Impact of Migration and Urbanization on Cities: an Agent-Based Model on the effects of Migration on the city of The Hague

Migrants are moving in great numbers towards urban areas as a result of urbanization and drivers such as political-, economical- and climate crises. The influx of new people brings new challenges for cities and municipalities to provide for a suitable environment for new and existing citizens whilst preventing adverse effects to occur. Current...

Preventing Airborne Infectious Spreading: The role of airport level operations during epidemics

Infectious diseases are responsible for about one quarter of all deaths worldwide and it is likely that major epidemics will emerge in the near future. Through the airline system, diseases can spread around the world rapidly and are more and more likely to do so. At the same time, air connectivity is essential for countries with inadequate land...

Resilient airports: Using a new resilience measuring approach to evaluate policies that improve the resilience of airports in the immediate post-disaster response

Airports are a special critical infrastructure in a disaster response from a resilience point of view. They must overcome two types of shocks when they are affected by a disaster. They are not only hit by a disaster, which decreases their performances. Airports also need to act as a humanitarian and logistic hub for the disaster response which...

Modelling Humanitarian Interaction: Exploring the factors that determine humanitarian interaction and the policies that influence them through agent-based modelling. The case of information security.

Humanitarian assistance is driven by data and information. Through the whole<br/>chain of actions – from early warning systems to evaluation – information<br/>determines priorities, resource allocation, and donors’ willingness to donate.<br/>However, the potential harm that comes with data is often overlooked. Inadequate<br/>data management...

Multi-Level Energy Focused Integration of Sectors For Rural Development: An Indian Context

India is a country constantly grappling with problems of impeded rural development. Energy, in particular sustainable energy can be seen as key to attain the Sustainable Development Goals set out by the U.N. Integration of rural sectors can be seen as a methodology to broaden the potential achievement of the targetted Sustainable Development...

An exploratory study on the (re)configuration of humanitarian supply chains throughout the disaster life cycle

Benchmarking the digital maturity of the Dutch Health Insurance Companies: with the application of a PCA-DEA model