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Vulnerability and resilience of transport systems

Essentially, risk management is all about mitigation, whereas adaptation lays the groundwork for resilience. Risk management is only about preparedness, response, and recovery. By adding adaptation to those three we also add resilience.

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ARTICLES and PAPERS
Next time in China: Guanxi
Today's post is an extension of what I wrote yesterday, in my review of what Fu Jia and Christine Ru[...]
Committed Americans and Trusting Germans
Obviously, selecting the right third-party logistics provider (3PL) for your supply chain is an impo[...]
BOOKS and BOOK CHAPTERS
Book Review: The Full Costs and Benefits of Transportation
This book, The Full Costs and Benefits of Transportation: Contributions to Theory, Method and Measur[...]
Book Review: HBR on Supply Chain Management
Today we continue my exploration of the Harvard Business Review Paperback Series that I started yes[...]
REPORTS and WHITEPAPERS
A Decade of Living Dangerously
Do you remember the movie The Year of Living Dangerously with Mel Gibson? Topically unrelated maybe,[...]
Hiperos - the Integrated View of Supplier Risk
Supply chains have gone global. No longer are they a point-to-chain of goods flowing from a source t[...]
from HERE and THERE
Transportation reliability and vulnerability
This is a philosophical essay on transportation vulnerability, where three fields or subjects are br[...]
Happy Holidelays!
The idea for this post came from a question on Linkedin: Holidays = Holi.delays? One thing is the us[...]