The present paper focuses on the developing of a decision-making tool for emergency planning and response and in particular for flood incidents. The proposed tool is a simulator (i.e. computer based software) capable of identifying the “emergency machine” lacks, allowing also for improvement of specific areas of the emergency system, such as technical equipment, human factors, protocols, response time and sequence. There is an ongoing effort for better ways of protecting human life, land, property and the environment by improved flood management techniques. The present work has been elaborated within the Pre-Emergencies EC funded project, which aimed at the construction of a tool that would evaluate in a single measurable index the actual response level of a disaster management system in the case of both sudden and mounding risks. This tool can be used as a technical instrument to simulate the organisational and inter-organisational asset of a multi-actor civil protection group with the aim of highlighting strong and vulnerable elements of civil protection structures thought the use of a number of indices pertaining to characteristic parameters on four sub-layers of detail. By recognising that not all parameters have the same relevance in determining the performance of the emergency response, the categorization allows for the discarding of the least important ones by singling out a weighed scale of indices, through the use of the Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP). The AHP approach supports decision making in Emergency Preparedness through alternatives structured into a weighed multi-criteria framework.

FLOOD DISASTER MANAGEMENT WITH THE USE OF AHP

MANCA, DAVIDE;BRAMBILLA, SARA
2011-01-01

Abstract

The present paper focuses on the developing of a decision-making tool for emergency planning and response and in particular for flood incidents. The proposed tool is a simulator (i.e. computer based software) capable of identifying the “emergency machine” lacks, allowing also for improvement of specific areas of the emergency system, such as technical equipment, human factors, protocols, response time and sequence. There is an ongoing effort for better ways of protecting human life, land, property and the environment by improved flood management techniques. The present work has been elaborated within the Pre-Emergencies EC funded project, which aimed at the construction of a tool that would evaluate in a single measurable index the actual response level of a disaster management system in the case of both sudden and mounding risks. This tool can be used as a technical instrument to simulate the organisational and inter-organisational asset of a multi-actor civil protection group with the aim of highlighting strong and vulnerable elements of civil protection structures thought the use of a number of indices pertaining to characteristic parameters on four sub-layers of detail. By recognising that not all parameters have the same relevance in determining the performance of the emergency response, the categorization allows for the discarding of the least important ones by singling out a weighed scale of indices, through the use of the Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP). The AHP approach supports decision making in Emergency Preparedness through alternatives structured into a weighed multi-criteria framework.
2011
Proceedings of the International Symposium on the Analytic Hierarchy Process
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