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Sustainability in Humanitarian Logistics—Why and How?

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Humanitarian Logistics and Sustainability

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Concepts in humanitarian logistics have been a field of increasing interest as well as research and publication activities in the last decade, especially triggered by the response and logistics failures of the 2004 Haiti earthquake. Since then, many things have changed, inside humanitarian organizations (NGOs) with more professional logistics management and preparedness concepts as well as within government organizations, namely the UN organizations with the OCHA coordination effort in order to improve global alignment of humanitarian logistics assets and processes. Also, logistics research has contributed largely to the new professional development of humanitarian logistics, i.e. by transferring and adapting concepts from business logistics to the humanitarian sector or applying many field and case studies in order to understand the specific requirements and conditions in the field better.

The support by Harold Teng, Mark Goh and Carmelita Liwag in preparing the ASEAN statistics and case report are deeply appreciated.

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    Annual Disaster Statistical Review 2012, Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters (CRED), Institute of Health and Society, Catholic University de Louvain, Brussels, Belgium.

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    See UNISDR, Global Assessment Report on Disaster Risk Reduction (2013).

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    For more information, see http://www.ahacentre.org.

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  1. Institute for Logistics and Service Management, FOM University of Applied Sciences, Essen, Germany

    Matthias Klumpp

  2. Department of Information, Logistics and Innovation, VU University Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    Sander de Leeuw

  3. Nottingham Business School, Nottigham Trent University, Nottingham, UK

    Sander de Leeuw

  4. Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy

    Alberto Regattieri

  5. The Logistics Institute Asia Pacific, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore

    Robert de Souza

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  1. Institute for Logistics and Service Management, FOM University of Applied Sciences Essen, Essen, Germany

    Matthias Klumpp

  2. Nottingham Business School, AmsterdamVU, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Amsterdam, The Netherlands & Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham, United Kingdom

    Sander de Leeuw

  3. Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy

    Alberto Regattieri

  4. The Logistics Institute Asia Pacific, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore

    Robert de Souza

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Klumpp, M., de Leeuw, S., Regattieri, A., de Souza, R. (2015). Sustainability in Humanitarian Logistics—Why and How?. In: Klumpp, M., de Leeuw, S., Regattieri, A., de Souza, R. (eds) Humanitarian Logistics and Sustainability. Lecture Notes in Logistics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-15455-8_1

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