Humanitarian Logistics Planning in Disaster Relief Operations

Logistics Operations and Management

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 291-332

  Nikbakhsh, Ehsan ^a   Zanjirani Farahani, Reza ^b  

^a TARBIAT MODARES UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^b KINGSTON UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Disaster relief management; Humanitarian logistics; Operations research

Indexed keywords

EID: 84882926675     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-12-385202-1.00015-3     Document Type: Chapter

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