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The handling of certain quantities of hazardous materials (toxic, flammable and/or explosive) can potentially create major accidents endangering the public and worker's health, as well as the environment. Emergency response planning consists in assessing protective actions (evacuation, building protection of various degrees) for each and every area section around a hazardous facility. This chapter presents a methodology for the optimization of the response to an emergency situation around chemical plants processing hazardous substances (e.g. oil refineries, pesticide plants) by taking into account multiple criteria. A Multi-Objective Evolutionary Algorithm for the determination of the efficient set of solutions is presented.

The handling of certain quantities of hazardous materials (toxic, flammable and/or explosive) can potentially create major accidents endangering the public and worker’s health, as well as the environment. Emergency response planning consists in assessing protective actions (evacuation, building protection of various degrees) for each and every area section around a hazardous facility. This chapter presents a methodology for the optimization of the response to an emergency situation around chemical plants processing hazardous substances (e.g. oil refineries, pesticide plants) by taking into account multiple criteria. A Multi-Objective Evolutionary Algorithm for the determination of the efficient set of solutions is presented.