Disaster waste clean-up system performance subject to time-dependent disaster waste accumulation

• Published in: Natural hazards (Dordrecht) Vol. 91; no. 2; pp. 717 - 734
• Main Authors: Cheng, Cheng, Zhang, Lihai, Thompson, Russell George
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht Springer Netherlands 01.03.2018; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Accumulation; Capacity; Case studies; Civil Engineering; Decision analysis; Disaster management; Disasters; Earth and Environmental Science; Earth Sciences; Emergency preparedness; Environmental cleanup; Environmental Management; Geophysics/Geodesy; Geotechnical Engineering & Applied Earth Sciences; Hydrogeology; Management systems; Natural Hazards; Original Paper; Reliability; Reliability analysis; Sensitivity analysis; System reliability; Waste management; Disaster waste clean-up; First-order second-moment; Reliability index; Disaster waste accumulation

Disasters can produce a substantial amount of waste that can threaten the capacity of waste management systems. This paper presents a methodology for estimating waste accumulation caused by disasters considering the uncertainty of the timing and scale of disasters that can be used to estimate the re...