Humanitarian Aid Supply Chain Management

Anthony Beresford () and Stephen Pettit ()
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Anthony Beresford: Cardiff University
Stephen Pettit: Cardiff University

Chapter Chapter 18 in Contemporary Operations and Logistics, 2019, pp 341-364 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract This chapter gives an account of Humanitarian Aid Logistics research at Cardiff Business School, under the aegis of the Transport and Shipping Research Group (TSRG), since the mid-1990s. Humanitarian aid is shown to be a special case of logistics operations, albeit one with some similarity with the military antecedents of the science of this discipline. The chapter shows that just as there are many kinds of humanitarian disaster, so there are many forms of response in terms of logistics and supply chain management. Compared with commercial practices, it is argued that humanitarian aid emergencies generate unpredictable demands and, equally important, unpredictable supply responses. As this chapter demonstrates, academic research has been crucial in identifying, assessing, and resolving key problems in humanitarian aid logistics and supply chain relationships, thereby making a powerful contribution to the reduction of the human cost of disasters.

Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-14493-7_18

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