical vulnerability assessment in Sengon village was dominated by a medium level of vulnerability. Sengon village has clustered settlement characteristics and this is a type of rural village in Indonesia. The advantage of clustered settlements is that there is a large evacuation site in this case paddy fields. The socio-economic vulnerability indicates that the majority of Sengon village are informal workers. This will have a big impact if an earthquake occurs because there will be many people lose their income. The total vulnerability assessment shows that all levels of vulnerability are distributed similarly. The advantage of this study is helpful to determine the action for reducing vulnerability especially in the at-risk of earthquake hazard.

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“…Moreover, objective information is still shortage during the assessment process in previous methods. (2) How to manage the condition that experts provide multisource heterogeneous assessment information? experts are willing to give numeric values for objective attributes, while they would rather provide qualitative assessment for subjective attributes.…”

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A novel weight‐derived method and its application in graduate students' physical health assessment

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Zhang

2020

Int J Intell Syst

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In multiattribute decision making, the analytic network process (ANP) is an important methodology to derive the subjective weights of attributes when the dependence and feedback relations exist between attributes, and the number of attributes should be no more than seven in a comparison matrix. To reduce the dimensions of attributes, we propose a hybrid hesitant fuzzy linguistic factor analysis method to cluster the attributes into main factors. The method takes multiple forms of decision-making information into consideration, such as single linguistic terms, hesitant fuzzy linguistic terms, and numeric values. Meanwhile, the objective weights of the main factors are obtained as well. As for the subjective weights of main factors, the incomplete probabilistic linguistic ANP is developed after improving the incomplete probabilistic linguistic preference relation with multiplicative consistency. At last, the final weights of the main factors are calculated by combining the objective and subjective weights. A questionnaire survey about assessing the weights of the main factors influencing graduate students' physical health is designed to explain the application of the proposed methodology. To sum up, the main importance and contributions of this study are as following: (1) developing a hybrid hesitant fuzzy linguistic factor analysis method and incomplete probabilistic linguistic ANP, (2) proposing a novel weight-derived method from both objective and subjective perspectives, and (3) applying it to graduate students' physical health assessment. K E Y W O R D S analytic network process, factor analysis, hybrid decision-making information, incomplete probabilistic linguistic preference relation, physical health assessment 1 | INTRODUCTION In multiattribute decision making, analytic hierarchic process (AHP) 1 is a classic and essential methodology to derive the weights of the pairwise elements (objectives, attributes, or alternatives) with layered and interlaced structure, which has various applications: social vulnerability assessment of earthquake disaster, 2 safety measures in the chemical industry 3 and risk management in distributed wind energy, 4 and so forth. Moreover, other researches about AHP have been developed. 5,6 However, if the dependence and feedback relations exist between the pairwise elements, the AHP method is unsuitable for solving such issues. Thus, Saaty 7 proposed another important method called the "analytic network process" (ANP) to tackle more practical problems. In the ANP, all attributes or alternatives are grouped into different clusters, and the preference matrix shows the dependence and feedback relations between these elements. Then, the initial weight of each element is derived and the final comprehensive weight is calculated. 8 Because of its practicability, the ANP has been utilized to solve many complex and practical problems, such as the modeling the drivers of urban land use changes in Lusaka, 9 analysis in referrals of children and adolescent victims of violence 10 and the priori...

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Assessing social vulnerability to earthquake disaster using rough analytic hierarchy process method: A case study of Hanzhong City, China

Cited by 48 publications

References 43 publications

Risk Information Seeking Behavior in Disaster Resettlement: A Case Study of Ankang City, China

Risk Information Seeking Behavior in Disaster Resettlement: A Case Study of Ankang City, China

Earthquake vulnerability mapping in the at-risk Opak Fault, Sengon Village, Central Java, Indonesia

A novel weight‐derived method and its application in graduate students' physical health assessment

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