Humanitarian Storage and Safeguard Network in the southwestern part of Mexico

Abstract

One of the big threats that human beings confront at present is the risk of extreme weather phenomena caused by climate change. The state of Guerrero is one of the eight states that is most vulnerable to climate change in Mexico. Extreme events due to weather have brought death, destruction, and shortages to the state. With the objective of safeguarding and maintaining quality of life to victims, we present the creation of the Humanitarian Safeguard and Storage Network, or Red de Almacenamiento y Resguardo Humanitario (RARH) in Spanish. Every network node corresponds to a municipality in Guerrero and is evaluated according to its location and level of marginalization. Through the p-median problem, networks of 1, 3, and 12 Humanitarian Safeguard and Storage Nodes, or Nodos de Almacenamiento y Resguardo Humanitario (NARH) in Spanish, were obtained. During the first instance, the minimum distance traveled to the city governments that were not considered as possible sites were evaluated, and during a second evaluation a level of marginalization was added as an additional variable to consider. Feasible solutions were obtained in 67% of the RARH evaluated.