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To deal effectively with the evaluation problem of natural disaster risk system affected by many uncertain factors, a multivariate connection number expression is presented. This expression is based on the index samples and evaluation grade criterions of natural disaster risk system and is capable of describing the hierarchy property and fuzziness of membership relationship between index samples and evaluation grade criterions. In this proposed method, the fuzzy evaluation grade criterion problem is resolved by combining triangular fuzzy numbers with multivariate connection number theory, and triangular fuzzy numbers are used to express the discrepancy degree coefficients of connection number and evaluation index weights. Accordingly, a connection number-based evaluation method for the natural disaster system of China (named CN-TFN for short) is established using triangular fuzzy numbers and stochastic simulation. The application results show that the spatial distribution of natural disaster risk grades of China has the trend of aggrandizement from west to east of China. The economically developed and densely populated coastal areas are very likely to have a high level of natural disaster risk grade or above; thus, these areas are the key regions of the natural disaster risk management of China. The results also show that the CN-TFN is able to reflect practical conditions of the evaluation problem of natural disaster system and to provide more reliability information as compared to the existing evaluation methods. This is as a result of its comprehensive usage of various information of subjective and objective uncertainties in the evaluation process of natural disaster risk system and its expression by confidence intervals. Due to the simplicity and generalization, the CN-TFM is applicable to comprehensive risk grade evaluation of various natural disaster systems.
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The authors would like to thank the support of the National Natural Science Foundation of China under the grant Nos. 51079037 and 71020107026, the CAS Strategic Priority Research Program Grant No. XDA05150600, the National Key Technologies R&D Program of China during the 11th Five-year Plan Period (No. 2008BAC38B04-03-04), and the Opening Foundation of Chengdu Institute of Plateau Meteorology, China Meteorological Administration (LPM2011002). We thank the two anonymous reviewers for helpful comments and suggestions on the earlier draft of our paper according to which we improved the content.
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Jin, JL., Wei, YM., Zou, LL. et al. Risk evaluation of China’s natural disaster systems: an approach based on triangular fuzzy numbers and stochastic simulation. Nat Hazards 62, 129–139 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11069-011-0005-4
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