Balancing provision of relief and recovery with capacity building in humanitarian operations

Operations Management Research

Volumn 4, Issue 1-2, 2011, Pages 39-50

  Gonçalves, Paulo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LUGANO   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Capacity building; Causal loop diagrams; Humanitarian relief and recovery operations; Simulation modeling; System dynamics

Indexed keywords

EID: 79955399596     PISSN: 19369735     EISSN: 19369743     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12063-011-0045-7     Document Type: Article

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