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Humanitarian Logistics and Sustainability

  • Combines conceptual and strategic approaches to sustainability in humanitarian supply chains
  • Provides operational examples and concepts including evaluations of hurdles and hands-on approaches
  • Covers global perspectives written by international contributors
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Logistics (LNLO)

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-viii
  2. Strategies for Sustainability

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
    2. Sustainability in Humanitarian Logistics—Why and How?

      • Matthias Klumpp, Sander de Leeuw, Alberto Regattieri, Robert de Souza
      Pages 3-9
  3. Sustainable Operations in Procurement and Preparedness

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 65-65
    2. Investigating the Barriers to Sustainable Procurement in the United Nations

      • Jacob Hasselbalch, Nives Costa, Alexander Blecken
      Pages 67-86
    3. Disaster Management Capacity Building at Airports and Seaports

      • Bernd Hellingrath, Teo A. Babun, James F. Smith, Daniel Link
      Pages 87-112
    4. Emergency Preparedness of Humanitarian Organizations: A System Dynamics Approach

      • Chenrong Ni, Robert de Souza, Qing Lu, Mark Goh
      Pages 113-127
    5. Sustainable Humanitarian Logistics Optimization—A Hub Concept for Germany Based on the Shapley Value

      • Hella Abidi, Christof Kandel, Matthias Klumpp, Solveig Zinnert
      Pages 129-148
  4. Sustainable Operations Preparation and Implementation

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 151-151
    2. Managing Hazardous Goods in Humanitarian Supply Chains

      • Dorit Schumann-Bölsche
      Pages 151-168
    3. Classification of Technical Requirements and the Means of Addressing the Problem of Waste Management in a Refugee Camp

      • Alberto Regattieri, Giulia Santarelli, Francesco Piana, Mauro Gamberi
      Pages 169-192
    4. A Sustainable Humanitarian Relief Network Study for the Wenchuan Earthquake

      • Xie Wei, Abbas Al-Refaie, Melissa Robles, Bernd Noche
      Pages 193-213

About this book

This contributed volume combines conceptual and strategic research articles dealing with the "why" and "to what end" of sustainable operations in humanitarian logistics, as well as operational research contributions regarding the "how" from the United Nations as well as from researchers and organizations from different countries (Germany, Australia, Singapore, Netherlands, Italy, Denmark, Jordan). The target audience primarily comprises research experts, decision makers and practitioners in the field, but the book may also be beneficial for graduate students.

Editors and Affiliations

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

    Matthias Klumpp

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

    Sander Leeuw

  • Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy

    Alberto Regattieri

  • The Logistics Institute Asia Pacific, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore

    Robert Souza

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Humanitarian Logistics and Sustainability

  • Editors: Matthias Klumpp, Sander Leeuw, Alberto Regattieri, Robert Souza

  • Series Title: Lecture Notes in Logistics

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-15455-8

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Engineering, Engineering (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-15454-1Published: 24 March 2015

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-36599-2Published: 06 October 2016

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-15455-8Published: 26 February 2015

  • Series ISSN: 2194-8917

  • Series E-ISSN: 2194-8925

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VIII, 260

  • Number of Illustrations: 21 b/w illustrations, 41 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Engineering Economics, Organization, Logistics, Marketing, Operations Management, Sustainable Development

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eBook USD 119.00
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Hardcover Book USD 159.99
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  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
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