In 2001, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) required every Florida county to identify potential locations of disaster recovery centers (DRCs). The DRCs are to be opened and staffed by FEMA personnel, subsequent to any declared disaster. The Emergency Management Division of the Alachua County Department of Fire/Rescue Services sponsored a project to identify potential DRC sites. The ...

Due to the accelerating development of ‘rapidly to become redundant’ technologies, there is a growing mountain of perfectly serviceable discarded electronic devices hiding quietly at the bottom of almost every domestic rubbish pile or at the back of nearly every second hand shop. If you add in to this scenario the accelerating nature of our society where people don’t have time or the motivation...

1 Seriously ill people need to tell stories: to their doctors, to their family, to their friends, to themselves. This article is both an illness narrative and an exploration of illness, narrative, recovery and critical disability studies. Telling illness narratives is a valuable means of recovery when the body becomes what the individual never expected it would—damaged. Narrative is vital, as t...

This note follows an early work by Newell and Daganzo which suggests a wedge-like zone to divide a service area for freight delivery. Current literature has been largely using the zone of a fixed shape determined solely by demand density. We find that, given the same demand density, the shape of zones could vary significantly in order to better balance local and line haul truck delivery costs w...