Sustainable Planning and Preparedness for Emergency Disasters
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 July 2023) | Viewed by 57430
Special Issue Editors
Interests: operations research; combinatorial optimization; logistics; disaster management
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Recently, the number and scale of natural or manmade disasters have increased, leading to significant casualties, and enormous economic losses [1]. Disaster is any occurrence that causes damage, ecological disruption, human life or economic loss. These disasters (earthquake, flood, tsunami, contagious disease like COVID-19, terrors, nuclear disasters, explosions, disruptions in our production systems, etc.) get increasingly complicated as natural and manmade disasters have recently been interacting with one another [2]. It is necessary to address sustainable planning and preparedness for emergency disasters to avoid serious consequences in our assets and lives [3].
Disaster management is described as a process composed of four stages: mitigation, preparation, response, and reconstruction. Without planning and preparing properly against the potential disaster occurrences, our lives and society cannot be sustainable and prosperous [4].
The aims of this Special Issue are: (1) to present and concentrate on the challenges in sustainable planning and preparedness for emergency disasters including but not limited to disaster relief, robust models, sustainable systems, system disruption, problem solving approaches, resource management, simulations, and system modeling, and (2) to provide a forum for researchers to discuss the latest progress, new research methodologies, and potential research topics in the field of disaster management.
References:
- Gu, J., Zhou, Y., Das, A., Moon, I., and Lee, G.M., Medical relief shelter location problem with patient severity under a limited relief budget, Computers & Industrial Engineering, 2018, 31, No. 8, pp 720–728.
- Amir, M.I.H., Rosyidah, F.A., and Lee, G.M., A formal model of the agent-based simulation for the emergency evacuation planning, International Journal of Industrial Engineering: Theory, Applications and Practice, 2020, Vol 27, No. 4, pp 645-664.
- Peng, P., Snyder, L.V., Lim, A., and Liu, Z., Reliable logistics networks design with facility disruptions, Transportation Research Part B, 2011, 45, 8, pp 1190–1211.
- Akbari, V., and Salman, F.S., Multi-vehicle synchronized arc routing problem to restore post-disaster network connectivity, European Journal of Operational Research, 2017, 257, No. 2, pp 625-640.
Prof. Dr. Gyu Min Lee
Dr. Ivan Kristianto Singgih
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- sustainable planning
- ecological disruption
- system modeling
- disaster management
- sustainable society
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