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Acts of God or Acts of Man?

Do we ever learn? How come we humans knowingly and willingly put ourselves and our critical infrastructure in harm’s way time and again? Instead of living with and adjusting to natural hazards, we turn them into natural disasters, by our own doings and short-sighted decisions.

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ARTICLES and PAPERS
Not all risk is risk
How to define, understand and describe risk
I had planned to post this yesterday, when I was taken by surprise by the most severe supply chain a[...]
Call for papers: Humanitarian Logistics
With resilience as one the main themes for this blog, from time to time I have written posts on disa[...]
BOOKS and BOOK CHAPTERS
The Definition of Agility
Although getting close to 20 years old now, The Agile Virtual Enterprise: Cases, Metrics, Tools, wri[...]
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
How New Zealand develops resilient organisations
Is New Zealand better prepared for a disaster than other countries? As our infrastructure and organi[...]
ISO 28002 – Supply Chain Resilience
Have you heard of ISO 28002?  No? You should take note of this standard, because the ISO 28000 serie[...]
from HERE and THERE
Finding academic articles without academic journals
As a researcher within supply chain risk, I try to read as many academic journals as possible, and I[...]
Suites - what suites?
I have been swamped with work this week. In fact, so swamped that I forgot to watch episode two of "[...]