Humanitarian Logistics

Professor Peter Tatham is a leading international researcher in the field of humanitarian logistics, and is the Head of the Department of International Business and Asian Studies at Griffith Business School, Queensland, Australia. Martin Christopher is Emeritus Professor of Marketing and Logistics at Cranfield University, UK. His work in the field of logistics and supply chain management has gained international recognition. He is a regular contributor to conferences and workshops around the world.

Chapter - 00: Introduction [Peter Tatham and Martin Christopher];
Chapter - 01: Process Improvement – A Matter of Life or Death for Non-Governmental Organizations [Paul D. Larson];
Chapter - 02: Impacts of Funding Systems on Humanitarian Operations [Tina Wakolbinger and Fuminori Toyasaki];
Chapter - 03: Introducing Information Communication Technologies (ICTs) Into Humanitarian Programming [Laura Eldon and Anna Kondakhchyan];
Chapter - 04: Technology Meets Humanitarian Logistics – A View on Benefits and Challenges [Peter Tatham, Graham Heaslip and Karen Spens];
Chapter - 05: The Increasing Importance of Services in Humanitarian Logistics [Graham Heaslip];
Chapter - 06: An Exploration of Horizontal Supply Chain Integration for Humanitarian and Disaster Relief [Jihee Kim, Stephen Pettit, Anthony Beresford and Irina Harris];
Chapter - 07: Humanitarian logistics and supply chain management in Africa [Charles Mbohwa, Tatenda Chingono and Paul Buatsi];
Chapter - 08: An Inquiry into Public Procurement for the Civil Preparedness Space – A Case Study in Finland [Hlekiwe Kachali and Isabell Storsjö];
Chapter - 09: Supply chain and logistics competencies for the humanitarian logistician [Graham Heaslip, Alain Vaillancourt, Peter Tatham and Gyöngyi Kovács];
Chapter - 10: Application of centre-of-gravity analysis in network design for pre-positioning of emergency relief items [Gerard de Villiers];
Chapter - 11: Humanitarian logistics – The Functional Challenges Facing Field Offices [Ira Haavisto, Peter Tatham, Hanna-Riitta Harilainen, Cécile L’Hermitte, Magnus Larsson and Alain Vaillancourt]
Chapter - 12: Supply Chain Improvement at ShelterBox – A Case Study of the Application of Lean Principles and Techniques in a Disaster Relief Organisation [David Taylor and Darren Moss];
Chapter - 13: Emergency Management and Logistics Responsiveness – A Study of the Christchurch Earthquakes 2011 [Mark Wilson, Shaun Fogarty, Walter Glass and Paul Childerhouse];
Chapter - 14: What next for Humanitarian Logistics? A Practitioner’s Perspective [George Fenton and Rebecca Lewin];
Chapter - 15: Where next? A glimpse of the future of humanitarian logistics [Gyöngyi Kovács];