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Relief-Chain Logistics in Natural Disasters

In: Managing Humanitarian Logistics

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  • Purvishkumar Patel

    (IIT Roorkee)

  • Repaul Kanji

    (IIT Roorkee)

  • Rajat Agrawal

    (IIT Roorkee)

Abstract

This paper deals with the most simplistic logistics that is usually applied or can be applied to ensure proper relief and rescue operation during a disaster, be it natural or man-made. The basic problems of rescue and relief operations during an emergency or a disaster are very trivial yet they pose the most critical danger: proper delineation of the affected zone; the immediate loss that can be accounted for; the immediate help and resources needed to sustain the population; tracking of local rescue operators; tracking, positioning, and monitoring the activities of the deployed rescue workers; accounting the safe and usable resources; accounting the resources, goods, and relief materials distributed during relief and rehabilitation operation; monitoring the utilization of the resources distributed; and ensuring just and equitable distribution. Thus, it is only after the initial trauma of disaster that rescue and relief operations become a priority and play the most vital role in proper revival of the affected population.

Suggested Citation

  • Purvishkumar Patel & Repaul Kanji & Rajat Agrawal, 2016. "Relief-Chain Logistics in Natural Disasters," Springer Proceedings in Business and Economics, in: B.S. Sahay & Sumeet Gupta & Vinod Chandra Menon (ed.), Managing Humanitarian Logistics, edition 1, chapter 0, pages 297-304, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:prbchp:978-81-322-2416-7_20
    DOI: 10.1007/978-81-322-2416-7_20
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