Potential consequences of disasters involve overwhelming economic losses, large affected
populations and serious environmental damages. Given these devastating effects, there is …

Shelter opening and evacuation of vulnerable populations are operations crucial to disaster
response, which is one of the four phases of Disaster Operations Management (DOM) …

We present a model for multi-objective decision analysis with respect to the location of
public facilities as schools in areas near to coasts, taking risks of inundation by tsunamis into …

Develo** small towns is one important way to push on the urbanization, but the disaster
threat is the severe hindrance to the healthy and rapid development of small towns …

A risk assessment framework was used to assess the risks of forest fire smoke (ffs) to the
exposed communities, critical infrastructures and the environment. The present work is …

This paper, which compares humanitarian logistics research with needs in practice, has two
key objectives. The first is to provide an overview of recent humanitarian operations and …

Based on the characteristics and requirements of railway emergency resources dispatch, the
paper established two optimal models respectively, the single objective model is aiming at …

We examine the causal factors involved in unintentional dwelling fire incidents within the
Merseyside area of the North West region of the United Kingdom. The approach of all …

Maritime operations perform a global interface function connecting international, regional
and domestic supply chain networks within a transportation and distribution platform. Due to …

In this paper, we examine the management of unintentional dwelling fire risk through the
development of a geographical information system (GIS) for dwelling fire prevention support …