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Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 14 uppsatser innehållade orden Disaster Cycle.
1. Humanitarian Logistics: The Outsourcing Collaboration with Logistics Service Providers in the UN System
Master-uppsats, Jönköping University/Internationella HandelshögskolanSammanfattning : Background: Collaboration between humanitarian organisations and commercial as well as humanitarian logistics service providers has become of utmost importance when outsourcing logistics activities. Selection criteria for choosing suitable logistics service providers areessential for the success of outsourcing collaboration and disaster operations. LÄS MER
2. Floods and landslides in the Bakokwe catchment, Rwanda: Causes, consequences, and future challenges
Master-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för Teknisk vattenresursläraSammanfattning : Rwanda is highly exposed to floods and landslides due to intense precipitation, rapid population growth, varied topography and agricultural growth. One of the most vulnerable areas is the Nyabarongo catchment. A subcatchment of the Nyabarongo catchment, Bakokwe, was chosen as a case study for this thesis. LÄS MER
3. Exploring Collaborative Mobile Storage Units in the Humanitarian Supply Chain
Master-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Teknisk logistikSammanfattning : This thesis is an explorative single case study on the United Nations Logistics Cluster with the purpose to explore the usage of collaborative Mobile Storage Unit (MSU) warehouses in terms of determining their activities’ and decisions’ connection to the disaster management cycle, as well as their challenges’ connection to the contextual factors of the humanitarian supply chain (HSC). It attempts to answer questions (1) What are the collaborative MSU activities and decisions throughout the phases of the disaster management cycle? and (2) How do humanitarian contextual factors influence challenges to collaborative MSU activities and decisions in humanitarian logistics?. LÄS MER
4. Fire Risk and Vulnerability in Urban Informal Settlements in Metro Manila
Master-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för Riskhantering och SamhällssäkerhetSammanfattning : Urban fires, particularly in informal settlements in rapidly urbanizing cities in the developing world, are an “everyday disaster” that oftentimes goes unnoticed or under-served in the face of disturbances of the more “lethal reputation”. These disturbances of normal existence are arguably the most debilitating to vulnerable communities and sustainable development, and yet get little attention in disaster literature or in practice. LÄS MER
5. Investigating the Practice of Disaster Risk Reduction Mainstreaming into Development : the Experience of a Development Organization
Master-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för Riskhantering och SamhällssäkerhetSammanfattning : The understanding of development and disaster nexus has enforced the international community to think and act differently. Disaster risk reduction mainstreaming has been embraced as one of our best approach for sustainable development and has been consistently featured in international discussions. LÄS MER
