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bureaucracy. It discusses private and public sector responses to the situation in New Orleans following Katrina and to disasters … that a large and bureaucratized response to disasters hinders economic calculation, incentive structure, and property … that the role of the price system in allocating resources is especially important following disasters and that in order to …
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planning and coordinating the inter‐governmental response to disasters. Specifically, this study identifies ten disaster frames …
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deal with them will govern how rapidly they are able to grow. There is too much emphasis on “major disasters” like floods … recovery planning served as a foundation for this article, though the real‐world stories of how companies handled disasters was … (respond phase) and, return to normal (rebuild phase). They must also think about three levels of disruption because disasters …
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Purpose – Humanitarian Supply chain Management (HSCM) is concerned with managing the efficient flow of aid materials, information and services to reduce the impact of disaster on human lives. Post 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, the relief activities in India were not planned and executed properly....
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Purpose – Terrorist attacks, natural disasters, and regional power outages from the past several years have all …
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Purpose – This paper aims to further the understanding of planning and carrying out logistics operations in disaster relief. Design/methodology/approach – Topical literature review of academic and practitioner journals. Findings – Creates a framework distinguishing between actors, phases,...
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view to improving the outcome for those affected by current and future disasters.  …
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to determine how facility managers currently plan for emergencies and disaster recovery. Although preparation and drills have been demonstrated to improve lifesaving and business recovery capabilities, many organisations still do not have these plans. The...
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International humanitarian aid is pivotal in the response to natural disasters suffered by low-and middle … political leaders and the geographic distribution of ethnic groups within countries with high numbers of natural disasters … Disaster Assistance (OFDA) disburses larger amounts of aid when natural disasters affect the birth region of the countries …
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