Socio-Economic Planning Sciences

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Volume 82, issue PB, 2022

Expert model of risk assessment for the selected components of smart city concept: From safe time to pandemics as COVID-19

Beata Gavurova, Miroslav Kelemen and Volodymyr Polishchuk

Handling imperfect information in multiple criteria decision-making through a comprehensive interval outranking approach

Eduardo Fernández, José Rui Figueira, Jorge Navarro and Efrain Solares

Decision support models for managing food aid supply chains: A systematic literature review

Monirehalsadat Mahmoudi, Khadijeh Shirzad and Vedat Verter

An application of Multi-Attribute Utility Theory (MAUT) to the prioritization of rural roads to improve rural accessibility in Nigeria

Uduak Akpan and Risako Morimoto

A fuzzy group decision-making model to measure resiliency in a food supply chain: A case study in Spain

Morteza Yazdani, Ali Ebadi Torkayesh, Prasenjit Chatterjee, Alireza Fallahpour, Maria Jose Montero-Simo, Rafael A. Araque-Padilla and Kuan Yew Wong

Non-compliance in transit-based evacuation pick-up point assignments

Qingyi Wang and Stein Wallace

Back to school or … back to lockdown? The effects of opening schools on the diffusion of COVID-19 in Italian regions

Vincenzo Alfano and Salvatore Ercolano

Effects of government subsidy programs on job creation for sustainable supply chain management

Jun Seop Lee and Byung Do Chung

A modified super-efficiency network data envelopment analysis: Assessing regional sustainability performance in China

Jingjing Qu, Baohui Wang and Xiaohong Liu

Women's political leadership and efficiency in reducing COVID-19 death rate: An application of technical inefficiency effects model across Indian states

Shrabanti Maity and Ummey Rummana Barlaskar

Assessing the impact of officials' turnover on urban economic efficiency: From the perspective of political promotion incentive and power rent-seeking incentive

Xiaoqing Ji, Shuai Liu and Jingyi Lang

Students’ preferences for returning to colleges and universities during the COVID-19 pandemic: A discrete choice experiment

Lauren N. Steimle, Yuming Sun, Lauren Johnson, Tibor Besedes, Patricia Mokhtarian and Dima Nazzal

Weight profiles in cross-efficiency evaluation based on hypervolume maximization

Javier Alcaraz, Juan Aparicio, Juan Fco Monge and Nuria Ramón

Does urbanization affect the gap between urban and rural areas? Evidence from China

Changjun Jiang, Jintao Li and Jilai Liu

Pollution and environmental quality violations: Finding the right emission permit prices for NO2 EDPs

Keith Willett and Anetta Caplanova

Service quality modeling to support optimizing facility location in a microscale environment

B. Amelia Pludow, Alan T. Murray and Richard L. Church

A budget allocation model for domestic airport network protection

Xihong Yan, Xiaorong Ren and Xiaofeng Nie

Does the opening of high-speed railways improve urban livability? Evidence from a quasi-natural experiment in China

Junfeng Zhao, Jinling Yan, Qiying Ran, Xiaodong Yang, Xufeng Su and Jianliang Shen

Predicting lead water service lateral locations: Geospatial data science in support of municipal programming

Seyedsaeed Hajiseyedjavadi, Hassan A. Karimi and Michael Blackhurst

A stochastic programming model for emergency supplies pre-positioning, transshipment and procurement in a regional healthcare coalition

Qingyi Wang, Zhuomeng Liu, Peng Jiang and Li Luo

Efficiency and effectiveness analysis based on educational inclusion and fairness of European countries

Dovilė Stumbrienė, Rimantas Želvys, Julius Žilinskas, Rita Dukynaitė and Audronė Jakaitienė

The impact of High-Speed Rails on urban expansion: An investigation using an SDID with dynamic effects method

Yaoyu Zhang, Jin Liu and Bo Wang

What influences the perception of immigration in Italian adolescents? An analysis with CUB models for rating data

Nunziata Ribecco, Angela Maria D'Uggento and Angela Labarile

Forecasting unemployment in Brazil: A robust reconciliation approach using hierarchical data

Maurício Franca Lila, Erick Meira and Fernando Luiz Cyrino Oliveira

The impact of social welfare and COVID-19 stringency on the perceived utility of food apps: A hybrid MCDM approach

Liz Hassad de Andrade, Jorge Junio Moreira Antunes, Antônio Mamede Araújo de Medeiros, Peter Wanke and Bernardo Pereira Nunes

A mat-heuristic based solution approach for an extended nurse rostering problem with skills and units

Aykut Melih Turhan and Bilge Bilgen

Creating grocery delivery hubs for food deserts at local convenience stores via spatial and temporal consolidation

Zulqarnain Haider, Yujie Hu, Hadi Charkhgard, David Himmelgreen and Changhyun Kwon

Supplier selection in disaster operations management: Review and research gap identification

Shaolong Hu, Zhijie Sasha Dong and Benjamin Lev

A global-responsive supply chain considering sustainability and resiliency: Application in the medical devices industry

Sina Nayeri, Zeinab Sazvar and Jafar Heydari

High-speed railway, factor flow and enterprise innovation efficiency: An empirical analysis on micro data

Xuehui Yang, Huirong Zhang and Yan Li

Evaluation of insurance companies considering uncertainty: A multi-objective network data envelopment analysis model with negative data and undesirable outputs

Hashem Omrani, Ali Emrouznejad, Meisam Shamsi and Pegah Fahimi

A multi-objective optimization model for dissolving circular shareholdings in Korean conglomerates

Jihye Jung and In-Chan Choi

Evaluating the potential of marginal lands available for sustainable cellulosic biofuel production in Italy

Lorenzo Sallustio, Antoine L. Harfouche, Luca Salvati, Marco Marchetti and Piermaria Corona

Evolutionary game of emergency logistics path selection under bounded rationality

Wenjun Sun, Changfeng Zhu and Hui Li

Revisiting Gini for equitable humanitarian logistics

Douglas Alem, Aakil M. Caunhye and Alfredo Moreno

Equilibrium and efficiency in the first aid services market: The case of the emergency department of Sorrento

Massimiliano Agovino, Gaetano Musella and Alessandro Scaletti

Do social and economic factors affect the technical efficiency in entrepreneurship activities? Evidence from European countries using a two-stage DEA model

Pedro Mendonça Silva, Victor Ferreira Moutinho and António Carrizo Moreira

How to allocate multi-period research resources? Centralized resource allocation for public universities in China using a parallel DEA-based approach

Xi Xiong, Guo-liang Yang, De-qun Zhou and Zi-long Wang

Disaggregation of poverty indicators by small area methods for assessing the targeting of the “Reddito di Cittadinanza” national policy in Italy

Giovanni Tonutti, Gaia Bertarelli, Caterina Giusti and Monica Pratesi

Modeling municipal solid waste disposal consortia on a regional scale for present and future scenarios

David Gabriel de Barros Franco, Maria Teresinha Arns Steiner, Rafaela Pereira Fernandes and Victor Fernandez Nascimento

Volume 82, issue PA, 2022

Caring more about food: The unexpected positive effect of the Covid-19 lockdown on household food management and waste

Ludovica Principato, Luca Secondi, Clara Cicatiello and Giovanni Mattia

Disruption in food supply chain and undernourishment challenges: An empirical study in the context of Asian countries

Syed Abdul Rehman Khan, Asif Razzaq, Zhang Yu, Adeel Shah, Arshian Sharif and Laeeq Janjua

Food waste reduction and economic savings in times of crisis: The potential of machine learning methods to plan guest attendance in Swedish public catering during the Covid-19 pandemic

Christopher Malefors, Luca Secondi, Stefano Marchetti and Mattias Eriksson

Measuring consumers’ level of satisfaction for online food shopping during COVID-19 in Italy using POSETs

Leonardo Salvatore Alaimo, Mariantonietta Fiore and Antonino Galati

Consumer expenditure, elasticity and value of food waste: A Quadratic Almost Ideal Demand System for evaluating changes in Mexico during COVID-19

Adrian Vargas-Lopez, Clara Cicatiello, Ludovica Principato and Luca Secondi

Shared warehouse as an inter-supply chain cooperation strategy to reduce the time-dependent deterioration costs

Mojtaba Arab Momeni and Mehdi Bagheri

The impact of COVID-19 on food management in households of an emerging economy

Raife Meltem Yetkin Özbük, Ayşen Coşkun and Viachaslau Filimonau

Has the COVID-19 pandemic changed food waste perception and behavior? Evidence from Italian consumers

Vera Amicarelli, Giovanni Lagioia, Stefania Sampietro and Christian Bux

How did Italian diversified farms tackle Covid-19 pandemic first wave challenges?

Luigi Mastronardi, Aurora Cavallo and Luca Romagnoli

Generation and prevention of food waste in the German food service sector in the COVID-19 pandemic – Digital approaches to encounter the pandemic related crisis

Christina Strotmann, Vanessa Baur, Nora Börnert and Paula Gerwin

Consumer behavior during the COVID-19 pandemic: An analysis of food purchasing and management behaviors in U.S. households through the lens of food system resilience

Kathryn Bender, Aishwarya Badiger, Brian Roe, Yiheng Shu and Danyi Qi

The quantity and composition of household food waste during the COVID-19 pandemic: A direct measurement study in Canada

Haley Everitt, Paul van der Werf, Jamie A. Seabrook, Alexander Wray and Jason A. Gilliland

The Covid-19 pandemic and food consumption at home and away: An exploratory study of English households

Viachaslau Filimonau, Le Hong Vi, Sean Beer and Vladimir A. Ermolaev

Learning from and designing after pandemics. CEASE: A design thinking approach to maintaining food consumer behaviour and achieving zero waste

Sonia Massari, Ludovica Principato, Marta Antonelli and Carlo Alberto Pratesi

Exploring food shopping, consumption and waste habits in North Macedonia during the COVID-19 pandemic

Zvezda Bogevska, Sinisa Berjan, Hamid El Bilali, Mohammad Sadegh Allahyari, Adriana Radosavac and Margarita Davitkovska

COVID-19 induced lockdown effects on agricultural commodity prices and consumer behaviour in India – Implications for food loss and waste management

A G Cariappa, Kamlesh Kumar Acharya, Chaitanya Ashok Adhav, R. Sendhil and P. Ramasundaram

Cost-versus environmentally-optimal production in institutional food service operations

Esma Birisci and Ronald G. McGarvey

Stockpiling and food worries: Changing habits and choices in the midst of COVID-19 pandemic

Franklin Amuakwa-Mensah, Salome Amuakwa-Mensah, Rebecca Afua Klege and Philip Adom

European food banks and COVID-19: Resilience and innovation in times of crisis

Paula Capodistrias, Julia Szulecka, Matteo Corciolani and Nhat Strøm-Andersen

Impact of COVID-19 on food waste behaviour of families: Results from household waste composition audits

Amar Laila, Mike von Massow, Maggie Bain, Kate Parizeau and Jess Haines

Food donation management under supply and demand uncertainties in COVID-19: A robust optimization approach

Jyotirmoy Dalal

Emergency preparedness during the COVID-19 pandemic: Modelling the roles of social media with fuzzy DEMATEL and analytic network process

Egberto Selerio, June Anne Caladcad, Mary Rose Catamco, Esehl May Capinpin and Lanndon Ocampo

The impact of food delivery applications on Romanian consumers’ behaviour during the COVID-19 pandemic

Adriana Burlea-Schiopoiu, Silvia Puiu and Adina Dinu

Total-employed longevity gap, pension fairness and public finance: Evidence from one of the oldest regions in EU

Fabrizio Culotta, Leonardo Salvatore Alaimo, Jorge Bravo, Enrico di Bella and Luca Gandullia

A heuristic for the deployment of collecting routes for urban recycle stations (eco-points)

G. Marseglia, J.A. Mesa, F.A. Ortega and R. Piedra-de-la-Cuadra

Identification of spatial regimes of the production function of Italian hospitals through spatially constrained cluster-wise regression

Francesco Vidoli, Giacomo Pignataro and Roberto Benedetti

Cash versus in-kind transfer programs in humanitarian operations: An optimization program and a case study

Rezvan Rafiei, Kai Huang and Manish Verma

Modelling the persistence of Covid-19 positivity rate in Italy

Antonio Naimoli

Efficiency of secondary schools in Ecuador: A value based DEA approach

Carla Henriques, J.M. Chavez, M.C. Gouveia and O.D. Marcenaro-Gutierrez

Public-private partnerships: A dynamic discrete choice model for road projects

Jianfeng Zhao, Henry J. Liu, Peter E.D. Love, David J. Greenwood and Michael C.P. Sing

Manufacturing structure, transformation path, and performance evolution: An industrial network perspective

Yongqing Li, Huimin Ma, Jie Xiong, Jinlong Zhang and Pradeep Kumar Ponnamma Divakaran

Higher education systems and regional economic development in Europe: A combined approach using econometric and machine learning methods

Alice Bertoletti, Jasmina Berbegal-Mirabent and Tommaso Agasisti

Location-allocation problem for resource distribution under uncertainty in disaster relief operations

Lipika Shaw, Soumen Kumar Das and Sankar Kumar Roy

A locational analysis of deregulation policies in the Spanish retail pharmaceutical sector

Giuseppe Bruno, Manuel Cavola, Antonio Diglio, Javier Elizalde and Carmela Piccolo

Healthcare service quality evaluation: An integrated decision-making methodology and a case study

Ali Karasan, Melike Erdogan and Melih Cinar

Environmental degradation and comparative advantage reversal

Angelo Antoci, Giulio Galdi and Paolo Russu

Socio-economic inequality, interregional mobility and mortality among cancer patients: A mediation analysis approach

Claudio Rubino, Chiara Di Maria, Antonino Abbruzzo and Mauro Ferrante

Strategic planning of rural areas: Integrating participatory backcasting and multiple criteria decision analysis tools

Roberta Sisto, Luis A. Fernández-Portillo, Morteza Yazdani, Lorenzo Estepa-Mohedano and Ali Ebadi Torkayesh

Integrating GIS in reorganizing blood supply network in a robust-stochastic approach by combating disruption damages

Niloofar Gilani Larimi, Abolghasem Azhdari, Rouzbeh Ghousi and Bo Du

Scientists wanted? A literature review on incentive programs that promote pro-environmental consumer behavior: Energy, waste, and water

John E. Fontecha, Alexander Nikolaev, Jose L. Walteros and Zhenduo Zhu

Can housing price regulation improve R&D performance in universities? Evidence from China

Zhenbing Yang, Zhuo Chen, Shuai Shao and Lili Yang