Abstract
Community resilience is becoming a growing concern for authorities and decision makers. This paper introduces two indicator-based methods to evaluate the resilience of communities based on the PEOPLES framework. PEOPLES is a multi-layered framework that defines community resilience using seven dimensions. Each of the dimensions is described through a set of resilience indicators collected from literature and they are linked to a measure allowing the analytical computation of the indicator’s performance. The first method proposed in this paper requires data on previous disasters as an input and returns as output a performance function for each indicator and a performance function for the whole community. The second method exploits a knowledge-based fuzzy modeling for its implementation. This method allows a quantitative evaluation of the PEOPLES indicators using descriptive knowledge rather than deterministic data including the uncertainty involved in the analysis. The output of the fuzzy-based method is a resilience index for each indicator as well as a resilience index for the community. The paper also introduces an open source online tool in which the first method is implemented. A case study illustrating the application of the first method and the usage of the tool is also provided in the paper.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 261-275 |
Number of pages | 15 |
Journal | Earthquake Engineering and Engineering Vibration |
Volume | 17 |
Issue number | 2 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2018 |
Externally published | Yes |
Keywords
- Deterministic approach
- Earthquake resilience
- fuzzy method
- PEOPLES framework
- resilience indicators