Livestock Evacuation Planning for Natural and Man-made Emergencies. Issue 1 (March 2013)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Vogiatzis, Chrysafis; Yoshida, Ruriko; Aviles-Spadoni, Ines; Imamoto, Shigeki; Pardalos, Panos M.
• Is Part Of: International journal of mass emergencies & disasters. Volume 31:Issue 1(2013)
• Page Start: 25
• Page End: 37
• Publication Date: 2013-03
• Subjects: animal evacuation plan -- livestock -- nuclear power accidents -- natural and man-made disasters
• DOI: 10.1177/028072701303100103
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0280-7270

Abstract

On March 11, 2011, Japan was struck by the Great East Japan earthquake followed by a 23-foot tsunami, which crippled the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant. Because of a lack of plans for livestock evacuation in the case of a nuclear power plant accident, local farmers in the Fukushima exclusion zone had significant losses. Development of a rigorous and mathematical formulation of an evacuation plan for livestock in a case of disasters is essential for producers to lessen the financial and emotional impacts. Thus, we propose two mathematical models for evacuation plan for livestock in the area around a nuclear power plant using integer programming over networks. Since solving an evacuation problem on a time dynamic network is NP-hard, we propose algorithms to estimate an optimal solution for our problem. The methods and models discussed herein apply not only to nuclear plant related disasters, but also to a variety of other emergencies.