Towards disaster-resilient cities: an approach for setting priorities in infrastructure mitigation efforts

Timothy L. McDaniels (), Stephanie E. Chang, David Hawkins, Gerard Chew and Holly Longstaff
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Timothy L. McDaniels: University of British Columbia
Stephanie E. Chang: University of British Columbia
David Hawkins: University of British Columbia
Gerard Chew: University of British Columbia
Holly Longstaff: University of British Columbia

Environment Systems and Decisions, 2015, vol. 35, issue 2, 252-263

Abstract: Abstract Making cities more disaster resilient is an important goal for civil society. We develop and apply a method to elicit ranked preferences to set priorities among alternatives for a small set of selected contexts for improving regional infrastructure resilience. Our approach is based on preference judgments from representatives of infrastructure systems and civil society, in which we characterize the key steps in framing how to select, characterize, and evaluate alternatives in a given decision context. We then provide an approach to ranking alternatives for a given potential infrastructure failure interaction risk, relying on an expert panel approach. We discuss the evaluation of this approach by the participants and views of its advantages and disadvantages. We also offer some caveats and suggestions for future applications. Key findings include understanding of what is needed to set responsible priorities for regional infrastructure resilience, and the specific findings, for the region of interest, include priorities for enhancing fuel supply, water supply, and road mobility.

Keywords: Infrastructure systems; Resilience; Infrastructure failure interdependencies; Mitigation priority setting; Risk ranking; Expert elicitation; Preference ranking (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1007/s10669-015-9544-7

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