Disaster community resilience assessment method: a consensus-based Delphi and AHP approach

Saud Alshehri (), Yacine Rezgui () and Haijiang Li ()

Natural Hazards: Journal of the International Society for the Prevention and Mitigation of Natural Hazards, 2015, vol. 78, issue 1, 395-416

Abstract: Several studies have highlighted the importance of community resilience in disaster management. The paper focuses on Saudi Arabia and proposes a ‘community resilience to disaster’ framework. The dimensions of the framework have been developed using the consensus-based Delphi technique. A weighting system for each dimension and criteria is proposed using the analytic hierarchy process (AHP). Experts’ opinions were collected using pair-wise comparisons and then coded in AHP Expert Choice software to evaluate and give priorities to the possible outcomes of the process. The weighting system provides a quantitative and qualitative assessment tool to measure community resilience to disasters in Saudi Arabia and beyond. The findings emphasise the importance of a number of dimensions, including health and well-being (24.5 % of the total weight), governance (18 %), physical and environmental (17.4 %), economic (15.9 %), information and communication (14.3 %) and social (9.9 %). Copyright Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2015

Keywords: Weighting system; Assessment; Community resilience; Delphi; AHP (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1007/s11069-015-1719-5

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