Researchers from Jiangsu Normal University Provide Details of New Studies and Findings in the Area of Risk Management (Assessing urban resilience to public health disaster using the rough analytic hierarchy process method: A regional study in …): Insurance – Risk Management

2022 JUN 07 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Insurance Daily News -- Research findings on risk management are discussed in a new report. According to news reporting out of Xuzhou, People’s Republic of China, by NewsRx editors, research stated, “In the context of frequent occurrences of disasters worldwide, disaster-coping capability is imperative for risk reduction and contemporary emergency management.”

Our news reporters obtained a quote from the research from Jiangsu Normal University: “The global COVID-19 pandemic since 2020 has further highlighted the significance of resilience construction at different geographical scales. Overall, the conceptual cognition of resilience in disaster management covers multiple elements and has diverse yielding on regional assessment. This study assesses the local resilience to the public health disaster at the prefecture-level cities, focusing on two dimensions consisting of vulnerability and capability in the targeted provincial region of Jiangsu in China. To this end, based on the vulnerability-capability framework, the Rough Analytic Hierarchy Process (RAHP) method was applied to the resilience assessment. Drawing upon the criteria derived from literature, the criteria weights were determined with the RAHP method and we assessed urban resilience with census data. In addition, the hierarchical factors contributing to urban resilience were determined using robustness analysis.”

According to the news editors, the research concluded: “This research provides constructive ideas for regional disaster reduction and contributes to the government’s capability to improve urban resilience.”

For more information on this research see: Assessing urban resilience to public health disaster using the rough analytic hierarchy process method: A regional study in China. Journal of Safety Science and Resilience, 2022,3(2):93-104. The publisher for Journal of Safety Science and Resilience is KeAi Communications Co., Ltd.

A free version of this journal article is available at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jnlssr.2021.12.003.

Our news journalists report that more information may be obtained by contacting Zezhao Liu, School of Public Administration and Sociology, Jiangsu Normal University, Xuzhou 221116, People’s Republic of China. Additional authors for this research include Rui Ma, HuiJia Wang. Our reports deliver fact-based news of research and discoveries from around the world.