Host: Eastern Asia Society for Transportation Studies
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Livestock evacuation is considered as a response action, which can potentially minimize loss and impact on farming activities. Efforts in assessing the feasibility and logistics of livestock evacuation during disasters have been limited. This paper focuses in assessing livestock evacuation as part of emergency response actions following a major natural disaster. We present an assessment framework of livestock evacuation during major natural disasters. The assessment framework illustrates the extreme difficulty, if not impossibility inherent in evacuating the required number of dairy cows in an acceptable period of time. It is recommended that full livestock evacuation is not considered in future volcanic eruptions, especially large magnitude volcanic eruptions which deposit a significant amount of ash.
