Evaluating and Enhancing Comprehensive Disaster Reduction in Mining Cities in the Central Plains Urban Agglomeration, China

This study focuses on 28 mining cities with the aim of promoting their sustainable development, particularly with regard to disaster resilience. The entropy-weight Technique for Order of Preference by Similarity to Ideal Solution (TOPSIS) model is adopted to measure comprehensive disaster reduction capacity, and spatial analysis/econometric models are used to reveal its spatial distribution pattern, correlation characteristics, and driving mechanism. The region’s comprehensive disaster reduction capacity is generally higher in the west and north and lower in the east and south. Significant differences are observed among cities with obvious spatial agglomeration characteristics, and both high- and low-value areas show a contiguous spatial structure. Economic development and disaster prevention infrastructure construction are the main factors driving the spatial differentiation of disaster reduction capacity. Geological disaster risk exerts a significant negative effect, and various regions exhibit stable positive spatial spillover. These results provide a scientific basis for formulating differentiated disaster reduction strategies and will facilitate the sustainable development of disaster-prone regions.