Multicriteria Decision-Making Method for Sustainable Site Location of Post-Disaster Temporary Housing in Urban Areas
Publication: Journal of Construction Engineering and Management
Volume 142, Issue 9
Abstract
Many people lose their homes around the world every year because of natural disasters, such as earthquakes, tsunamis, and hurricanes. In the aftermath of a natural disaster, the displaced people (DP) have to move to temporary housing (TH) and do not have the ability to choose the settlement dimensions, distributions, neighborhood, or other characteristics of their TH. Additionally, post-disaster settlement construction causes neighborhood changes, environmental degradation, and large-scale public expenditures. This paper presents a new model to support decision makers in choosing site locations for TH. The model is capable of determining the optimal site location based on the integration of economic, social, and environmental aspects into the whole life cycle of these houses. The integrated value model for sustainable assessment (MIVES), a multicriteria decision making (MCDM) model, is used to assess the sustainability of the aforementioned aspects, and MIVES includes the value function concept, which permits indicator homogenization by taking into account the satisfaction of the involved stakeholders.
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Acknowledgments
The first author of this paper wants to acknowledge the kindly support offered by both the professors Antonio Aguado and Sergio Cavalaro from the Construction Engineering Department of the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. In addition, the first author would like to thank the experts from the International Institute of Earthquake Engineering and Seismology (IIEES), Tehran Disaster Mitigation and Management Organization (TDMMO), and Universitat Internacional de Catalunya (UIC), who supported this paper for collecting and improving data.
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Received: Jun 19, 2015
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Published online: Mar 7, 2016
Discussion open until: Aug 7, 2016
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