Application of a triangular fuzzy AHP approach for flood risk evaluation and response measures analysis

Xiao-ling Yang (), Jie-hua Ding and Hui Hou

Natural Hazards: Journal of the International Society for the Prevention and Mitigation of Natural Hazards, 2013, vol. 68, issue 2, 657-674

Abstract: Flood risk evaluation and prediction represents an essential analytic step to coherently link flood control and disaster mitigation. The paper established a hybrid evaluation model based on fuzzy analytic hierarchy process (AHP) and triangular fuzzy number. It comprises flood risk evaluation and prediction to obtain risk factors ranking and comprehensive flood risk prediction, and then analyzed flood risk response measures. A case study is proposed entailing a flood risk evaluation and prediction in the Lower Yangtze River region. The evaluation results showed that the proposed evaluation and prediction model was capable of adequately representing the actual setting. In addition, a comparison with the previously described AHP and trapezoidal fuzzy AHP, and experimental results are encouraging, which fully demonstrates the effectiveness and superiority of the proposed model. Copyright Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2013

Keywords: Flood risk evaluation and prediction; Risk index; Triangular fuzzy AHP; Flood risk response measures (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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