Potential consequences of disasters involve overwhelming economic losses, large affected populations and serious environmental damages. Given these devastating effects, there is an increasing interest in developing measures in order to diminish the possible impact of disasters, which gave rise...

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...