Dead letter or living document? Ten years of the Code of Conduct for disaster relief.

Re-configuration of the Relief Network Considering Uncertain Demand and Link Failure in an Earthquake: A Multi-stage Stochastic Programming

Disasters inevitably trigger far-reaching consequences affecting all living things and the environment.  Therefore, top managers and decision-makers in disaster management seek comprehensive approaches to evaluate facilities and network preparedness in dealing with the response phase of predicted disaster scenarios in terms of number of casualties, costs, and unmet demands.  In this regard, pre...

Letter to the Editor: Application of Haddon Matrix in Disaster Management: A New Window in Disaster Mitigation Risk

In recent years, disaster management has been the focus of attention since disasters have been associated with huge destructions and consequences. Basically, disaster management techniques aim at the prevention and mitigation works as well as promotion of resilience. Haddon’s matrix was proposed as a conceptual model to understand the event and provide preventive measures in the field of injur...

Code of conduct for the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement and nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) in disaster relief.

Multi-objective routing and scheduling for relief distribution with split delivery in post-disaster response

Following the occurrence of unexpected events and natural disasters, a highly important relief operation is the transferring of relief commodities from the distribution centers (CDs) to shelters. In this paper, a three-level network consisting of depot of vehicles, distribution centers and shelters has been considered for routing and scheduling of relief vehicles through introducing a multi-obj...

A location-routing model for assessment of the injured people and relief distribution under uncertainty

Throughout history, nature has exposed humans to destructive phenomena such as earthquakes, floods, droughts, tornadoes, volcanic eruptions, and tropical and marine storms. The large scale of damages and casualties caused by natural disasters around the world has led to extensive applied research in the field of preparation and development of a comprehensive system for disaster management to mi...