Decision-making for community resilience: A review of decision support systems and their applications

Decision Support Systems (DSS) have emerged as important tools for enhancing community resilience due to their ability to provide timely and efficient solutions to disaster-related problems while reflecting the perspectives of different stakeholders and utilizing multiple data sources. This paper pr...

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Autores: Elkady, S.K. (Sahar Khaled)|||/items/d106f656-78a7-4543-9467-4d37880cea00, Hernantes-Apezetxea, J. (Josune)|||/items/f325c658-dca3-4e00-ab34-9afbcf2e3c77, Labaka-Zubieta, L. (Leire)|||/items/9b426903-0c71-40d7-8d23-d3361f18088d
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2024
País:España
Institución:Universidad de Navarra
Repositorio:Dadun. Depósito Académico Digital de la Universidad de Navarra
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:dadun.unav.edu:10171/70093
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/10171/70093
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Community resilience
Systematic literature review
Decision support
Disaster management
Resilience operationalization
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Sumario:Decision Support Systems (DSS) have emerged as important tools for enhancing community resilience due to their ability to provide timely and efficient solutions to disaster-related problems while reflecting the perspectives of different stakeholders and utilizing multiple data sources. This paper provides a comprehensive summary of DSS applications to community resilience, emphasizing how the different modeling techniques are used in different disaster phases. We found that optimization techniques are the most frequently used methods for building DSS. Furthermore, we found that DSS tend to focus more on the preparedness and response phases of disaster management, rather than the recovery and mitigation phases. Moreover, the study highlights the main challenges in developing and implementing DSS for resilience, such as data availability, the uncertainty of the disaster context, and the need for cross-disciplinary collaboration. Based on the reviewed papers, we provide some guidelines to practitioners to select the most suitable decision-support tools for the needs of their community. The study aims to help decision-makers and researchers build effective decision support systems for enhancing community resilience, considering the current challenges.