Economic effects of disasters in the perspective of natural disaster economy: A study on Denizli copper companies

Today, there is almost no society that has not faced the devastating consequences of natural disasters. Especially in Turkey, which is an earthquake country, after the recent February 6 earthquakes, many cities in Istanbul and Anatolia need to be re-evaluated and precautions must be taken in terms of earthquake risk. In the study, by using active fault maps, disaster plans and geographical information systems, as well as theoretical concepts and approaches, GIS inferences and Scenario-Based Analysis will be used to evaluate the damages that an earthquake that may occur in Denizli will cause to copper and cable industry enterprises on the axis of economics and management science. Includes Disaster Risk Analysis. In the study, first of all, it was revealed through GIS analyzes that copper and cable industry enterprises are at risk of serious damage in the event of a natural disaster that may occur in Denizli. In this sense, a decision support system model has been developed to evaluate the disaster economic risk of Denizli copper cable industry. In the first stage of the application, the weights of disaster economy risk variables were calculated using the Analytical Hierarchy Process method. It was revealed that among all the criteria, the biggest weight belongs to the instability of the building, and the smallest weight belongs to the supplier's presence in the disaster area. In the next stage, a web-based dynamic decision support system that offers evaluation alternatives according to different scenarios was developed by using the obtained weights.