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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 Liao
Schools 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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  • Social Sciences

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  • Geography and Environment

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Sustainability

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YIN, J. ... et al., 2019. A vulnerability assessment of urban emergency in schools of Shanghai. Sustainability, 11 (2), 349.

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© The Authors. Published by MDPI

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This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/ by/4.0/

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2019-01-08

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2019

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This is an Open Access Article. It is published by MDPI under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 Unported Licence (CC BY). Full details of this licence are available at: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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2071-1050

Language

  • en

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