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Pyramidal thoughts

If you are a supply chain or logistics academic or researcher, looking for a new research strand or looking for a new theoretical approach to preparedness and recovery, then yes, this is it.

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BBC World Debate: Disasters – Prepare or React?

Should we actually bother to spend time and money on disaster mitigation, or should we rather focus on preparing for disaster recovery? Is re-active better than pro-active? To what extent can we really reduce the dangers from future disasters? Does investing in prevention divert funds from rescue efforts when disasters do occur?

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Resilience revisited

How many ways are there for defining vulnerability and criticality, really? Traditionally, risk matrixes have a likelihood/impact approach, but not always. Yesterday, I was examining a criticality/vulnerability matrix.

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ARTICLES and PAPERS
Risks in maritime supply chains
Globalization and international trade is heavily reliant on safe and open waterways. Sea transport c[...]
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
Resilience times four
Resilience. It is not so much about reducing the number of things that go wrong, but it is about imp[...]
Book Review: Reputation Risk
Reputation. Not only is it practically impossible to measure, its value is also frequently underesti[...]
REPORTS and WHITEPAPERS
Global Risks 2012
Are economic imbalances and social inequality risk reversing the gains of globalization? Should we s[...]
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[...]
from HERE and THERE
Sparse transportation networks - a nightmare
E6 Steinkjer Løsberga
Now it has happened again. Hardly a week goes by in Norway without a major supply chain disruption. [...]
Using social media in a crisis
Scandinavian Airlines facebook
Sometimes the timing of Internet launches is just right. And for Scandinavian Airlines (SAS) the tim[...]