Disaster supply chain: a comparison between developing and developed
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2021
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Marais, Erika
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Millions of people are affected by natural disasters every year, with a significant impact on people’s lives and livelihoods as well as the infrastructure of the affected countries. This research explores the similarities and differences between sudden-onset natural disaster supply chain networks in developing and developed countries. This is achieved through a thorough investigation of the available literature in the form of a structured literature review, followed by a holistic multi-case study where four comparable disaster events were investigated. The identified events are the Iran (2012), Italy (2016), Nepal (2015), and Japan (2011) earthquakes, respectively. Finally, a cross-case analysis of the four identified cases was conducted. Notable findings from the study are first, that the disaster relief effort can be classified as a supply network, secondly that there are three distinct sub-phases during disaster response namely: search and rescue, relief and recovery and finally it can be concluded that disaster response supply chain networks are different in developing and developed countries
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A dissertation submitted to the School of Mechanical, Industrial and Aeronautical Engineering in the Faculty of Engineering and the Built Environment, University of the Witwatersrand, in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Masters in Engineering, 2021