Multiple criteria decision making in emergency management

摘要

Various types of incidents and disasters cause huge loss to people's lives and property every year and highlight the need to improve our capabilities to handle natural, health, and manmade emergencies. How to develop emergency management systems that can provide critical decision support to emergency management personnel is considered a crucial issue by researchers and practitioners. Governments, such as the USA, the European Commission, and China, have recognized the importance of emergency management and funded national level emergency management projects during the past decade.