Introduction to the Special Issue on Humanitarian Applications: Doing Good with Good OR

摘要

Humanitarian applications include research that is primarily directed toward promoting human welfare. For example, humanity's top 10 problems over the next 50 years have been outlined as the following: energy, water, food, environment, poverty, terrorism, disease, education, democracy, and population. Likewise, research focused on planning and responding to disasters can have an immediate impact on reducing loss of life, easing suffering, and advancing human dignity, all of which are goals of humanitarian applications.