Modelling a community resilience index for urban flood-prone areas of Kerala, India (CRIF)

Sameer Ali () and Abraham George ()
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Sameer Ali: IIT Kharagpur
Abraham George: IIT Kharagpur

Natural Hazards: Journal of the International Society for the Prevention and Mitigation of Natural Hazards, 2022, vol. 113, issue 1, No 11, 286 pages

Abstract: Abstract Communities are ever-evolving, cities are constantly expanding, and the threat of natural hazards has escalated like never before. Cities can develop and prosper only if their society is resilient to external shocks. Measuring community resilience over time is crucial with the influence of technology and change in community lifestyles. With the frequent onset of floods in Kerala in recent years, the community must be well-prepared for future calamities. Thus, this paper develops a community resilience index for Kerala’s urban flood-prone areas (CRIF) through a rigorous bottom-up approach. The criteria for the index were developed using multi-criteria decision analysis that covered a fuzzy Delphi study, an empirical study using multi-variate probit regression, and an AHP analysis. The fuzzy Delphi study selected seven criteria: ‘social’, ‘economical’, ‘governance/political’, ‘health’, ‘communication/coordination, ‘education’, and ‘infrastructure’ from 65 experts. The empirical study helped apprehend the public’s viewpoints under each criterion. Finally, the AHP analysis helped assign appropriate weights to the criteria which 28 experts designated. The index is also designed according to the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction (2015–2030). Further, the CRIF Index is put into action through a case study of the Kochi Municipal Corporation area, and the results are also validated using the Spearman’s rank correlation coefficient method. Results from validation returned a value of 0.7209 for the perceived CRIF method and 0.5798 for the external validation method, which corresponds to a ‘high’ and ‘moderate’ correlation, respectively.

Keywords: Multi-criteria decision analysis; Communities; Disaster mitigation; Empirical study; Validation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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