Approaches to Enhance Urban Disaster Resilience

City disaster resilience and urban environmental cleanliness are two representative indicators used to assess the safety of human settlements in China’s Sustainability Development Goals (SDGs). Traditional research on SDGs mainly concentrated at large-scale spatial level, such as global level or national level. It brings unclear significance to the implementation of SDGs in the county-level. The goal of this paper is to find a new calculation method to apply the index of urban disaster resilience and urban environmental cleanliness to the evaluation of county-level areas. A localization of county-level city disaster resilience and urban environmental cleanliness based on Deqing County’s situation was carried out. With quantification and projections of local data, the assessments of city disaster resilience and urban environmental cleanliness have completed. The evaluation showed that city disaster resilience is maintained at a low level, while indicators of urban cleanliness are lower than standards. The prediction of urban per capita environmental impact index based on Grey Time-Series Prediction Model was finished. The forecast showed that the urban per capita impact indicators in the next three years have not exceeded the standard line. The two indicators used to assess the safety of human settlements were consistent with the sustainable development of urban settlement. Partial results of this research were reported as a “county sample” at the first UN Geographic Information Conference held in Deqing in 2018.

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Planning Emergency Shelters for Urban Disaster Resilience: An Integrated Location-Allocation Modeling Approach

Sustainability ◽

10.3390/su9112098 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 9 (11) ◽

pp. 2098 ◽

Cited By ~ 18

Author(s):

Laijun Zhao ◽

Huiyong Li ◽

Yan Sun ◽

Rongbing Huang ◽

Qingmi Hu ◽

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Keyword(s):

Disaster Resilience ◽

Location Allocation ◽

Modeling Approach ◽

Emergency Shelters ◽

Urban Disaster

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A Scientometric Review of Urban Disaster Resilience Research

International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health ◽

10.3390/ijerph18073677 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 18 (7) ◽

pp. 3677

Author(s):

Hui Xu ◽

Yang Li ◽

Yongtao Tan ◽

Ninghui Deng

Keyword(s):

Sustainable Development ◽

Urban Areas ◽

Management Strategies ◽

High Growth ◽

Urban System ◽

Disaster Risk ◽

High Growth Rate ◽

Disaster Resilience ◽

Research Directions ◽

Urban Disaster

Natural disasters and human-made disasters are threatening urban areas globally. The resilience capacity of the urban system plays an important role in disaster risk response and recovery. Strengthening urban disaster resilience is also fundamental to ensuring sustainable development. Various practices and research for enhancing urban disaster resilience have been carried out worldwide but are yet to be reviewed. Accordingly, this paper gives a scientometric review of urban disaster resilience research by using CiteSpace. The time span (January 2001–January 2021) was selected and divided into three phases based on the number of publications. In addition, according to keyword statistics and clustering results, the collected articles are grouped into four hotspot topics: disaster risk reduction, specific disaster resilience research, resilience assessment, and combination research. The results show that most of the existing research is in the first two categories, and articles in the second and fourth categories both show a high growth rate and could be further research directions. The review indicates that urban disaster resilience is essential for a city’s sustainable development. Moreover, the findings provide scholars a full picture of the existing urban disaster resilience research which can help them identify promising research directions. The findings can also help urban government officials and policymakers review current urban disaster management strategies and make further improvements.

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Measuring Resilience of Urban Slum to Climate Induced Disasters: A Study on Barishal City Corporation, Bangladesh

International Journal of Disaster Management ◽

10.24815/ijdm.v3i2.17815 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 3 (2) ◽

pp. 34-47

Author(s):

Ananya Mukherjee ◽

Md. Faisal ◽

Milton Kumar Saha

Keyword(s):

Urban Areas ◽

Public Awareness ◽

Secondary Data ◽

Urban Slum ◽

Primary Data ◽

Disaster Resilience ◽

Urban Resilience ◽

Secondary Sources ◽

Institutional Economic ◽

Urban Disaster

Measuring urban resilience is one of the important processes toward understanding the potential current and future risks of cities, assessing the challenges of urbanization and to guide the development of urban areas. The research was conducted in a slum named Bangabandhu Colony under Barishal City Corporation (BCC). The purpose of the research was to measure the urban disaster resilience and to find out a better way of future urban disaster resilience in this area. Climate Disaster Resilience Index (CDRI) was used to measure climate-related disaster resilience by considering five dimensions: physical, social, institutional, economic and natural which shows resilience level ranging from 1-5 where 1 representing very poor and 5 best. A semi-structured questionnaire was used for collecting the primary data and the secondary data was collected from secondary sources. Results revealed that the resilience level of physical, social, institutional, economic, and natural dimensions was 2.76, 2.79, 2.29, 2.53, 2.59 respectively, which indicates a medium resilience level of all dimensions. Finally, the research depicted that, the resilience level of the area will increase through hand to hand working of people with government and non-government officials, conducting public awareness programs, campaigns, seminars and discussions. The findings of the research can be used by researchers and development workers for enhancing disaster resilience of other areas under Barishal City Corporation as well as other city areas of Bangladesh.

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