Relief-Chain Logistics in Natural Disasters

Purvishkumar Patel (), Repaul Kanji and Rajat Agrawal
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Purvishkumar Patel: IIT Roorkee
Repaul Kanji: IIT Roorkee
Rajat Agrawal: IIT Roorkee

Chapter Chapter 20 in Managing Humanitarian Logistics, 2016, pp 297-304 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract This paper deals with the most simplistic logistics that is usually applied or can be applied to ensure proper relief and rescue operation during a disaster, be it natural or man-made. The basic problems of rescue and relief operations during an emergency or a disaster are very trivial yet they pose the most critical danger: proper delineation of the affected zone; the immediate loss that can be accounted for; the immediate help and resources needed to sustain the population; tracking of local rescue operators; tracking, positioning, and monitoring the activities of the deployed rescue workers; accounting the safe and usable resources; accounting the resources, goods, and relief materials distributed during relief and rehabilitation operation; monitoring the utilization of the resources distributed; and ensuring just and equitable distribution. Thus, it is only after the initial trauma of disaster that rescue and relief operations become a priority and play the most vital role in proper revival of the affected population.

Keywords: Relief Chain Logistics; Natural Disaster; Relief and Rescue Operations; Humanitarian Response (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1007/978-81-322-2416-7_20

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