Journal of Risk Analysis and Crisis Response

Volume 6, Issue 2, July 2016
Editorial

1. Editor’s Introduction

Chongfu Huang, Mu Zhang, Junxiang Zhang
Pages: 47 - 47
Research Article

2. Living with Flood: A Livelihood Resilience Approach of Rural People in Bihar, India

Madhuri, H. R. Tewari, P. K. Bhowmick
Pages: 48 - 66
Flood is a perennial problem in the state of Bihar, India with devastating impact on the livelihood of people. In spite of the government’s measures of flood mitigation, households continue to live with sufferings on account of severe damage to their material and non-material assets. In this background,...
Review Article

3. Overview on the Developments and Applications of Hesitant Fuzzy Sets: An Uncertain Decision Making Tool

Bin Zhu, Zeshui Xu
Pages: 67 - 75
Recently, hesitant fuzzy sets perform as an emerging tool in decision making under uncertainty. This paper reviews the main relevant papers, which are published in international academic journals from 2010 to 2016, relating to the interpretations, modellings, and applications of hesitant fuzzy sets....
Research Article

4. Application of Risk Estimation of Noise-induced Hearing Loss Method in Evaluations of Occupational Disease Hazards in Construction Projects in China

Minyan Li, Deyin Huang, Qian Zhang, Mao Liu
Pages: 76 - 84
To protect the workers exposed to industrial noise, prevent and control the occurrence of noise-induced hearing loss, and reduce the incidence of occupational noise-induced deafness, a method and its application example were presented to assess the risk of noise-induced hearing loss. Based on the data...
Case Study

5. Study on Performance Evaluation of Government Comprehensive Supervision for Safety Production Based on Balanced Score Card — A Case Study in Shandong Province, China

Hao Yu
Pages: 85 - 94
The government supervision is the key to guarantee work safety. In order to improve the level of safety production supervision of the government, a performance evaluation indicator system of safety production supervision within city and county two levels for the local government has been established...
Research Article

6. A Study of the Impact on Soybean Potential under Climate Change

Qiuying Ding, Zhan Tian, Dongli Fan, Laixiang Sun, Guenther Fischer
Pages: 95 - 102
Soybean is one of the important oil crops in China. However the supply and demand of soybean is at stake currently. The demand keeps increasing and the self-sufficient keeps decreasing. More seriously, climate change will bring obvious impact on the growth and development, planting pattern, planting...
Research Article

7. The Analysis on the Effecting Factor of Drought Disease in Qingyang, Gansu

Xiaodong Wang
Pages: 103 - 108
In recent years, the global climate is becoming warmer and warmer. The discussion about the global warming effecting on is also more and more intensified. The paper analyzes change of air temperature and precipitation change occurred from last half century to the beginning of this century in the Qingyang...