The Tohoku disasters: Chief lessons concerning the post disaster humanitarian logistics response and policy implications

José Holguín-Veras, Eiichi Taniguchi, Miguel Jaller, Felipe Aros-Vera, Frederico Ferreira and Russell G. Thompson

Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice, 2014, vol. 69, issue C, 86-104

Abstract: This paper describes the findings of the research conducted by the authors on the humanitarian logistic efforts after the cascading disasters that impacted the Tohoku region after the Great East Japan Earthquake of March 11th, 2011. Using a combination of in depth interviews with participants in the relief efforts and meta analyses of news accounts, the authors identified lessons learned by the participants, and the corresponding policy implications and suggestions for improvement of future response efforts.

Keywords: Humanitarian logistics; Disaster policy; Disaster fieldwork; Tohoku disaster (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1016/j.tra.2014.08.003

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