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

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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.

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Acknowledgments

The financial supports from National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 71322101 and 71271195 for Prof. Feng Yang, Grant No. 71271199 for Prof. Shaofu Du and Grant No. 71110107024 for Prof. Liang Liang) are acknowledged.

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  1. School of Management, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, 230026, People’s Republic of China

    Feng Yang, Qianqian Yuan, Shaofu Du & Liang Liang

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Appendix: Information of selected strategies

Appendix: Information of selected strategies

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Table 7 70 Representative allocation portfolios and their efficiencies
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Table 8 Values of attributes of 70 representative allocation portfolios
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Table 9 Optimal equity-oriented strategy
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Table 10 Optimal effectiveness-oriented strategy
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Yang, F., Yuan, Q., Du, S. et al. Reserving relief supplies for earthquake: a multi-attribute decision making of China Red Cross. Ann Oper Res 247, 759–785 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10479-014-1749-5

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