The impacts of natural disasters on global supply chains

Masato Abe () and Linghe Ye
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Linghe Ye: United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP)

No 11512, Working Papers from Asia-Pacific Research and Training Network on Trade (ARTNeT), an initiative of UNESCAP and IDRC, Canada.

Abstract: This paper explores how global supply chains expand the risks of natural disasters and how natural disasters affect supply chain operations in the Asia-Pacific context.

Keywords: Globalization; global supply chain; cross-border business and production networks; international logistics system; natural disaster risk; Japan; Thailand (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F2 F16 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-agr, nep-env and nep-sea
Date: 2012-06
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