An Assessment Model of Institutional Resilience in Urban Emergency Management

Author

Ni, Huihui ; Chen, An

Author_Institution

Inst. of Policy & Manage., Chinese Acad. of Sci., Beijing, China

fYear

2009

fDate

20-22 Sept. 2009

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

5

Abstract

Emergency institutions are the most important force to dispose and eliminate incidents and relieve the stress of urban public safety. The assessment of the capability of emergency institution is an important issue in urban emergency management to identify the defects of institutions and provide useful information to improve the overall capability of the entire urban region. This paper introduces the concept of institutional resilience and presents a quantitative assessment model based on the analysis of influencing factors. A simulated case study demonstrates the effectiveness and feasibility of the model in the identification and comparison of institutional resilience.

Keywords

emergency services; management; assessment model; emergency institutions; influencing factors; institutional resilience; quantitative assessment; urban emergency management; urban public safety; Cities and towns; Disaster management; Ecosystems; Electric shock; Resilience; Safety; Sea measurements; Standardization; Stress; Terrorism;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Management and Service Science, 2009. MASS '09. International Conference on

Conference_Location

Wuhan

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-4638-4

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-4639-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICMSS.2009.5301280

Filename

5301280