Research Article

A Hybrid Z-Based MADM Model for the Evaluation of Urban Resilience

Table 1

The evaluation framework.

DimensionsAttributesDescriptionReferences

Social infrastructure and community connectivity (SI)Population density in urban area (SI1)Planned population per unit of land area in the urban planning area (unit: people/square kilometer)Monteiro et al. [28]; Borsekova et al. [29]; Kontokosta and Malik [3]; Zheng et al. [30]
Population over 65 years old (SI2)Number of people aged 65 or older registered in the household register (unit: number of persons)Monteiro et al. [28]; Kontokosta and Malik [3]; Zheng et al. [30]
Population under 5 years old (SI3)Number of people under the age of 5 registered in the household register (unit: number of persons)Kontokosta and Malik [3]; Zheng et al. [30]
Population of disabled people (SI4)The number of people with disability cards or certificates (unit: number of persons)Kontokosta and Malik [3]; Zheng et al. [30]
Population with Bachelor’s degree (SI5)Percentage of the population aged 15 or above with college education to the population aged 15 or above (unit: %)Kontokosta and Malik [3]
Number of families with low income (SI6)The number of people whose average household income is below the minimum cost of living standard (unit: number of persons)Monteiro et al. [28]
Number of single-person households (SI7)The number of people living alone who need care (the aged living alone booked for caring persons) (unit: number of persons)Kontokosta and Malik [3]

Contingency capacity (CC)Number of healthcare services (CC1)Medical institutions including public and nonpublic hospitals and clinics (unit: number of institutions)Zheng et al. [30]; Ghouchani et al. [34]
Number of emergency shelters (CC2)The number of emergency shelters in the city that can accommodate people (unit: number of shelters)Chen et al. [32]
Integrity of evacuation roads and rotes (CC3)The length of roads including national highways, provincial highways, county roads, rural roads, special highways, and urban roads; the length of urban roads refers to the length of roads with a road width of 6 meters or more in the urban planning area of each county and city (unit: km)Monteiro et al. [28]; Zheng et al. [30]
Stability of electricity supply (CC4)It refers to the number of households other than lighting customers of Taipower, including the number of households supplied by packaged electricity and electricity consumption (low voltage, high voltage, and extra-high voltage) (unit: number of households)Almeida et al. [33]
Stability of water supply (CC5)The ratio of the actual number of water users to the population of the administrative area (unit: %)Almeida et al. [33]
Ratio of police officers to population (CC6)Ratio of local police officers to the population (unit: %)Ghouchani et al. [34]
Ratio of firefighters to population (CC7)Ratio of local firefighters  100,000 to the population (unit: %)Ghouchani et al. [34]

Economic strength (ES)Unemployed population (ES1)The percentage of the unemployed population in the labor force (unit: %)Kontokosta and Malik [3]
Gini index for income inequality (ES2)Gini index or Gini concentration coefficient is a measure of the ratio of the area contained between the Lorenz distribution curve and the perfect parity line to the area of the entire triangle below the perfect parity line and is sometimes called the concentration ratio or the inequality coefficient (unit: from 0 to 1; the larger the coefficient, the higher the degree of inequality in distribution; the smaller the coefficient, the lower the degree of inequality)Kontokosta and Malik [3]
Outcome of business activities (ES3)The sales amount declared or approved by companies registered as for-profit businesses under regulations (unit: thousand New Taiwan dollars)Okada [35]
Number of existing businesses in urban area (ES4)The number of companies registered (unit: number of companies)Okada [35]
Disposable income on average households (ES5)Average disposable income per household (unit: New Taiwan dollars)Zheng et al. [30]; Okada [35]; Ghouchani et al. [34]

Environmental conditions (GC)Coverage of flood zone (GC1)The maximum possible flooding area in the jurisdiction is calculated by 650 mm of rain per hour for 24 consecutive hours (unit: meter square)Borsekova et al. [29]; Caldarice et al. [31]
Coverage of earthquake fault zone (GC2)The length of the fault zone in the jurisdiction (unit: meters)Borsekova et al. [29]
Number of fires per 10,000 households (GC3)The average number of fires per 10,000 households in a certain period (unit: number of times)Caldarice et al. [31]
Density of buildings (GC4)Number of buildings per square kilometer (unit: total number of buildings per square kilometer)Monteiro et al. [28]; Kontokosta and Malik [3]; Ghouchani et al. [34]
Number of buildings over 30 years old (GC5)Number of buildings more than 30 years old (unit: number of buildings)Monteiro et al. [28]