Graham Heaslip, Peter Tatham

Humanitarian Logistics (eBook, ePUB)

Meeting the Challenge of Preparing for and Responding to Disasters and Complex Emergencies

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

In rapidly developing emergencies, it is vital for aid agencies to understand how to establish an agile supply chain that resists the chaos of a crisis and can cater to unknown needs.

Now in its fourth edition, Humanitarian Logistics presents chapters from a wide range of academics and practitioners and offers cutting edge research into how complex problems such as distribution of the COVID-19 vaccine and provision of relief to victims of natural disasters can be solved. New chapters cover topics such as cash-based humanitarian logistics (HL) systems, sustainability in a HL context and providing logistics services for humanitarian relief.

In recent years, a number of global crises have highlighted the critical role that logistics plays in humanitarian response. There is a vital need to understand how to conduct operations in confused and swiftly changing environments. This book is essential reading for anyone who needs to understand how to effectively manage supply networks during a rapidly developing emergency.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Kogan Page eBook
• Seitenzahl: 376
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Dezember 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781398607156
• Artikelnr.: 66654586

Autorenporträt

Professor Peter Tatham is a member of the Editorial Boards of the Journal of Humanitarian Logistics and Supply Chain Management, and the International Journal of Physical Logistics and Supply Chain Management. He was Professor of Humanitarian Logistics at Griffith University, Australia, and he remains a leading international researcher in the field of humanitarian logistics.

Professor Graham Heaslip is Professor of Logistics Engineering and Head of School of Engineering at Atlantic Technological University, Galway, Ireland. He is a board member of the Humanitarian Logistics Institute (HUMLOG) based at Hanken School of Economics, Helsinki, Finland and is a member of the Editorial Boards of the Journal of Humanitarian Logistics and Supply Chain Management, and the International Journal of Physical Logistics and Supply Chain Management. His work in the field of logistics and supply chain management has gained international recognition, including the Emerald Literati Network Awards for Excellence.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter
00: Introduction; Chapter
01: Impacts of funding systems on humanitarian operations; Chapter
02: Supplier relationships in humanitarian organizations; Chapter
03: Providing logistics services for humanitarian relief; Chapter
04: Risky business revisited
Disasters within disasters; Chapter
05: The journey from a patchy to a comprehensive supply chain in UNHCR (2005
2015); Chapter
06: Humanitarian supply chain service performance; Chapter
07: Network design for pre
positioning emergency relief items; Chapter
08: Competing for scarce resources during emergencies
A system dynamics perspective; Chapter
09: Preparing for cash and voucher assistance
Developing capabilities and building capacities; Chapter
10: Pandemic response and humanitarian logistics; Chapter
11: Helping people and planet
Making the humanitarian supply chain more sustainable; Chapter
12: What next for humanitarian logistics?; Chapter
13: The way forward
Current trends in humanitarian logistics;