Strategies for Logistics in Case of a Natural Disaster
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Apte, Aruna
Yoho, Keenan D.
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2009
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WDSI
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The unpredictability of the timing of a disaster as well as the scope of its human and material destruction raises several serious questions for emergency planners and first responders. Decisions regarding the types of provisions that should be prepositioned, as well as their location, should be made well before a disaster strikes in order to provide quick response. We discuss a general framework for classifying disasters and then investigate several logistics policy options for effectively responding to them. The conceptual models developed in this work will serve as the theoretical base for future empirical work investigating appropriate policy options for different classifications of disasters.
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Presented at Western Decision Sciences Institute (WDSI 2012) conference April 5 - 8, 2011
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Naval Postgraduate School (U.S.)
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6 p.
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Kridel, D., and D. Dolk. "A self-service automated targeting portal: an example of model as a service." Proceedings of the 38th WDSI Conference. 2009.
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This publication is a work of the U.S. Government as defined in Title 17, United States Code, Section 101. Copyright protection is not available for this work in the United States.