Strategies for Logistics in Case of a Natural Disaster

Abstract

The need to effectively and efficiently provide emergency supplies and services is increasing all over the world. We investigate four policy options? prepositioning supplemental resources, preemptive as well as phased deployment of assets, and a surge of supplies and services?as potential strategies for responding to a disaster. We illustrate the linkage between our four policy options and a disaster classification based upon disaster localization (dispersed or local) and speed of disaster onset (slow or sudden). We summarize our work by introducing a matrix that aligns logistics strategies with disaster types in order to assist policymakers in their resource management decisions.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 28, 2011
Accession Number
ADA555606

Entities

People

  • Aruna U. Apte
  • Keenan D. Yoho

Organizations

  • Naval Postgraduate School

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Business Administration
  • Department Of Homeland Security
  • Deployment
  • Disasters
  • Emergency Response
  • Government Procurement
  • Humanitarian Assistance
  • Logistics
  • Management Personnel
  • Natural Disasters
  • Operations Research
  • Organizational Structure
  • Public Policy
  • Resource Management
  • Supply Chain
  • Supply Chain Management
  • Systems Engineering

Readers

  • Emergency Management and Homeland Security.
  • Strategic Security Studies
  • Systems Analysis and Design