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Robustness, resilience, flexibility and agility

These concepts are often confused, and thus, warrant further explanation. They are distinctively different.

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ARTICLES and PAPERS
What is Freight Transportation System Resilience?
Resilience is the new buzzword in Supply Chain Management, and has slowly trickled into transportati[...]
Resilience revisited
How many ways are there for defining vulnerability and criticality, really? Traditionally, risk matr[...]
BOOKS and BOOK CHAPTERS
Book review: Handbook of Transportation Engineering
Comprehensive and all-encompassing, the Handbook of Transportation Engineering by Myer Kutz (editor)[...]
Book Review: Customs Risk
International trade and global supply chains are filled with goods that are criss-crossing the globe[...]
REPORTS and WHITEPAPERS
Global Risks 2008 - A prediction come true
In my post on Hyper-optimization and supply chain vulnerability: an invisible global risk? I highlig[...]
How New Zealand develops resilient organisations
Is New Zealand better prepared for a disaster than other countries? As our infrastructure and organi[...]
from HERE and THERE
Christchurch earthquake and transportation
Christchurch, New Zealand, has been hit by an earthquake. Having spent some time living there myself[...]
The BBC box
I usually watch the BBC World Business Report every morning and today I learned that BBC News is fol[...]