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Humanitarian logistics [electronic resource] : meeting the challenge of preparing for and responding to disasters /

by Christopher, Martin; Tatham, Peter; ProQuest (Firm).
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: London ; Philadelphia : Kogan Page, 2011Edition: 1st ed.Description: xviii, 270 p. : ill.ISBN: ; .Subject(s): Humanitarian assistance | Emergency management | Business logistics | Electronic booksOnline resources: Click to View
Contents:
Risky business : what humanitarians can learn from business logisticians and vice versa / Paul D Larson -- Impacts of funding systems on humanitarian operations / Tina Wakolbinger and Fuminori Toyasaki -- The importance of information technology in humanitarian supply chains : opportunities and challenges in the Helios project / Martijn Blansjaar and Charl van der Merwe -- Humanitarian logistics metrics : where we are and how we might improve / Peter Tatham and Kate Hughes -- Humanitarian logistics and the cluster approach : global shifts and the us perspective / Nezih Altay and Melissa Labonte -- The 2004 Thailand tsunami reviewed : lessons learned / Stephen Pettit, Anthony Beresford, Michael Whiting and Ruth Banomyong -- The journey to humanitarian supply management : an African perspective / Paul SN Buatsi -- Humanitarian logistics in the United States : supply chain systems for responding to domestic disasters / Jarrod Goentzel and Karen Spens -- The supply network's role as an enabler of development/ deb ellis -- Humanitarian logistics professionalism / David Moore and David Taylor -- Humanitarian logistics : a cultural perspective / Rachel Dowty -- The impossible interface? : combining humanitarian logistics and military supply chain capabilities / Jersey Seipel -- Disaster agencies and military forces : not such strange bedfellows after all / Tim Cross.
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"The Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport (UK)."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Risky business : what humanitarians can learn from business logisticians and vice versa / Paul D Larson -- Impacts of funding systems on humanitarian operations / Tina Wakolbinger and Fuminori Toyasaki -- The importance of information technology in humanitarian supply chains : opportunities and challenges in the Helios project / Martijn Blansjaar and Charl van der Merwe -- Humanitarian logistics metrics : where we are and how we might improve / Peter Tatham and Kate Hughes -- Humanitarian logistics and the cluster approach : global shifts and the us perspective / Nezih Altay and Melissa Labonte -- The 2004 Thailand tsunami reviewed : lessons learned / Stephen Pettit, Anthony Beresford, Michael Whiting and Ruth Banomyong -- The journey to humanitarian supply management : an African perspective / Paul SN Buatsi -- Humanitarian logistics in the United States : supply chain systems for responding to domestic disasters / Jarrod Goentzel and Karen Spens -- The supply network's role as an enabler of development/ deb ellis -- Humanitarian logistics professionalism / David Moore and David Taylor -- Humanitarian logistics : a cultural perspective / Rachel Dowty -- The impossible interface? : combining humanitarian logistics and military supply chain capabilities / Jersey Seipel -- Disaster agencies and military forces : not such strange bedfellows after all / Tim Cross.

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