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Pre-positioning and dynamic delivery planning for short-term response following a natural disaster

Rawls, Carmen G.; Turnquist, Mark A. - In: Socio-Economic Planning Sciences 46 (2012) 1, pp. 46-54

Natural disasters often result in large numbers of evacuees being temporarily housed in schools, churches, and other shelters. The sudden influx of people seeking shelter creates demands for emergency supplies, which must be delivered quickly. A dynamic allocation model is constructed to...

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Prepositioning of supplies in preparation for a hurricane under potential destruction of prepositioned supplies

Galindo, Gina; Batta, Rajan - In: Socio-Economic Planning Sciences 47 (2013) 1, pp. 20-37

Hurricanes are a type of natural disaster for which it is possible to plan for prepositioning of supplies to improve the efficiency of the post-disaster relief effort. This paper develops a model for prepositioning supplies in such a setting. Our model has a distinguishing feature the possible...

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Location of temporary depots to facilitate relief operations after an earthquake

Lin, Yen-Hung; Batta, Rajan; Rogerson, Peter A.; Blatt, Alan - In: Socio-Economic Planning Sciences 46 (2012) 2, pp. 112-123

The type of humanitarian logistics problem of interest is an earthquake with significant damage, prioritized items for delivery, and an extensive time period over which supplies need to be delivered. The problem of interest is an outgrowth of a recent paper by [10], where they focused on...

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Assessing geographic coverage of the essential air service program

Grubesic, Tony H.; Matisziw, Timothy C.; Murray, Alan T. - In: Socio-Economic Planning Sciences 46 (2012) 2, pp. 124-135

Essential air service (EAS) is a federally funded program that helps provide commercial air transport service from smaller, geographically remote communities in the United States. While critics of this program frequently cite the underutilization of EAS connections as being an indicator of...

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Incorporating recycling into post-disaster debris disposal

Fetter, Gary; Rakes, Terry - In: Socio-Economic Planning Sciences 46 (2012) 1, pp. 14-22

Although large amounts of disaster-generated debris significantly strain landfill capacities, until recently existing policy provided no financial incentive to consider other disposal alternatives such as recycling. In 2007, the U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) released a new...

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Locating farmers’ markets with an incorporation of spatio-temporal variation

Tong, Daoqin; Ren, Fang; Mack, James - In: Socio-Economic Planning Sciences 46 (2012) 2, pp. 149-156

The recent drive among consumers to purchase fresh, healthy and environmentally friendly food has brought about a renewed interest in farmers’ markets. However, ensuring the success of a farmers’ market is not an easy task. Unlike general grocery stores, farmers’ markets often have very...

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Improving access to health facilities in Nouna district, Burkina Faso

Cocking, Cara; Flessa, Steffen; Reinelt, Gerhard - In: Socio-Economic Planning Sciences 46 (2012) 2, pp. 164-172

The Nouna health district in Burkina Faso, has a population of approximately 275,000 people living in 281 villages, and is served by 25 health facilities, as of 2006. For many people, the time and effort required in traveling to a health facility, which may demand a journey of many kilometers...

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Generic operational models in health service operations management: A systematic review

Mahdavi, Mahdi; Malmström, Tomi; van de Klundert, Joris; … - In: Socio-Economic Planning Sciences 47 (2013) 4, pp. 271-280

operations are used. In this paper we review this wide body of literature with the aim of synthesizing evidence on application of … review of the literature which forms the basis of our research synthesis includes peer reviewed publications from business …? Our systematic review reveals that few papers report achievements which qualify as empirical evidence to guide the …

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