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Performance evaluation of Turkish disaster relief management system in 1999 earthquakes using data envelopment analysis

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This study estimates the relative efficiency of disaster relief organizations that participated in the relief activities following the Marmara and Düzce earthquakes that took place in Turkey in 1999. For this purpose, the activities in the response and relief phases of the disaster management cycle following the 1999 earthquakes are classified into four groups: “search and rescue,” “infrastructure rehabilitation and debris removal,” “health care” and “providing basic needs to the disaster victims.” Next, the unbounded data envelopment analysis (DEA) model is applied to estimate the efficiency scores and optimal input/output weights of the decision-making units (DMUs) in these groups. The efficient and inefficient units are then determined, and the target input and output values are determined for the inefficient units. However, some inputs and outputs are found to be zero or are outlier values in the unbounded model results. To eliminate this deficiency, the bounded model is applied by including additional constraints in the unbounded model. After determining a solution with this model, the optimal input/output weights, the efficiency scores of the DMUs and the efficient and inefficient units are determined. The results of the bounded version of the DEA are more accurate than those of the unbounded model. More accurate and reliable results are obtained from the unbounded model because zero and outlier values are eliminated.

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  1. Department of Industrial Engineering, Engineering Faculty, Aksaray University, 68100, Aksaray, Turkey

    Abdullah Korkut Üstün

  2. Department of Industrial Engineering, Engineering Faculty, Boğaziçi University, Bebek, Istanbul, Turkey

    Gülay Barbarosoğlu

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Appendices

Appendix 1

See Tables 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15 and 16.

Table 8 Infrastructure rehabilitation activities dual model for unbounded model
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Table 9 Infrastructure rehabilitation activities for unbounded model targets
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Table 10 Infrastructure rehabilitation activities for unbounded model weights
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Table 11 Providing basic needs dual model for unbounded model
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Table 12 Providing basic needs for unbounded model targets
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Table 13 Providing basic needs for unbounded model weights
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Table 14 Health care efforts dual results for unbounded model
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Table 15 Health care efforts for unbounded model targets
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Table 16 Health care efforts weights for unbounded input-oriented model
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Appendix 2

See Tables 17, 18, 19, 20, 21 and 22.

Table 17 Infrastructure rehabilitation activities for the bounded model weights
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Table 18 Infrastructure rehabilitation activities for bounded model targets
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Table 19 Providing basic needs group for the bounded model weights
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Table 20 Providing basic needs group for the bounded model targets
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Table 21 Health care activities group for the bounded model weights
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Table 22 Health care activities group for bounded model targets
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Üstün, A.K., Barbarosoğlu, G. Performance evaluation of Turkish disaster relief management system in 1999 earthquakes using data envelopment analysis. Nat Hazards 75, 1977–1996 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11069-014-1407-x

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