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Book Review: Managing Supply Chain Risk and Vulnerability

Another book by someone from the ISCRIM gang? No, not this time, or perhaps, yes, after all, since several of the ISCRIM members have contributed to it. The book serves a twofold purpose: 1) Understanding and assessing risk in the supply chain, and 2) Decision making and risk mitigation in the supply chain.

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How to Design Mitigation Capabilities

The severity of supply chain disruptions stems from supply chain design characteristics and supply chain mitigation capabilities: Supply Chain Design: supply chain density,supply chain complexity, node criticality. Supply Chain Mitigation Capability: recovery capability, warning capability.

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ARTICLES and PAPERS
Community resilience in times of disaster
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Supply Chain Risk Management - as seen from Space
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BOOKS and BOOK CHAPTERS
Book Review: Security Risk Management - Body of Knowledge
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Appetite versus Attitude
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REPORTS and WHITEPAPERS
Global Risk Reports
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America’s Crumbling Infrastructure
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from HERE and THERE
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