Humanitarian logistics
Subtitle: meeting the challenge of preparing for and responding to disasters
By: Martin Christopher, Peter Tatham
Contributors: Tatham, Peter
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Kogan Page
Published: 2011
Place of publication: London; Philadelphia, Pa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 270
ISBN-13: 9780749462468; 9780749462475
Subjects: Emergency management; Business logistics; Humanitarian assistance
Table of contents: title: Risky business: what humanitarians can learn from business logisticians and vice versa / Paul D Larson; title: Impacts of funding systems on humanitarian operations / Tina Wakolbinger and Fuminori Toyasaki; title: The importance of information technology in humanitarian supply chains: opportunities and challenges in the Helios project / Martijn Blansjaar and Charl van der Merwe; title: Humanitarian logistics metrics: where we are and how we might improve / Peter Tatham and Kate Hughes; title: Humanitarian logistics and the cluster approach: global shifts and the us perspective / Nezih Altay and Melissa Labonte; title: The 2004 Thailand tsunami reviewed: lessons learned / Stephen Pettit, Anthony Beresford, Michael Whiting and Ruth Banomyong; title: The journey to humanitarian supply management: an African perspective / Paul SN Buatsi; title: Humanitarian logistics in the United States: supply chain systems for responding to domestic disasters / Jarrod Goentzel and Karen Spens; title: The supply network's role as an enabler of development/ deb ellis; title: Humanitarian logistics professionalism / David Moore and David Taylor; title: Humanitarian logistics: a cultural perspective / Rachel Dowty; title: The impossible interface?: combining humanitarian logistics and military supply chain capabilities / Jersey Seipel; title: Disaster agencies and military forces: not such strange bedfellows after all / Tim Cross.