The Open Cybernetics & Systemics Journal

2016, 10 : 83-90
Published online 2016 July 14. DOI: 10.2174/1874110X01610010083
Publisher ID: TOCSJ-10-83

RESEARCH ARTICLE
 Research on Emergency Management of Urban Extreme Storm Floods Based on Strong Reciprocity

Gao-feng Liua, * , Hui-min Wangb , Jin-ping Tongc , Fei-fei Taob and Xiaoying Laib
a School of Business Administration, Hohai University, Changzhou 213022, PR China
b State Key Laboratory of Hydrology-Water Resources and Hydraulic Engineering, Hohai University, Nanjing 210098, PR China
c School of Economics and Management, Changzhou University, Changzhou 213164, PR China

* Address correspondence to this author at the School of Business Administration, Hohai University, Changzhou 213022, PR China; Tel: +86-13961209601; E-mail: gaofengliu@hhu.edu.cn

ABSTRACT

Urban storm floods have become one of the major natural disasters endangering city safety, economic and social development as well as life stability of urban residents. Due to urgent requirements of improving emergency management capacity, this paper introduces the strong reciprocity theory into emergency management of urban extreme storm floods (UESF), and sets up an evolutionary game model of emergency cooperation mechanisms. Simulations are performed in the example of Jingdezhen city, and the results show that the government strong reciprocity helps to promote emergency cooperation. Besides, rewards and punishment, strong ability of acquiring and processing information, extensive publicity and education can all improve emergency cooperation efficiency and effectiveness of UESF.

Keywords:

Cooperation, Emergency management, Evolutionary games, Strong reciprocity, Urban extreme storm floods (UESF).