Reserving relief supplies for earthquake: a multi-attribute decision making of China Red Cross

Feng Yang, Qianqian Yuan, Shaofu Du*, Liang Liang

*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

Earthquake usually causes grievous damages especially in the earthquake prone areas. Building a fast and effective relief system is very important. China Red Cross is the largest humanitarian organizations in China. To improve its disaster response system, reserving relief supplies gets more and more attentions. In this article, a decision making programming based on the data envelopment analysis method is proposed in the construction of reserve network for China Red Cross with three factors, including cost, risk and utility. Four warehouses are selected and the optimal allocation strategies are obtained under the principles of equity and effectiveness which should be obeyed in humanitarian assistance.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)759-785
Number of pages27
JournalAnnals of Operations Research
Volume247
Issue number2
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Dec 2016
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • Cost
  • Data envelopment analysis (DEA)
  • Earthquake
  • Relief supplies
  • Resource allocation
  • Risk
  • Utility

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