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Increasing population of urban areas by 2050, especially in areas highly prone to natural hazards, could potentially threaten vulnerable cities in the face of future disaster events. Alternative temporary housing (TH) needs to be assessed as an important element of local resiliency. In this regard, there are some interrelated factors that can have antithetical impacts on the different cases of TH. Thus, proper decision-making models can be highly useful to deal with this complex multifaceted process. These models should be flexible and adaptable to existing local and boundary conditions since a TH strategy could lead to different satisfactions and perceptions. This chapter aims to present a multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM) method for choosing the most sustainable temporary housing alternative. To this end, general requirements of the decision-making process for dealing with temporary housing selection are specified and organized based on the assessed cases. Finally, all possible decision-making methods are assessed to determine the most suitable one based on correspondence between the methods and the requirements. As a result, this study concludes that a robust MCDM method should incorporate concept method to objectively measure the satisfaction degree of every stakeholder involved. In this sense, the Integrated Value Model for Sustainable Assessment (MIVES) is a suitable method for assessing the sustainability of temporary housing since this includes the value function method (based on the utility theory).
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Hosseini, S.M.A., Pons, O., de la Fuente, A. (2019). Suitability of Different Decision-Making Methods Applied for Analysing Sustainable Post-disaster Temporary Housing. In: Asgary, A. (eds) Resettlement Challenges for Displaced Populations and Refugees. Sustainable Development Goals Series. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-92498-4_16
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