Humanitarian logistics and information management for natural disaster response

Abstract

Providing emergency relief to the victims of natural disasters is a hugely complex process fraught with many challenging aspects, as multiple uncertainties, little reliable information, scarcity of resources, a variety of involved entities, among others. Nowadays there is a lot of information that could be used to improve decision making in disaster management, but usually it is not available at the right moment, in the right way, or it is partially known or the information is vague. In this paper we show how humanitarian ...