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Towards a resilient community: A decision support framework for prioritizing stakeholders' interaction areas.
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Reliability Engineering & System Safety . Sep2023, Vol. 237, pN.PAG-N.PAG. 1p. - Publication Year :
- 2023
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Abstract
- • Interactions among community stakeholders act as a buffer against disasters. • A novel decision support framework to prioritize areas of stakeholder interaction. • The framework integrates a Delphi study with centrality measures. Interactions among community stakeholders act as a buffer against disasters and present a way to build community resilience. Several decision support frameworks have been proposed in the literature to improve community resilience, but none focus on interactions among stakeholders. This paper presents a decision support framework to guide decision-makers in prioritizing areas of interaction based on their mutual impact. The framework is built on three components. The first involved conducting a literature review to identify areas of interaction among community stakeholders; resulting in identifying 27 factors that reflect the various interaction areas. The second was to implement a Delphi study to capture the dependency among the different areas. The third was to prioritize the identified areas of interaction through network analysis techniques to understand the propagating impacts of a change in one area on the others. The framework was applied to Spain, utilizing data provided by Spanish resilience experts. Our findings indicate a high degree of interdependence among all areas of interaction. Decentralization of the decision-making process and effective leading capabilities of emergency organizations have been identified as top priority areas. By utilizing this framework, decision-makers can systematically enhance interactions among diverse stakeholders, creating a roadmap to improve community resilience. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- *COMMUNITY support
*LITERATURE reviews
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- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 09518320
- Volume :
- 237
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Reliability Engineering & System Safety
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 164260154
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ress.2023.109358