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Advances in Emergency and Recovery Planning to Enhance Resilience Practices

A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Hazards and Sustainability".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 May 2023) | Viewed by 8134

Special Issue Editors

Prof. Dr. Adriana Galderisi

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Department of Architecture and Industrial Design, University of Campania Luigi Vanvitelli Aversa, Aversa (CE), Italy
Interests: disaster risk reduction; urban resilience; spatial planning; sustainable development
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Prof. Dr. Scira Menoni

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Department of Architecture, Built Environment and Construction Engineering, Politecnico of Milan, Caserta, Italy
Interests: damage assessment; spatial planning; risk mitigation and management

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Despite the significant efforts globally undertaken since the 1970s in the field of disaster risk reduction, the constantly increasing number and frequency of damaging events, due to the changing climate conditions as well as growing exposure and vulnerability, continue straining the ability of local communities to cope and recover from disaster impacts. The Sendai Framework (2015-2030) clearly highlights the need to still invest in disaster risk prevention and mitigation while further strengthening disaster preparedness, underlining how planning ahead of a disaster has to be considered a critical opportunity to improve communities’ resilience in the face of hazardous events.

The development of pre-disaster emergency and recovery plans is considered of paramount importance to better cope with the numerous issues arising both in the aftermath of hazardous events—from evacuation procedures to first aid to hit populations—and after the crisis time, in the recovery phase, when a new, albeit temporarily, normalcy has to be ensured to local communities.

However, the effectiveness of both emergency and recovery plans largely depends on the overall features of the complex process (available knowledge, governance issues, tools to foster participatory approaches, etc.) aimed at increasing the response and recovery capacity of local communities and institutions along the different post-event phases.

Based on the above, the Special Issue aims at collecting articles providing approaches, methods, tools and best practices to improve current emergency and recovery planning processes. Critical reflection on current gaps and barriers limiting the effectiveness of these process as well as on the interactions between spatial planning, emergency, and recovery planning are also welcome.

Prof. Dr. Adriana Galderisi
Prof. Dr. Scira Menoni
Guest Editors

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Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Sustainability is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2400 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

Keywords

  • emergency planning
  • recovery planning
  • uncertainty
  • risk scenarios
  • governance models
  • build back better
  • stakeholders engagement
  • community resilience

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Evaluation Model of Urban Resilience in the Face of Public Health Emergencies: A Case Study of Xi’an
by Yifan Liu, Xunchang Li, Wei Yang, Rui Xu and Yuang Qi
Sustainability 2023, 15(16), 12106; https://doi.org/10.3390/su151612106 - 8 Aug 2023
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In recent years, there have been frequent outbreaks of public health emergencies worldwide, especially resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic, which has seriously affected social and economic development and people’s production and life. In order to avoid or minimize the harm caused by these [...] Read more.
In recent years, there have been frequent outbreaks of public health emergencies worldwide, especially resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic, which has seriously affected social and economic development and people’s production and life. In order to avoid or minimize the harm caused by these emergencies to society and the public, this article constructs a resilience indicator system for urban emergency response capabilities based on resistance, adaptation, and recovery. We establish a dynamic model of urban emergency response resilience, select the infectious disease dynamics method as the index weight calculation method, analyze the correlations among various indicators and parameters of the urban emergency response resilience system, and conduct sensitivity analysis on the model parameters to determine the importance sequence of each model parameter. Combined with the fuzzy hierarchy analysis method, we evaluate the model and use the 2021 year-end epidemic in Xi’an as an example to evaluate the urban emergency response resilience level using the evaluation model. According to the maximum membership degree principle, the results show that the emergency resilience levels of Xi’an were “moderately strong”, “moderately strong”, and “strong” in the first, second, and third stages of the epidemic, respectively. The results demonstrate that the method proposed in this article can objectively reflect the current level of urban emergency resilience and provide some references and guidance for improving the resilience of urban emergency response to public health emergencies. Full article
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A Method for the Definition of Emergency Rescue Routes Based on the Out-of-Plane Seismic Collapse of Masonry Infills in Reinforced-Concrete-Framed Buildings
by Mauro Francini, Sara Gaudio, Carolina Salvo, Fabio Mazza and Angelo Donnici
Sustainability 2022, 14(22), 15420; https://doi.org/10.3390/su142215420 - 20 Nov 2022
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One of the main goals of disaster management planning is to ensure the effectiveness of the emergency measures when a hazard occurs. This happens only if the decision-makers use operational tools considering the structural characteristics of urban systems. Starting from these assumptions, the [...] Read more.
One of the main goals of disaster management planning is to ensure the effectiveness of the emergency measures when a hazard occurs. This happens only if the decision-makers use operational tools considering the structural characteristics of urban systems. Starting from these assumptions, the authors proposed an emergency management method based on the integrated work between two different scientific sectors, the urban planning and construction engineering sectors. The proposed method aims to evaluate the practicability of the strategic road network, as well as defining the emergency rescue routes based on the out-of-plane (OOP) seismic collapse of masonry infills (MIs) in reinforced concrete (RC)-framed buildings. The OOP failure of MIs is predicted according to an innovative MI macro-model. The authors test the method on a geographic area in the municipality of Gioia Tauro (Reggio Calabria, Italy). The results show that due to the collapse of MIs, the functionality of the strategic road network in emergency conditions can be compromised, causing losses of the urban systems’ performance. Based on the obtained results, the authors recommend that decision-makers use the proposed methodology to identify the vulnerable rescue paths and to locate the strategic infrastructure while spending the financial resources in a more effective way. Full article
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Research on Emergency Supply Chain Collaboration Based on Tripartite Evolutionary Game
by Jiguang Wang, Yushang Hu, Weihua Qu and Liuxin Ma
Sustainability 2022, 14(19), 11893; https://doi.org/10.3390/su141911893 - 21 Sep 2022
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To explore the optimal mechanism of emergency supply chain collaboration when an epidemic crisis occurs, we construct a tripartite evolutionary game model of emergency collaboration among the government, the retailer, and the supplier to explore the interaction of primary strategies and the impact [...] Read more.
To explore the optimal mechanism of emergency supply chain collaboration when an epidemic crisis occurs, we construct a tripartite evolutionary game model of emergency collaboration among the government, the retailer, and the supplier to explore the interaction of primary strategies and the impact of critical parameters on the evolution and stability of the system. We conduct simulation analysis based on the actual situation of China’s emergency supply chain development. The research results show that in the recognition period of the crisis, the government participates in emergency supervision and the retailer participates in emergency collaboration, but the supplier does not participate in emergency collaboration. However, in the containment period of the crisis, the government increases penalties, provides appropriate emergency subsidies, and improves the efficiency of emergency supervision, which are conducive to promoting the supplier’s participation in emergency collaboration. In the recovery period of the crisis, as the benefits of both the retailer and the supplier participation in emergency collaboration increase, the government will withdraw from emergency supervision gradually. Moreover, the weaker the risk of supply chain enterprises participating in emergency collaboration, the more reasonable the distribution of the collaboration benefits, and the more conducive to the spontaneous emergency collaboration of the retailer and the supplier. Full article
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Investigating Pedestrians’ Exit Choice with Incident Location Awareness in an Emergency in a Multi-Level Shopping Complex
by Kayvan Aghabayk, Alireza Soltani and Nirajan Shiwakoti
Sustainability 2022, 14(19), 11875; https://doi.org/10.3390/su141911875 - 21 Sep 2022
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Limited studies have investigated pedestrians’ exit choices in an emergency in multi-level commercial buildings. In particular, the comparison between exit choices before and after awareness of an incident location is non-existent in the literature. Likewise, the influence of individual attributes, such as the [...] Read more.
Limited studies have investigated pedestrians’ exit choices in an emergency in multi-level commercial buildings. In particular, the comparison between exit choices before and after awareness of an incident location is non-existent in the literature. Likewise, the influence of individual attributes, such as the presence of a child or a companion, on the individual’s exit choice in complex architectural layouts has rarely been studied in the literature. This paper aims to address these knowledge gaps by investigating pedestrians’ exit choice behavior in an emergency at a multi-level shopping complex considering exit choice behavior before and after awareness of incident location and the influence of personal attributes (e.g., presence of a child or companion). A survey of 1271 pedestrians for two hypothetical emergency scenarios in a multi-level shopping center in Tehran, Iran was conducted. A tablet-based simulator of a multi-story commercial complex was designed, and on-site interviews were conducted. In the first scenario, participants were asked to select their preferred exit door at the start of the emergency alarm without being informed about the incident location. In the next scenario, the scene of an incident (fire) was displayed without altering the conditions, and pedestrians were asked to choose their desired exit. The utility models investigated the differences in pedestrians’ behavior before and after awareness of the fire location. The models show differences in pedestrian decisions to evacuate and select the exit when the fire location information was available compared to when only emergency alarm information was available. Further, differences in evacuation strategy between the people who preferred to delay the exit and those who preferred to exit immediately were observed. Participants with children were more concerned about the ease of moving on the route and preferred a less congested route and exit area. Differences in evacuation behavior on the ground floor and other floors were also observed. Full article
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