The world has experienced many natural and human-made disasters recently. Such disasters can vary from a local residence to a city or even affect a nation or broader areas. This paper presents a multi-objective mixed integer linear programming model for redesigning the humanitarian supply chain...

This paper introduces the Quickest Evacuation Location problem (QELP), a novel optimisation problem aimed at supporting humanitarian operations by combining the quickest flow problem and the discrete facility location problem. Its scope falls into the field of evacuation planning and design,...

Purpose-Each stage in disaster management faces different challenges concerning information gathering, sharing, interpretation and dissemination. However, a comprehensive understanding of different Information and Communication Technology (ICT) systems utilised for humanitarian disaster...

This study provides new causal evidence for the impact of a large-scale natural disaster on local economic activity in Iran using nighttime light intensity. We apply the synthetic control method (SCM) and nighttime light (NTL) data from 1992 to 2020 for 31 provinces and 429 counties to study the...

This paper examines exposure to – and ability to cope with – disasters caused by natural hazards in the Caribbean. The paper is based on novel survey data collected in five countries: Belize, Dominica, Haiti, Saint Lucia, and Suriname. In all five countries, over three quarters of households...