Impact of Incorporating Returns into Pre‐Disaster Deployments for Rapid‐Onset Predictable Disasters

Initial deployment decisions are critical to humanitarian organizations as they pre‐position resources and prepare for predictable disasters, such as hurricanes, floods, and wildfires. Deploying too few resources results in unmet demand, bad publicity, and unhappy donors. However, deploying a large number of resources can also result in bad publicity and unhappy donors due to high costs and wasted resources when disasters do not occur as...