Author(s)

Shiyi Lai

School of Public Administration/Emergency Management, Jinan University, Guangzhou, China.

The stampede happened in Shanghai bund in 2014 is wailsome and the “crowded condition” in Guangzhou Lighting Festival in 2012 is still vivid in our mind. As one of the biggest stadiums in China, the number of audience of each ball game in Tianhe Sports Center was more than 40,000. Is there a potential of large stampede resulted in by so huge crowd gathered? This paper tries to study and clean up the characteristics of disaster-bearing body, disaster-pregnant environment and disaster-causing factors through literatures by virtue of the theory of crisis cause model, establish risk evaluation index by using analytical hierarchy process and further research the potential of large stampede happened in Tianhe Sports Center by taking Tianhe Sports Center as the example and combining with field survey.

Stadium, Stampede, Risk Assessment, Hierarchical Analysis, Disaster System

Lai, S. (2017) Research on Risk Evaluation Index System of Stampede in Stadium—By Taking Tianhe Sports Center as an Example. Open Journal of Social Sciences, 5, 352-369. doi: 10.4236/jss.2017.57022.