Measuring disaster resilience in MENA countries and its impact on disaster losses.

ABSTRACT: Disaster resilience is a protective feature aimed at reducing the effects of natural disaster events and losses resulting from these events. This study develops a Disaster Resilience Index (DRI) for MENA countries to assess resilience across ten dimensions, including economic, social, institutional, infrastructural, and environmental factors. Unlike most prior studies, which focus on individual countries or use narrower sets of indicators, this study provides a multi-country, region-specific framework tailored to MENA's socio-economic and environmental heterogeneity. The index integrates geospatial data on disaster risk from geographic information systems (GIS) and a natural hazard risk dimension. Validation using disaster-related fatalities, supported by a dual PCA-based sensitivity analy

SUBMITTER: Demir A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12685961 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature