Building disaster preparedness and response capacity in humanitarian supply chains using the Social Vulnerability Index

被引:54
作者
Alem, Douglas [1 ]
Bonilla-Londono, Hector F. [2 ]
Barbosa-Povoa, Ana Paula [3 ]
Relvas, Susana [3 ]
Ferreira, Deisemara [4 ]
Moreno, Alfredo [5 ]
机构
[1] Univ Edinburgh, Business Sch, 29 Buccleuch Pl, Edinburgh EH8 9JS, Midlothian, Scotland
[2] Pontificia Univ Javeriana Cali, Dept Civil & Ind Engn, Calle 18 118250, Cali, Colombia
[3] Univ Lisbon, Inst Super Tecn, CEG IST, Av Rovisco Pais, P-1049001 Lisbon, Portugal
[4] Univ Fed Sao Carlos, Dept Phys Chem & Math, Rodovia Joao Leme dos Santos,Km 110, BR-18052780 Sorocaba, Brazil
[5] Univ Fed Sao Carlos, Dept Prod Engn, Rodovia Joao Leme dos Santos,Km 110, BR-18052780 Sao Carlos, Brazil
基金
巴西圣保罗研究基金会;
关键词
OR in disaster relief; Humanitarian logistics and supply chain; Disaster preparedness; Social vulnerability index;
D O I
10.1016/j.ejor.2020.10.016
中图分类号
C93 [管理学];
学科分类号
12 ; 1201 ; 1202 ; 120202 ;
摘要
We present a novel humanitarian supply chain approach to address disaster preparedness and build response capacity in humanitarian supply chains when people's vulnerability matters. Our primary motivation comes from the fact that disasters in Brazil are often associated with unequal distribution of opportunities and social inequalities that end up pushing more vulnerable people to risky areas or informal settlements. Moreover, investment in disaster management has dropped over the past few years in Brazil. In this way, we wonder: how to use the somewhat limited financial budget as effectively as possible towards meeting those that need the most while addressing disaster preparedness activities? To answer this question, we develop an optimization model to address location, capacity planning, prepositioning, local procurement, and relief aid flows' decisions. Differently from most existing research, we adopt the so-called Social Vulnerability Index (SoVI) in the objective function to build enhanced response capacity in more vulnerable areas when the lack of resources makes impassable to fulfil all victims' needs at once. Through a rich and real case-study based on the Brazilian Humanitarian Supply Chain, we come up with critical insights that can help to improve the humanitarian supply chain practices in the country. In particular, we show that the social benefit of using SoVI is as more significant as the vulnerability increases, which reveals the importance of considering this index to design more social-effective humanitarian supply chains. (C)) 2020 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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页码:250 / 275
页数:26
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