Reports from Northeastern University Advance Knowledge in Naval Research (Humanitarian response to hurricane disasters: Coordinating flood-risk…

Reports from Northeastern University Advance Knowledge in Naval Research (Humanitarian response to hurricane disasters: Coordinating flood-risk mitigation with fundraising and relief operations)

By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Defense & Aerospace Week -- New research on Naval Research is the subject of a report. According to news reporting from Boston, Massachusetts, by VerticalNews editors, the research stated, "To alleviate flooding, caused by hurricanes, governments build structural barriers called levees. In addition, relief providers such as the nongovernmental organizations and charities raise funds, and procure and deliver supplies (food, water, and medicines) for humanitarian relief."

The news correspondents obtained a quote from the research from Northeastern University, "The strategy for managing disasters must, therefore, weigh the costs and benefits of building levees as well as procuring and delivering supplies. We use a three-stage decision making framework to study how the investment in levee capacity can be integrated with supply procurements, fundraising, and rapid response. One of our major findings is that a large fundraising cost discourages postdisaster funding, implying relatively large investments in levee and prepositioned supplies. That notwithstanding, a large social value (of saving life) can tilt the balance in favor of postdisaster funding. If the levee capacity increases, funding for predisaster procurement is reduced without affecting postdisaster funding. For a sufficiently large increase in capacity, however, postdisaster response becomes superfluous. We also find that hurricane uncertainty motivates levees with large capacity."

According to the news reporters, the research concluded: "In contrast, levee-failures motivate levees with small capacity."

For more information on this research see: Humanitarian response to hurricane disasters: Coordinating flood-risk mitigation with fundraising and relief operations. Naval Research Logistics, 2018;65(3):275-288. Naval Research Logistics can be contacted at: Wiley, 111 River St, Hoboken 07030-5774, NJ, USA. (Wiley-Blackwell - www.wiley.com/; Naval Research Logistics - onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1002/(ISSN)1520-6750)

Our news journalists report that additional information may be obtained by contacting A.K. Chakravarty, Northeastern Univ, DAmore McKim Sch Business, Boston, MA 02115, United States.

The direct object identifier (DOI) for that additional information is: https://doi.org/10.1002/nav.21801. This DOI is a link to an online electronic document that is either free or for purchase, and can be your direct source for a journal article and its citation.

Keywords for this news article include: Boston, Massachusetts, United States, North and Central America, Naval Research, Northeastern University.

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