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Given their nature, disasters are generally characterized by a high level of uncertainty. In fact, both their occurrence and their consequences are not easily anticipated. Thus, NGOs and civil protection often have to take decisions and plan for their operations without having the possibility of relying on exact or complete information on the magnitude of the disaster. Over the years, a number of works and methodologies that address uncertainty in Disaster Management have been presented in the literature. In this chapter we review different forms of tackling uncertainty in Humanitarian Logistics for Disaster Management and propose a classification of the advances in this research field.
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Liberatore, F., Pizarro, C., de Blas, C.S., Ortuño, M.T., Vitoriano, B. (2013). Uncertainty in Humanitarian Logistics for Disaster Management. A Review. In: Vitoriano, B., Montero, J., Ruan, D. (eds) Decision Aid Models for Disaster Management and Emergencies. Atlantis Computational Intelligence Systems, vol 7. Atlantis Press, Paris. https://doi.org/10.2991/978-94-91216-74-9_3
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