Disasters are usually managed through a four-phase cycle including mitigation,
preparedness, response and recovery. The first two phases happen before a disaster and …

This paper provides a comprehensive review of the research done on facility location
problems under uncertainty in a humanitarian context. The major goal is to summarize and …

Bioenergy is a clean and renewable source of energy that can reduce global depency on
fossil fuel, and it is a sustainable, economically viable, and socially acceptable. Bioenergy …

The increasing number and severity of natural and man-made disasters worldwide has led
to calls for more precise and effective humanitarian responses, and the use of humanitarian …

Facility location, supply inventory and distribution, and evacuation planning are key
operational functions in a humanitarian relief network, it is critical to integrate these three …

This paper proposes a scenario-based three-stage hybrid robust and stochastic model that
optimally designs the response network and distributes casualties effectively under …

After a severe disaster strikes, a large number of casualties in need of urgent treatment,
known as a mass casualty incident (MCI) event, arise from multiple disaster areas in a very …

Assessing a humanitarian transportation network at an early stage after disaster occurrence
plays a crucial role in the mitigation of casualties. As a class of uncrewed aerial vehicles …

We focus on rapid needs assessment operations conducted immediately after a disaster to
identify the urgent needs of the affected community groups, and address the problem of …

Reasonable location of warehouses and adequate storage of emergency commodities
before disasters play an important role in providing timely rescue after disasters. For certain …