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Because of climatic hazards and extreme weather events, meteorological disasters attract more and more attention of government, national, and international agencies. Every event tests people’s ability to cope with meteorological disasters and generates the need for disaster risk research and assessments. Social vulnerability is an important measure of disaster risk assessments. Social vulnerability assessment problem can be viewed as a multi-criteria decision-making problem. In order to satisfy the perception of special disaster bearers, we need a local-context approach to construct a social vulnerability evaluation index system. The key to this approach is to identify the evaluation criteria structure by analyzing the complicated information gathering from special disaster bearers. It’s natural to use fuzzy language to express disaster bearers’ preferences in a complicated context. This paper attempts to describe the interrelationship between the evaluation factors with linguistic preferences since linguistic variables can better reflect the vagueness of human being. The fuzzy interpretive structural modeling (FISM) approach has been employed to develop the structural relationship between social vulnerability evaluation factors. In FISM, we apply some computational models of computing with words to quantify the fuzzy interrelationship. Finally, we give an example to show the process of our method.
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This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) (71871121) and Foundation of CIC-FEMD the special topic "the influence of weather conditions on the spread of large-scale influenza virus" (No. 2020xtzx002).
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Cai, M., Wei, G. A fuzzy social vulnerability evaluation from the perception of disaster bearers against meteorological disasters. Nat Hazards 103, 2355–2370 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11069-020-04088-4
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