Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Caballero-Morales, Santiago-Omar
• Martínez-Flores, José-Luis
• Sánchez-Partida, Diana
• Cano-Olivos, Patricia

Titel

Location of a Regional Humanitarian Response Depot (RHRD) in Puebla, Mexico Using an Analytical Hierarchical Process

Ist Teil von

• Disaster Risk Reduction in Mexico, 2021, p.55-79

Ort / Verlag

Switzerland: Springer International Publishing AG

Erscheinungsjahr

2021

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• In recent years, the number of natural disasters has been increasing due to climate change. It is why the study of these events has become necessary, and finding practical solutions and responding to them has also been crucial since human lives are at risk. Humanitarian support has been of great importance for their care and rescue, which is why a quick response to this task is paramount. The present case study focuses on Puebla, Mexico. Events of hydrometeorological and seismological types have hit this entity. Two types of studies have been made in this case, one qualitatively and the other using an Analytical Hierarchical Process (AHP) in order to obtain the best municipalities to install a Regional Humanitarian Response Depot (RHRD) that protect items of first necessity, which will be delivered to the victims in case of emergency. The state is formed by 217 municipalities in which 203 have been impacted by some natural disaster, according to the data between the years 2006 and 2017. In the first scenario, the information above was considered and the results showed that the safest sites are found in the central and southeastern areas of the state, with a total of 14 municipalities. In the second scenario, an AHP was used but considering other aspects like infrastructure, roads, and so forth, the safety sites were found in the northwest, center-west, center-east, southwest, southeastern, and central areas of the state of Puebla.