A GIS-based Suitability Analysis of Xiamen’s ...

As an important part of the urban ecosystem, the green space in park, not only provides space for entertainment, relaxation, a public forum for exchanging ideas, as well as improving the urban ecological quality; it also plays an important role in disaster prevention. Based on the principles of unified planning, principles such as the integrating daily activity with disaster prevention and promoting proximity evacuation, this article checks the rationality of using the green space in park as earthquake refuge shelters in Xiamen city, Fujian Province, PRC. This paper seeks to develop a suitability assessment system of earthquake shelters with suitable evaluation indexes. GIS, Gray correlation, and entropy methods have been used to access the usability of the green space in park as earthquake refuge areas. Finally, some pieces of constructive advices on how to improve the usability of the green space in park as earthquake refuge areas are provided.