Editorial: OR for sustainable development
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Editorial: OR for sustainable development Elise del Rosario1 · Begoña Vitoriano2
· Gerhard-Wilhelm Weber3,4
Accepted: 7 September 2020 / Published online: 21 September 2020 © Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature 2020
Abstract The presented issue concerns publications presented as part of the Workshop 2018 of the EURO Working Group on Operational Research for Development (EWG-ORD) held in Complutense University of Madrid (Spain), July 5–7. This editorial presents an introduction on sustainable development and the Sustainable Development Goals. It contains short descriptions of the research area presented in individual publications, highlighting their contributions to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals.
1 Introduction On the occasion of the EWG-ORD (Euro Working Group on OR for Development) 2018 Workshop—held in Madrid, Spain (July 5–7, 2018)-, the Central European Journal of Operations Research (CEJOR) invited submissions of papers to a special issue. The special issue focuses on theoretical, methodological and applied Operational Research contributions in improving the lives of people around the world. EURO Working Group on Operational Research for Development (EWG-ORD) was established in 2006. Its aim is to promote and facilitate communication links among European and other researchers working in areas of operational research for development. EWG-ORD has been organizing yearly workshops to promote the importance
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Gerhard-Wilhelm Weber [email protected] Elise del Rosario [email protected] Begoña Vitoriano [email protected]
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IFORS and EWG-ORD, OSSFFI, Eastwood, Bagumbayan, 1110 Quezon City, Metro Manila, Philippines
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Interdisciplinary Mathematics Institute, Complutense University of Madrid, Madrid, Spain
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Poznan University of Technology, Poznan, Poland
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METU, Ankara, Turkey
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of operational research in improving the lives of people in developing and developed countries. The EWG-ORD 2018 Workshop (https://www.euro-online.org/websites/ord/news/ news-item-0/) was a satellite event of the 29th European Conference on Operational Research held in Valencia, Spain (July 8–11, 2018). The Workshop held in the Faculty of Mathematical Sciences of Complutense University of Madrid, being the local organizer the research group UCM-HUMLOG Decision Aid Models for Logistics and Disaster Management (Humanitarian Logistics), by delegation of SEIO (Spanish Society of Statistics and Operational Research).
2 Sustainable development and OR The United Nations Development Programme defines human development as “the process of enlarging people’s choices,” said choices allowing them to “lead a long and healthy life, to be educated, to enjoy a decent standard of living,” as well as “political freedom, other guaranteed human rights and various ingredients of selfrespect.” (UNDP 1997). Development concerns expanding the choices people have, to lead lives that they value, and improving the human condition so that people have the chance to lead ful
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