Applying MCDA to weight indicators of seaport vulnerability to climate and extreme weather impacts for U.S. North Atlantic ports

McIntosh, R. Duncan; Becker, Austin

doi:10.1007/s10669-020-09767-y

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“…AHP has been widely adopted by academics in multiples studies [51][52][53]. Although AHP has been applied to commercial ports [54,55], there is a lack of application in the management of marinas [56].…”

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Assessing the Relationship between Landscape and Management within Marinas: The Managers’ Perception

Martín

Piqueras

2022

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Marinas are maritime features related to nautical tourism. The contemplation of pleasant surroundings acquires great importance in achieving this leisure character. The European Landscape Convention undertakes the necessity of integrating landscape into the planning policies. Thus, the marina’s management decision-making processes should reflect this awareness of the landscape. However, the landscape evaluation has not been appropriately considered despite its importance. This research attempts to introduce an initial framework to evaluate this influence, highlighting the strengths and weaknesses of the different subjects. For this purpose, the most significant elements of the marina management related to the landscape were rated, both from management and landscape perspectives. Two expert panels from Spain were used: 23 experts evaluated the above elements following the Delphi method, and 17 weighted the main management activities using DHP. Results show that there is a lack of concern for the landscape. Managers tend to consider physical conditions, whereas subjective conditions are relegated to the background. In this respect, this methodology provides the first stage for the landscape/management relationship, helping managers identify the main topics and prioritize related actions.

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Assessing the Relationship between Landscape and Management within Marinas: The Managers’ Perception

Martín

Piqueras

2022

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“…In our application, we chose to use the FAHP method, which is the fuzzy extension of the AHP method and integrates the following advantages of the AHP: (1) the AHP is a widely used MCDA method in many applications and problems according to the survey results in [ 11 ]; (2) psychologists have discovered that it is easier to make judgments on a pair of alternatives at a time than simultaneously on all the alternatives [ 12 ]; (3) the weights can be obtained by solving the eigenvalue problem for the comparison matrix while maintaining the relative importance for each pair of factors. In [ 35 ], the risk evaluation part introduced the AHP for determining the weights of risk factors.…”

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“…The AHP is commonly used for assessment purposes [ 11 ]. The AHP method can assign weights by solving eigenvalue problems [ 12 ] while keeping consistency of the relative importance between each pair of factors [ 6 ]. Moreover, in order to synthesize the knowledge from different experts in the field of fire safety management, the FAHP was finally chosen to assign weights to the categories and fire risk factors in the proposed fire risk evaluation system [ 13 , 14 ].…”

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A Novel Fire Risk Assessment Approach for Large-Scale Commercial and High-Rise Buildings Based on Fuzzy Analytic Hierarchy Process (FAHP) and Coupling Revision

Wang

Hou

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IJERPH

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In recent years, much more emphasis than before has been placed on fire safety regulations by the local and central authorities of China, which makes fire risk assessments more important. In this paper we propose a new fire risk assessment approach for large-scale commercial and high-rise buildings that aims to evaluate the performances of their fire safety systems; this should improve the fire risk management and public safety in those buildings. According to the features of large-scale commercial and high-rise buildings, a fire-risk indexing system was built, and based on it we established a scientific fire risk evaluation system. To this end, the fuzzy analytic hierarchy process (FAHP) was used to assign a reasonable weight to each fire risk factor in the evaluation system. In addition, we revised the original scores by analyzing the coupling relationships among the fire risk factors. To validate our system, we selected 11 buildings in Shandong province and collected their fire safety data. Then, we calculated the final scores for the fire safety management of those buildings, and the results show that: (1) our fire risk evaluation system can assign reasonable weights; (2) the proposed evaluation system is comprehensive and has strong interpretability, since it exploits the coupling relationships among the risk factors. The novelty of the proposed approach lies in that it integrates opinions from multiple experts and utilizes coupling relationships among the factors. Further, the feedback from the approach can find not only the weaknesses in fire risk management, but also the potential causes of fires. As a result, the feedback from our assessment can assist the safety chiefs and inspectors with improving fire risk management.

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“…Decision attributes are often chosen based on expert opinions, literature, or a combination of the two. The expertbased approach refers to drawing out information from stakeholders, actors, and DMs to articulate important decision factors in a specific context (e.g., McIntosh and Becker 2020;Elboshy et al 2019;Mirzaee et al 2019). The expertbased approach has the benefit of being based on the experiences of experts who possess the knowledge contextually related to the values of the decision context (assuming that the desired properties of stakeholder analysis, interviews, inclusion criteria of interviewees, and aggregation methods are met).…”

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

Zamanifar

Hartmann

2021

Environ Syst Decis

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This paper proposes a framework to systematically evaluate and select attributes of decision models used in disaster risk management. In doing so, we formalized the attribute selection process as a sequential screening-utility problem by formulating a prescriptive decision model. The aim is to assist decision-makers in producing a ranked list of attributes and selecting a set among them. We developed an evaluation process consisting of ten criteria in three sequential stages. We used a combination of three decision rules for the evaluation process, alongside mathematically integrated compensatory and non-compensatory techniques as the aggregation methods. We implemented the framework in the context of disaster resilient transportation network to investigate its performance and outcomes. Results show that the framework acted as an inclusive systematic decision aiding mechanism and promoted creative and collaborative decision-making. Preliminary investigations suggest the successful application of the framework in evaluating and selecting a tenable set of attributes. Further analyses are required to discuss the performance of the produced attributes. The properties of the resulting attributes and feedback of the users suggest the quality of outcomes compared to the retrospective attributes that were selected in an unaided selection process. Research and practice can use the framework to conduct a systematic problem-structuring phase of decision analysis and select an equitable set of decision attributes.

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Applying MCDA to weight indicators of seaport vulnerability to climate and extreme weather impacts for U.S. North Atlantic ports

Cited by 20 publications

References 43 publications

Assessing the Relationship between Landscape and Management within Marinas: The Managers’ Perception

Assessing the Relationship between Landscape and Management within Marinas: The Managers’ Perception

A Novel Fire Risk Assessment Approach for Large-Scale Commercial and High-Rise Buildings Based on Fuzzy Analytic Hierarchy Process (FAHP) and Coupling Revision

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

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