EMERGENCY LOGISTICS IN NZ: LEARNING FROM AID ORGANISATIONS

Cécile L'Hermitte; Eric Deakins; Peter Tatham

Proceedings of ICLT 2017

EMERGENCY LOGISTICS IN NZ: LEARNING FROM AID ORGANISATIONS

Cécile L'Hermitte; Eric Deakins; Peter Tatham

Waikato Management School, University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand; Waikato Management School, University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand; Griffith Business School, Griffith University, Gold Coast, Australia

International Conference on Logistics & Transport 2017, Bangkok, Thailand, pp. 156-165

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Abstract

Purpose – , logistics practices utilised by two well-respected global aid organisations are examined and good practices from the humanitarian logistics field are identified. Then, a review of the publicly available emergency management and logistics-focused documentation, including MCDEM’s logistics guidelines (MCDEM, 2015b), is used to ascertain whether these practices are used by the NZ’s emergency management agencies. Conducting such a comparative study is expected to support the identification of mech

Keywords

logistics; port; humanitarian

Citation

Cécile L'Hermitte; Eric Deakins; Peter Tatham (2017). EMERGENCY LOGISTICS IN NZ: LEARNING FROM AID ORGANISATIONS. Proceedings of the International Conference on Logistics & Transport (ICLT 2017), Bangkok, Thailand, pp. 156-165.