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A vulnerability assessment of urban emergency in schools of Shanghai
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posted on 2019-01-21, 14:03 authored by Jie Yin, Yameng Jing, Dapeng YuDapeng Yu, Mingwu Ye, Yuhan Yang, Banggu LiaoSchools and students are particularly vulnerable to natural hazards, especially pluvial
flooding in cities. This paper presents a scenario-based study that assesses the school vulnerability
of emergency services (i.e., Emergency Medical Service and Fire & Rescue Service) to urban pluvial
flooding in the city center of Shanghai, China through the combination of flood hazard analysis
and GIS-based accessibility mapping. Emergency coverages and response times in various traffic
conditions are quantified to generate school vulnerability under normal no-flood and 100-y pluvial
flood scenarios. The findings indicate that severe pluvial flooding could lead to proportionate and
linear impacts on emergency response provision to schools in the city. Only 11% of all the schools is
predicted to be completely unreachable (very high vulnerability) during flood emergency but the
majority of the schools would experience significant delay in the travel times of emergency responses.
In this case, appropriate adaptations need to be particularly targeted for specific hot-spot areas
(e.g., new urbanized zones) and crunch times (e.g., rush hours).
Funding
This work is sponsored by Peak Discipline Construction Project of Education at East China Normal University, the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant no: 41871164, 41601568 and 51761135024), the National Social Science Fund of China (Grant no: 18ZDA105), the National Key Research and Development Program of China (Grant no: 2017YFE0100700 and 2017YFE0107400), the Humanities and Social Science Project of Education Ministry of China (Grant no: 17YJAZH111), the Natural Science Foundation of Shanghai (Grant no: 18ZR1410800) and the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (Grant no: 2018ECNU-QKT001 and 2017ECNU-KXK013).
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YIN, J. ... et al., 2019. A vulnerability assessment of urban emergency in schools of Shanghai. Sustainability, 11 (2), 349.Publisher
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