Taiwan is affected by three primary types of natural disaster: typhoons, earthquakes, and floods. Natural disasters in Taiwan can cause human causalities and loss of housing. Therefore, a method for evaluating the severity of losses caused by natural disasters would be beneficial for disaster management institutes in Taiwan when developing further supply chain management (SCM) strategies. To ev...

A robust, decentralized information management system and reliable transport of information between disconnected agents is essential to the success of command and control activities in disaster relief scenarios. We present work-in-progress aimed at developing a distributed hash table (DHT) protocol and a delay-tolerant network that meet the specific requirements of disaster relief scenarios thr...

Timely and accurate processing of crisis information and effective communication have been documented as critical elements of disaster relief operations. Despite the lessons learned from previous crises, preparing information for humanitarian assistance and ineffective information sharing remain a recurring and almost impossible task for relief agencies. The purpose of this paper is to propose ...

The Andean Information System for Disaster Prevention and Relief – SIAPAD (as it is called in Spanish) is an Andean Committee for Disaster Risk Prevention and Relief (CAPRADE ) initiative oriented to provide tools for data and information discovery, visualization and to facilitate access to the data available in the different technical organizations of Andean countries participating in the init...

History has shown that local, state, and federal governments are not well-equipped with the flexible and responsive abilities necessary to manage the short supply chain life-cycle inherent in providing appropriate disaster relief resources in a timely fashion. Unfortunately, in these unique situations these inefficiencies can cause considerable harm to the citizenry, the financial economy, and ...

This community based participatory research study was conducted in Oso, WA. Ten survivors of the 2014 mudslide participated in a focus group and discussed their experiences before and after this natural disaster. Findings revealed that the majority of participants had feelings of confusion/redundancy and were still processing feelings of grief and loss at the time of the focus group. Another fi...

The second approach is to use epidemiologic methods to investigate mechanisms for alleviating the burden of a disaster once it occurs. This may be applied at the stage of disaster preparedness or at the stage of disaster relief. The most direct applicat ion of epidemiology in this situation is the establishment of surveillance systems to identify injuries and the possible emergence of communica...

The optimization problem of relief supplies distribution for large-scale emergencies is discussed in this paper. Under the situation that the needs for relief supplies are more numerous and urgency, the optimization goal should be minimum disaster loss instead of minimum delivery cost or shortest travel distance. By setting objective function about minimum disaster loss, scheduling model of rel...