Evaluating resilience of coastal communities upon integrating PRISMA protocol, composite resilience index and analytical hierarchy process

Abstract

This research intends to investigate the resilience of coastal communities to natural hazards upon adopting: (i) Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) protocol as a novel approach for the selection of resilience indicators and major components; (ii) Analytical Hierarchy Process to generate a weight for each indicator and major component of resilience; and (iii) indexing method to calculate the extent of resilience for each community. The results highlight that 25.81 % of the communities in the study area are registered in the very low to low resilience class, whereas 58.07 % are classified as very high to high. Additionally, this research identifies 11 critical action areas for building resilience in Khulna City, which is crucial for major stakeholders in setting up development strategies and plans for disaster risk reduction and sustainability.