Dynamics of Disasters—Key Concepts, Models, Algorithms, and Insights Kalamata, Greece, June–July 2015

This volume results from the “Second International Conference on Dynamics of Disasters” held in Kalamata, Greece, June 29-July 2, 2015. The conference covered particular topics involved in natural and man-made disasters such as war, chemical spills, and wildfires. Papers in this volume examine the finer points of disasters through:

An assessment of the impact of natural and technological disasters using a DEA approach.- Selective Routing for Post-Disaster Needs Assessments.- Bridging the Gap: Preparing for Long-Term Infrastructure Disruptions.- Multi-Hazard Scenarios and Impact Mapping for a Protected Built Area in Bucharest, as a base for Emergency Planning.- Lean thinking and UN field operations: A successful co-existence?.- Collaborative incident planning and the common operational picture.- Metaheuristic Optimization for Logistics in Natural Disasters.- Tsunami of the meteoric origin.- The Donation Collections Routing Problem.- Network criticality and network complexity indicators for the assessment of critical infrastructures during disasters.- Freight Service Provision for Disaster Relief: A Competitive Network Model with Computations.- A Mean-Variance Disaster Relief Supply Chain Network Model for Risk Reduction with Stochastic Link Costs, Time Targets, and Demand Uncertainty.- A Review of Current Earthquake and Fire Preparedness Campaigns: What works?.- The Impact of the Syria Crisis on Lebanon.- Absenteeism Impact on Local Economy During a Pandemic via Hybrid SIR Dynamics.- Tornado Detection with Kernel-Based Classifiers from WSR-88D Radar Data.- Evacuation modeling and betweenness centrality.- Ode to the Humanitarian Logistician: Humanistic Logistics through a Nurse’s Eye.