Humanitarian logistics : meeting the challenge of preparing for and responding to disasters /: meeting the challenge of preparing for and responding to disasters. (2018)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Peter Tatham and Martin Christopher.
• Editors: Tatham, Peter; Christopher, Martin
• Contents: <ul style='padding-top:0;padding-left:0;list-style:none;'><ul style='padding-top:0;list-style:none;'>Chapter - 00: Introduction [Peter Tatham and Martin Christopher]; Chapter - 01: Process Improvement – A Matter of Life or Death for Non-Governmental Organizations [Paul D. Larson]; Chapter - 02: Impacts of Funding Systems on Humanitarian Operations [Tina Wakolbinger and Fuminori Toyasaki]; Chapter - 03: Introducing Information Communication Technologies (ICTs) Into Humanitarian Programming [Laura Eldon and Anna Kondakhchyan]; Chapter - 04: Technology Meets Humanitarian Logistics – A View on Benefits and Challenges [Peter Tatham, Graham Heaslip and Karen Spens]; Chapter - 05: The Increasing Importance of Services in Humanitarian Logistics [Graham Heaslip]; Chapter - 06: An Exploration of Horizontal Supply Chain Integration for Humanitarian and Disaster Relief [Jihee Kim, Stephen Pettit, Anthony Beresford and Irina Harris]; Chapter - 07: Humanitarian logistics and supply chain management in Africa [Charles Mbohwa, Tatenda Chingono and Paul Buatsi]; Chapter - 08: An Inquiry into Public Procurement for the Civil Preparedness Space – A Case Study in Finland [Hlekiwe Kachali and Isabell Storsjö]; Chapter - 09: Supply chain and logistics competencies for the humanitarian logistician [Graham Heaslip, Alain Vaillancourt, Peter Tatham and Gyöngyi Kovács]; Chapter - 10: Application of centre-of-gravity analysis in network design for pre-positioning of emergency relief items [Gerard de Villiers]; Chapter - 11: Humanitarian logistics – The Functional Challenges Facing Field Offices [Ira Haavisto, Peter Tatham, Hanna-Riitta Harilainen, Cécile L’Hermitte, Magnus Larsson and Alain Vaillancourt] Chapter - 12: Supply Chain Improvement at ShelterBox – A Case Study of the Application of Lean Principles and Techniques in a Disaster Relief Organisation [David Taylor and Darren Moss]; Chapter - 13: Emergency Management and Logistics Responsiveness – A Study of the Christchurch Earthquakes 2011 [Mark Wilson, Shaun Fogarty, Walter Glass and Paul Childerhouse]; Chapter - 14: What next for Humanitarian Logistics? A Practitioner’s Perspective [George Fenton and Rebecca Lewin]; Chapter - 15: Where next? A glimpse of the future of humanitarian logistics [Gyöngyi Kovács];
• Edition: Third edition
• Publisher Details: London : KoganPage
• Publication Date: 2018
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 363.348068; Emergency management; Business logistics
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780749481452
• Related ISBNs: 9780749481445
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