A systematic literature review on multi-criteria decision making in disaster management

Abstract

This paper through a systematic literature review portrays the academic work that has been done in disaster management by applying multi-criteria decision making. This study reviews 36 academic articles that applied multi-criteria decision-making planning and management of natural disasters i.e. tsunami, floods, heavy rains, earthquake, land sliding, epidemic, pandemic, etc. This study finds out that lack of effective planning and management pre and post disasters is causing loss of human life, temporary migration of locals to safer places, loss of properties, and economic losses. Once the crisis is over, it requires efforts and additional finances to bring life to normal. There are regions where disasters are periodic such as floods in rivers or due to monsoon season. But with effective planning and pre-determined priorities, loss to human life can be mitigated. Disaster management departments need effective planning tools to forecast imminent disasters and prepare accordingly. This study is very relevant to the recent global pandemic COVID-19 that has caused human and economic losses and will leave footprints for the coming years and generations

Prioritization of Action Plans for Disaster Management using Hesitant Fuzzy Linguistic SAW-COPRAS Methods

“…After the disaster, it is crucial to shorten the return to everyday life and heal the wounds. In disaster management literature, the majority of the papers have studied the relief phase, that is followed by the preparation phase, and just a few papers studied the recovery phase (Mishra et al 2019;Manyaga et al 2020).…”

“…Merad et al (2004) used the ELECTRE-TRI method for mining induced hazards, while Opricovic and Tzeng (2003) employed a fuzzy multicriteria model for earthquakes. AHP, VIKOR, ANP, ELECTRE, TOPSIS, and TODIM are the most frequently used MCDM techniques (Opricovic and Tzeng 2003;Merad et al 2004;Jun et al 2013;Khosraviet al 2014;Manyaga et al 2020). Jena et al (2020) recently integrated AHP-VIKOR methods for flood disasters.…”

“…Jena et al (2020) recently integrated AHP-VIKOR methods for flood disasters. It is important to emphasize that the publications are focused on the regions where disasters are frequent such as Indonesia, Thailand, China, Brazil, India, Turkey, Iran, Columbia, USA, Netherlands, South Korea, Australia, and China (Manyaga et al 2020).…”

A prescriptive framework for recommending decision attributes of infrastructure disaster recovery problems

“…Studies have pointed out the role of MCDA in the decision modeling processes used for risk assessment, resilience, and recovery planning (e.g., Cegan et al 2017;Rand et al 2020;Manyaga et al 2020). Keisler and Linkov (2014) highlight the utility and favorability of MCDA, such as linear additive scoring models in decision recommendations for environment models.…”

A Multi-objective Model for the Location of the Emergency Facilities and the Selection of the Rescue Path Based on the Restoration of the Damaged Edges

“…Decision Support Systems (DSS) are helpful tools for the management of disasters (van de Walle & Turoff, 2008;Quansah, Engel & Rochon, 2010). Various models and multicriteria methods have been proposed for decision-making in disaster management (Zhou et al, 2018;Manyaga, Nilufer & Hajaoui, 2020). In particular, in case of earthquakes, timely post disaster rescue operations could not only reduce greater casualties, but also avoid greater losses to property.…”