Disaster Management and Labor

Anna Nagurney
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Anna Nagurney: University of Massachusetts

Chapter Chapter 12 in Labor and Supply Chain Networks, 2022, pp 283-301 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract The number of disasters is growing, affecting millions of people globally and resulting in tremendous costs in terms of suffering, lives lost, and damages to property and economies. Hence, there is a great need for resilient disaster management. In this chapter, a multiproduct supply chain network model is constructed for a humanitarian organization that includes labor. The model captures uncertainty associated with costs of the humanitarian organization’s supply chain activities, including procurement, storage, and distribution, under multiple disaster scenarios, along with uncertainty associated with the demand for the disaster relief products at the demand points. The humanitarian organization seeks to determine the disaster relief multiproduct flows that minimize its expected total cost and risk and payout for wages for labor subject to expected demand satisfaction. A mean–variance approach is used to capture the risk associated with cost uncertainty. The framework allows for the evaluation of cost savings in the use of volunteers.

Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-20855-3_12

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