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Humanitarian response to hurricane disasters: Coordinating flood‐risk mitigation with fundraising and relief operations

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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 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. In contrast, levee‐failures motivate levees with small capacity.

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  • Amiya K. Chakravarty, 2018. "Humanitarian response to hurricane disasters: Coordinating flood‐risk mitigation with fundraising and relief operations," Naval Research Logistics (NRL), John Wiley & Sons, vol. 65(3), pages 275-288, April.
  • Handle: RePEc:wly:navres:v:65:y:2018:i:3:p:275-288
    DOI: 10.1002/nav.21801
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