Abstract
AbstractThe goal of sustainable disaster recovery is to regain the built environment’s functionality while decreasing the vulnerability of the society to future perturbations. This requires a new generation of decision support tools that integrate the host community’s vulnerability assessment while taking into account the stakeholders’ interactions, needs, and preferences. The available disaster recovery research focuses on the optimization and reconstruction of isolated projects rather than taking into account the host community’s overall vulnerability and welfare. Moreover, the available research did not simultaneously take into account the stakeholders’ preferences and needs. To this effect, this paper presents an agent-based model that integrates an environmental vulnerability indicator to better guide the decision-making process of the associated stakeholders. Such an approach will aid urban planners to redevelop societies into a more resilient status. This paper implements a five-step research metho...
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