Multi-hazard Disaster Scenario Method and Emergency Management for Urban Resilience by Integrating Experiment–Simulation–Field Data

The COVID-19 pandemic has caused significant economic and social impacts worldwide and revealed the importance and urgency of urban resilience enhancement. To learn the lessons from this pandemic, this study undertook a case study in Wuhan City, which was the first city in China where the outbreak was declared, and analyzed the process of its response to the pandemic. Based on the theory of emergency management, this study identified four stages of the emergency management process and conducted an in-depth analysis of the experience gained at each stage from the perspective of urban resilience. Then, this study evaluated the level of urban resilience of Wuhan City, and put forward suggestions for enhancement of the emergency system of China. The findings provided important revelation for other cities to cope with major disasters in the future.

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Resilience Assessment of Urban Emergency Management for Emergencies

E3S Web of Conferences ◽

10.1051/e3sconf/202127602015 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 276 ◽

pp. 02015

Author(s):

Wang Xu ◽

Wu Tianyan

Keyword(s):

Emergency Management ◽

Evaluation System ◽

Scientific Basis ◽

Urban Resilience ◽

The Sustainable Development ◽

State Response ◽

System A ◽

Huge Impact ◽

Change Trend ◽

The City

In recent years, urban emergency management and urban resilience have gradually become the main focus of research on the sustainable development of cities in the future due to the huge impact brought by the outbreak of epidemics and urban emergencies. Based on the Pressure-State-Response (PSR) model, this study attempts to longitudinal evaluate the time series of Xuhui District in Shanghai from the pressure layer, state layer and response layer. Based on the understanding of the current situation of the city and the change trend of the past years in advance, and combining with the urban evaluation system, a scientific conclusion is drawn that the resilience of Xuhui District of Shanghai is declining year by year, which provides a scientific basis for the decision-making of urban future development and urban resource allocation.

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Effective Plans for Hospital System Response to Earthquake Emergencies

10.31224/osf.io/nyqug ◽

2019 ◽

Author(s):

Luis Ceferino ◽

Juidith Mitrani ◽

Anne Kiremidjian ◽

Gregory Deierlein ◽

Celso Bambarén

Keyword(s):

Emergency Response ◽

Critical Role ◽

System Response ◽

Urban Resilience ◽

Emergency Plans ◽

Hospital System ◽

Patient Transfers ◽

Hospital Systems ◽

Medical Teams ◽

Disaster Scenario

Hospital systems play a critical role in treating injuries and preventing additional deaths during disaster emergency response. Natural disasters hinder the ability of hospital systems to operate at full capacity. Therefore, it is important for cities to develop policies and standards that enable hospitals' continuous operations to provide patients with timely treatment and ensure urban resilience. Here, we present a methodology to evaluate emergency response based on a probabilistic model that assesses the loss of hospital functions and quantifies multiseverity injuries as a result of earthquake damage. The proposed methodology is able to design effective plans for patient transferal and allocation of medical resources using an optimization formulation. This methodology is applied to Lima, Peru, subjected to a disaster scenario based on the M 8.0 earthquake that occurred there in 1940. Our results show that the spatial distribution of health service demands mismatches the post-earthquake capacities of hospitals, leaving large zones on the periphery of Lima significantly underserved. This study demonstrates how emergency plans that leverage hospital-system coordination can address this demand-capacity mismatch, enabling effective patient transfers, ambulance usage, and deployment of emergency medical teams.

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Emergency Management and Tourism Stakeholder Responses to Crises

Journal of Travel Research ◽

10.1177/0047287516641516 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 56 (3) ◽

pp. 299-316 ◽

Cited By ~ 22

Author(s):

Yeganeh Morakabati ◽

Stephen J. Page ◽

John Fletcher

Keyword(s):

Emergency Management ◽

Building Block ◽

Global Perspective ◽

Delphi Exercise ◽

Speed Up ◽

Scenario Technique ◽

Disaster Scenario ◽

Industry Sectors

This article examines the contested area of the responsibility for destinations and tourists, within emergency settings. It incorporates a Delphi-Scenario technique to facilitate a structured discussion of emergency management for different destination stakeholders. The Delphi exercise engaged 123 senior international stakeholders, from 9 different industry sectors, across 34 countries to provide a global perspective. The study’s principal focus is on the notion of emergency management, to identify the challenges that stakeholders would face within a disaster scenario. The exercise asked stakeholders to identify with whom the responsibility rests for 18 distinct disaster-related activities. The study proposes a responsibility allocation building-block framework that could help speed up the emergency management responses by “knowing who is going to do what” with a particular focus on dealing with international tourists as a community in a disaster zone.

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