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[Vol. 2 No. 1]Emergency Evaluation Model and Method: A Perspective Overview
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[Vol. 2 No. 1]Emergency Evaluation Model and Method: A Perspective Overview

Ning Chen
GECAD, Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto, Portugal

An Chen
GECAD, Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto, Portugal
Institute of Policy and Management, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Institute of Emergency Management, Henan University, China

Evaluation is a vital composition of decision-making problems and a multitude of evaluation methods have been proposed in the literature. It is also critically important to emergency management for the sake of rapid and effective emergency actions. The primary goal of this paper is to summarize and analyze the existing studies on emergency evaluation in order to facilitate more productive future research in this area. This paper traces the literature on evaluation methods and then focuses on the advanced evaluation studies in modern emergency management. The essential features and characteristics of present emergency evaluation methodologies are summarized from different viewpoints. Finally, a synthetic assessment model is described for the general use in emergency management.

Keywords: unconventional incident, modern emergency management, emergency evaluation,risk assessment, during-incident assessment