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Christchurch earthquake…again!?!

Oh dear…another earthquake in Christchurch, New Zealand, less than 6 months after the previous disaster, and this time perhaps even more devastating. One thing for sure, this community is having its disaster plans, business continuity measures and its resilience (and resolve) tested to the full

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Christchurch earthquake and transportation

Christchurch, New Zealand, has been hit by an earthquake. How will the city recover? Will they be able to pull together the resources and quickly return to business as usual? I believe they will.

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Resilience Lessons from the Haiti Earthquake

The recent earthquake in Haiti is a poignant reminder of how vulnerable a country is when it is facing disaster on a grand scale.

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Defining and Measuring Economic Resilience

In contrast to the pre-event character of mitigation, economic resilience emphasizes ingenuity and resourcefulness applied during and after the event. It focuses on the fact that individuals and organizations do not simply react passively or in a “business as usual manner” in the face of a disaster.

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ARTICLES and PAPERS
3PL Outsourcing - Challenges and Benefits
A couple of weeks ago I blogged about the flexibility of the logistics provider and how the transpor[...]
The world we live in: Risk Society
We live in a world that is full of risk, risks that we to a large degree have created ourselves, and[...]
BOOKS and BOOK CHAPTERS
What are Logistics Clusters?
This is a guest post by Professor Yossi Sheffi, Director, MIT Center for Transportation & Logist[...]
Book Review:Managing Risks in Supply Chains
To make up for yesterday's perhaps overly harsh critique of just one article from this book, this is[...]
REPORTS and WHITEPAPERS
The UK Transport Network Resilience...and I
UK Transport Network Resilience
For a budding and even for a seasoned researcher, nothing is more rewarding than to have one's publi[...]
Vulnerable or valuable supply chain?
More than a year old now, but still holding not so few words of wisdom is the Pricewaterhouse Cooper[...]
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Supplier Risk Management
Normally, when finding topics for this blog, it is I who have to seek out and find the established o[...]
Humanitarian and military supply chains side-by side
The recent earthquakes in Samoa in the Pacific and in Padang in Indonesia are a poignant reminder fo[...]