Last mile logistics for disaster relief supply chain management : challenges and opportunities for humanitarian aid and emergency relief /

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Author / Creator:Decker, Michael, author.
Imprint:Hamburg, Germany : Anchor Academic Publishing, 2014.
©2014
Description:1 online resource (38 pages) : illustrations, tables.
Language:English
Series:Compact
Compact.
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12398278
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ISBN:9783954896585
3954896583
9783954891580
Notes:Includes bibliographical references.
English.
Online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed April 14, 2014).
Summary:Due to the latest catastrophes caused by both man and nature, humanitarian logistics has received increasing interest from academics, practitioners and specialists. These interests are increased as well by an expanding market of disaster relief and by the fact that disaster relief supply chains are complex and dynamic, not to mention that they have a lot of uncertainties that make operations very complicated. Especially in disaster relief, the supply chains have to be fast, agile and flexible in order to rapidly provide the appropriate amount, and type of emergency supplies, to minimize human.
Other form:Print version: Decker, Michael. Last mile logistics for disaster relief supply chain management : challenges and opportunities for humanitarian aid and mergency relief. Hamburg, Germany : Anchor Academic Publishing, ©2014 viii, 31 pages Compact. 9783954891580