期刊
JOURNAL OF OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT
卷 31, 期 5, 页码 262-280出版社
WILEY
DOI: 10.1016/j.jom.2013.06.002
关键词
Humanitarian logistics; Deprivation cost; Human suffering; Optimization
资金
- National Science Foundation [CMMI-0624083, NSF-CMS-SGER 0554949, NSF-IIS 1124827]
- National Science Foundation (NSF-RAPID)
- Direct For Computer & Info Scie & Enginr
- Div Of Information & Intelligent Systems [1123924] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
The paper argues that welfare economic principles must be incorporated in post-disaster humanitarian logistic models to ensure delivery strategies that lead to the greatest good for the greatest number of people. The paper's analyses suggest the use of social costs the summation of logistic and deprivation costs as the preferred objective function for post-disaster humanitarian logistic models. The paper defines deprivation cost as the economic valuation of the human suffering associated with a lack of access to a good or service. The use of deprivation costs is evaluated with a review of the philosophy and the economic literature to identify proper foundations for their estimation; a comparison of different proxy approaches to consider human suffering (e.g., minimization of penalties or weight factors, penalties for late deliveries, equity constraints, unmet demands) and their implications; and an analysis of the impacts of errors in estimation. In its final sections, the paper conducts numerical experiments to illustrate the comparative impacts of using the proxy approaches suggested in the literature, and concludes with a discussion of key findings. (C) 2013 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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