| Description |
1 online resource (224 pages) |
| Contents |
1. Strategic partners and strange bedfellows: relationship building in the relief supply chain / Paul D. Larson -- 2. Humanitarian partnerships -- drivers, facilitators, and components: the case of non-food item distribution in Sudan / Rolando M. Tomasini -- 3. Relief supply chain planning: insights from Thailand / Ruth Banomyong and Apichat Sodapang -- 4. Humanitarian aid logistics: the Wenchuan and Haiti earthquakes compared / Anthony Beresford and Stephen Pettit -- 5. The application of value chain analysis for the evaluation of alternative supply chain strategies for the provision of humanitarian aid to Africa / David H. Taylor -- 6. Designing post-disaster supply chains: learning from housing reconstruction projects / Gyöngyi Kovács, Aristides Matopoulos and Odran Hayes -- 7. Local sourcing in peacekeeping local sourcing in peacekeeping: a case study of Swedish military sourcing / Per Skoglund and Susanne Hertz -- 8. Military involvement in humanitarian supply chains / Elizabeth Barber -- 9. Challenges of civil military cooperation / coordination in humanitarian relief / Graham Heaslip -- 10. Developing and maintaining trust in hastily formed relief networks / Peter Tatham and Gyöngyi Kovács -- 11. A study of barriers to greening the relief supply chain / Joseph Sarkis, Karen M. Spens and Gyöngyi Kovács -- 12. Disaster impact and country logistics performance / Ira Haavisto |
| Summary |
"This book furthers the scholarly understanding of SCM in disaster relief, particularly establishing the central role of logistics in averting and limiting unnecessary hardships"--Provided by publisher |
| Analysis |
Supply chain management |
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Civil-military cooperation |
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GIS |
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Relief supply chains |
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Postponement |
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Speculation |
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Relationship building |
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Collaboration |
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Cooperation |
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Integration |
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Swift trust |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Title screen (IGI Global, viewed July 18, 2011) |
| Subject |
Disaster relief.
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Humanitarian assistance.
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Logistics.
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Relief Work
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Disaster relief
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Humanitarian assistance
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Logistics
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Kovacs, Gyongyi, 1977-
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Spens, Karen M., 1963-
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IGI Global.
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| ISBN |
9781609608255 |
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1609608259 |
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