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Brief communication: Composite urban resilience to typhoon disasters – an assessment of 27 cities in seven major river basins, China

Year: 2025

Type: article

Abstract: . The urban resilience based on typhoon disasters are often not assessed. In this communication, we reflect on this issue by analyzing 27 cities around seven major river basin in mainland China. In specific, we build a comprehensive indicator-based model, and adopted the entropy-weighting TOPSIS method. Results show that the Hai River Basin and the provincial capitals had a higher resilience to typhoon than others, while cities of the Pearl River Basin are weaker. In some regions with weaker economy, however, the resilience was relatively higher partly attributing to infrastructure, water conservation projects, and level of information disclosure. The analysis is helpful for agencies and professionals to enhance urban capability of resilience, and provides a realistic reference in response to typhoon threats.

Source: Natural hazards and earth system sciences

DOI: 10.5194/nhess-25-2973-2025

Authors: Zezhao Liu, Jiahui Yang, Cong Wu

Institutions: Jiangsu Normal University, Nanjing University

Language: English

Topic: Disaster Management and Resilience

Subfield: Sociology and Political Science

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

SDGs: Sustainable cities and communities, Industry, innovation and infrastructure

Open Access status: gold

Estimated APC paid: $1,553