"This book furthers the scholarly understanding of SCM in disaster relief, particularly establishing the central role … of logistics in averting and limiting unnecessary hardships"--Provided by publisher. … aid logistics: the Wenchuan and Haiti earthquakes compared / Anthony Beresford and Stephen Pettit -- 5. The application of …

"This book is concentrated on the key players of the outsourcing paradigm; the organizations that provide logistics … services, the Third Party Logistics (3PL's), as well as their clients, presenting and promoting the lessons learned by their …General views of logistics, outsourcing, and logistics outsourcing / Leonidas Baziotopoulos -- A framework for the …

cutting-edge distributed and collaborative ICT to advance disaster management as a discipline to cope with current and future …1. A systemic approach to managing natural disasters / Jaime Santos-Reyes, Alan Beard -- 2. ICT approaches in disaster … / Hamdan Dhanhani, Angus Duncan, David Chester -- 6. Disaster informatics / Jishnu Subedi -- 7. Efficient deployment of ICT …

"This book highlights examples of disaster situations in recent years in which social and information technologies were …-collaboration help disaster response / Tiziana Catarci ... [et al.] -- Experience report: using a cloud computing environment during …

. A practical reference for those involved in disaster response and management, it explores fascinating topics including … -- Psychosocial Effects: A Silent Influence -- Individual Reactions and Psychological Impact -- Disaster Promulgation and Collective …

Considerations for a model of public-private sector collaboration in the provision of disaster relief: incentives and … emergency management: a gap analysis / Marvine Hamner -- Compassion organizing for public-private collaboration in disaster … -- Corporate social responsibility in enhancing disaster education / Sudha Arlikatti, James Kendra, Eliot Jennings -- Using systems …

1. A Case study of Singapore as a logistics cluster / Rahul Krishnan ... [et al.] -- 2. Transport and logistics in … Dubai: a high stakes play / Michael Thorpe and Sumit Mitra -- 3. Assessing trade friendliness of logistics services in ASEAN … and Mark Goh -- 12. GIS, grid computing and RFID in healthcare information supply chain: a case for infectious disaster …

analysis of RFID in hospitals / Daniel E. O'Leary -- 11. Collaboration in cyber transportation logistics: paradigms and … model of logistics enterprise: a Chinese perspective / Zhang Mu ... [et al.] -- 15. Managing customer-centric information …