The increased level of complexity in the case of Closed Loop Supply Chains (CLSCs) turns them into vulnerable systems under a disaster event. The latter calls for a methodological approach that allows a dynamic study under alternative policies in mit...
The impacts of earthquakes and secondary disasters on ecosystems and the environment are attracting increasing global attention. Development of uncertainty reasoning models offers a chance to research these complex correlations. The primary aim of th...
The catastrophic events caused by meteorological disasters are becoming more severe in the context of global warming. The disaster chains triggered by Tropical Cyclones induce the serious losses of population and economy. It is necessary to make the...
Rainstorm-induced disaster chains are characterized by high suddenness, immense destructive power, and complex chain propagation mechanisms. Traditional static assessment methods rely on fixed parameters and struggle to depict the dynamic evolution o...
To address the impact of the dynamic evolution of flood disaster chains and decision-makers’ (DMs’) risk preference heterogeneity on group decision-making, this study proposes a social network group decision-making method that integrates...
Landfill landslide is a man-made event that occurs when poorly managed garbage mounds at landfills collapse. It has become common in recent decades due to the rising waste volumes in cities. Normally, it is a complex process involving many disaster-c...
In high-mountain canyon areas, complex geological environments lead to frequent cascading disasters with unclear triggering mechanisms, posing severe threats to human life and property. Existing knowledge graph research in geology predominantly focus...
Typhoon disasters not only trigger secondary disasters, such as rainstorms and flooding, but also bring many negative impacts on the normal operation of urban infrastructure and the safety of people’s lives and property. In order to effectively...
The occurrence of downhole debris flows in caving mines has burst, concealment, and destruction characteristics. This study aimed to investigate accurate prevention and control measures for downhole debris flows. The research background was a downhol...
Urban flood disasters have become one of the most significant natural hazards under the dual pressures of rapid urbanization and intensified climate change. With the increasing interconnection among urban subsystems, these disasters often evolve into...
China is one of the countries most affected by typhoon disasters. It is of great significance to study the mechanism of typhoon disasters and construct a typhoon disaster chain for emergency management and disaster reduction. The evolution process of...
27 June 2022
Public safety and health cannot be secured without the comprehensive recognition of characteristics and reliable emergency response schemes under the disaster chain. Distinct from emergency resource allocation that focuses primarily on a single disas...
As cities advance toward the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) for resilient, low-carbon urban transport systems, protecting underground metro infrastructure from climate-driven flood risks has become a core priority for sustainable urban opera...
10 September 2019
Severe natural disasters and related secondary disasters are a huge menace to society. Currently, it is difficult to identify risk formation mechanisms and quantitatively evaluate the risks associated with disaster chains; thus, there is a need to fu...
In the context of Western China’s unique geography, recurrent landslide disasters pose substantial threats to both resident safety and economic stability. The escalating frequency of these incidents emphasizes the critical need for innovative d...
Over the past decades, China has experienced severe compound natural disasters, such as extreme rainfalls, which have led to significant losses. In response to the challenges posed by the lack of a clear investigation process and inadequate comprehen...
Disruptions caused by disasters, pandemics, and systemic crises have increased the complexity and vulnerability of global supply chains, highlighting the need for advanced analytical approaches to risk and resilience management. In this context, arti...
In recent years, power outages due to typhoon-induced rainstorms, waterlogging, and other extreme weather events have become increasingly common, and accurately assessing the risk of damage to the distribution system during a disaster is critical to...
Geological disasters induce coal mine accidents, which usually cause casualties and large economic losses in coal mines. However, the chain relationship and disaster mechanisms of geological disasters secondary coal mine accidents are still unclear,...
The prevention and control of disasters in underground mines is a key task to ensure sustainable mining production and the development of society. The disaster chain brings cascading and clustering characteristics to disasters and leads to the expans...
The cascading damage of expressways induced by extreme heavy rainfall presents a persistent threat to transportation safety and regional sustainable development. To investigate the chain-like evolution characteristics of expressway damage caused by h...
In recent years, China’s urban underground rail transit has developed rapidly, and the development of underground space has become increasingly complex, exposing the system to multiple operational risks such as structural instability, excessive...
The Karakoram mountain range is prone to natural disasters such as glacial surging and glacial lake outburst flood (GLOF) events. In this study, we aimed to document and reconstruct the sequence of events caused by glacial debris flows that dammed th...
Due to the lack of vaccines and treatments, filtering facepiece respirators are a primary and effective tool to dampen the spread of COVID-19. To meet the huge and continuous demand for filtering facepiece respirators, this concept paper suggests a s...
The energy sector, serving as a pivotal propellant within the macroeconomic framework, finds its production, distribution, and consumption aspects considerably influenced by climatic variations. In this study, a two-tier Stackelberg model for the gre...
The Guanting Gorge section of the Yongding River features complex terrain and densely distributed hydraulic projects. Under extreme rainstorm conditions, flood disasters are highly likely to occur, triggering secondary disasters such as landslides, b...
In recent years, disaster chains caused by glacier movements have occurred frequently in the lower Yarlung Tsangpo River in southwest China. However, it is still unclear whether earthquakes significantly contribute to glacier movements and disaster c...
Earthquakes often cause secondary disasters in mountainous areas, forming the typical earthquake-landslide-debris flow disaster chain for a long time that results in a series of losses. It is important to improve the risk assessment method from the p...
In this study, a Bayesian network (BN)-based inhibition model is developed for the rainstorm–landslide–debris flow (R-L-D) disaster chain in the mountainous area of the Greater Bay Area (GBA), China, using the historical disaster data. Tw...
26 November 2019
As a “starting zone” and “amplifier” of global climate change, the Qinghai–Tibet Plateau is very responsive to climate change. The global temperature rise has led directly to an acceleration of glacial melting in the pla...
Compound geological disaster chains pose major challenges for disaster prevention in mountainous regions due to their complex mechanisms and cascading impacts. This study investigates a landslide–debris flow–flash flood hazard chain that...
Landslides are among the most frequent natural hazards in the world. Rainfall is an important triggering factor for landslides and is responsible for topples, slides, and debris flows—three of the most important types of landslides. However, se...
Fire risks during the construction phase remain one of the most critical challenges in the construction industry, often leading to property losses, casualties, project delays, and long-term reputational damage. To address these issues, this study pro...
Network function virtualization (NFV) enables flexible service deployment by implementing network functions as software, with service function chains (SFCs) linking virtual network functions (VNFs) in a specific order to deliver end-to-end services....
Taking the Niumian Gully landslide–debris-flow geohazard chain as an example, we analyze the disaster mechanism of the landslide–debris-flow geohazard chain and its evolution process through field investigation as a reference for disaster...
In this study, a location routing problem (LRP) model was considered for the distribution network of multiple perishable food items in a cold supply chain (CSC) where vehicles can refuel at gas stations during light of the COVID-19 disaster. Fuel con...
Every organization typically comprises various internal components, including regional branches, operations centers/field offices, major transportation hubs, and operational units, among others, housing a population susceptible to disaster impacts. M...
Typhoon disaster chains—cascading sequences of hazards triggered by tropical cyclones—pose significant risks to highly urbanized coastal regions. However, quantitative modelling of their stochastic evolution, including both propagation pr...
Drivers of urban flood disaster risk may be related to many factors from nature and society. However, it is unclear how these factors affect each other and how they ultimately affect the risk. From the perspective of risk uncertainty, flood inundatio...
Against the backdrop of global energy transition and the widespread adoption of Hydrogen-Blended Natural Gas (HBNG), the safety of urban gas pipeline networks faces severe challenges. This paper systematically reviews the research progress of numeric...
To address the challenges in risk prevention and control of post-earthquake gas explosions in high-rise buildings and the deficiencies of traditional methods in handling uncertainty, this paper conducts a risk evolution analysis from the perspectives...
China is a country often subjected to severe meteorological disasters. Analyzing the evolution of policies concerning the prevention and reduction of disasters is of great practical significance for the management of such natural events. We focus on...
This study investigates the influence of specific organizational characteristics—type, location, sector, and size—on perceived disaster management competence within the unique context of Kuwait. A cross-sectional survey was conducted onli...
Frequent natural hazards such as flooding and the devastating consequences of severe events make the humanitarian supply chain particularly important in alleviating the suffering of those communities impacted by such events. However, the ambiguity of...
1 December 2021
This study presents a bibliometric analysis of research on technology in the humanitarian supply chain. The methodology includes performance analysis and science mapping to explore the application of technologies in humanitarian supply chains. This p...
Humanitarian supply chains play a major role in enabling disaster-affected areas to recover in a timely manner and enable economic and social activities to be restored. However, the sudden onset and increasing frequency of natural disasters such as f...
Southeast Tibet is characterized by extensive alpine glaciers and deep valleys, making it highly prone to cryospheric disasters such as avalanches, ice/ice–rock avalanches, glacial lake outburst floods, debris flows, and barrier lakes, which po...
As a consequence of disasters such as pandemics and severe weather events, Australian communities often face ‘food shortages’ resulting from the reduced availability of food and reduced access to available food. These food shortages can b...
This study aims to explore allocation strategies for idle emergency supplies in a “demander–platform–supplier” supply chain system along with government regulation during the post-disaster recovery period. Allocation of emerge...
In order to evaluate the superiority of a filtered tailings storage facility (FTSF) to conventional tailings impoundment in the southern rainy regions of China (SRRC), the tailings slurry leakage and pollution accident occurring at the wet tailings d...
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