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Managing Humanitarian Logistics
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The worldwide rise in natural and man-made disasters in the last two decades has questioned the very preparedness to cope with them. Although less frequent, such disasters occur with high impact and completely disrupt the daily lives of people resulting in huge loss of lives and capitals to the extent of wiping out the entire city. Countries the world over have been developing mechanisms to deal with such disasters, but recent disasters reveal that the existing preparedness is still far below normal. Particularly, in emerging economics like India, such preparedness is hardly given any preference. The key to cope up with such disasters is logistics, termed as Humanitarian Logistics, organized to make life-saving drugs, food products, and other necessary amenities available to the affected people.
This book is a compendium of selected best papers presented at ICHL 2013 (International Conference on Humanitarian Logistics), organized by IIM Raipur on the 2nd and 3rd of December 2013. ICHL 2013 is the first conference organized in India to address the key issue of Humanitarian Logistics. This book addresses global call for effective Humanitarian Logistics.
The holistic approach to the management of Humanitarian Logistics requires addressing four key areas, namely, designing and planning humanitarian response strategies, developing strategies for efficient Humanitarian Logistics, modeling Humanitarian Logistics, and preparedness for emergency humanitarian response. This book addresses these key areas for Humanitarian Logistics.
Part I discusses about the importance of design and planning in a disaster situation. With the ever-growing natural and man-made disasters reaching epic proportion, the need for nodal agencies with appropriately trained manpower, know-how, and machinery to reduce, avoid, and hedge the uncertainty is para- mount. Thus, design and planning are the primary aspects of Humanitarian Logis- tics that deal with preparedness for emergency well in advance with various logistics designs and planning strategies. Sahay et al. (2014) discuss the inherent issues in managing Humanitarian Logistics from the perspective of design and implementation. Papers presented in this section also discuss about the barriers and critical success factors of an efficient humanitarian supply chain
B.S. Sahay • Sumeet Gupta and Vinod Chandra Menon - Personal Name
1st Edtion
978-81-322-2416-7
NONE
Managing Humanitarian Logistics
Management
English
Springer New Delhi Heidelberg
2016
New York
1-324
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