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Clinical Simulation in Nursing, 2013
When health care providers rushed to assist after the September 11 attacks, they were neither prepared nor cognizant of the risk of serious respiratory ailments or blood cancer they were exposed to. When community members and nurses traveled to Haiti after the 2010 earthquake, many were not prepared for life in a makeshift camp without potable water ...
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When health care providers rushed to assist after the September 11 attacks, they were neither prepared nor cognizant of the risk of serious respiratory ailments or blood cancer they were exposed to. When community members and nurses traveled to Haiti after the 2010 earthquake, many were not prepared for life in a makeshift camp without potable water ...
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Multicriteria optimization in humanitarian aid
European Journal of Operational Research, 2016In the recent past, the global public has been alarmed by several natural disasters with tremendous consequences. The OR/MS community has reacted by developing quantitative methods to support humanitarian aid, which have become well-established in the areas of disaster operations management and humanitarian logistics.
Walter J. Gutjahr, Pamela C. Nolz
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Humanitarian Aid and the European Union
2020The European Union Humanitarian Aid Policy (EUHAP) operates through the European Commission’s Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid Operations Department (DG ECHO) in international humanitarian crises to help victims of man-made atrocities and natural catastrophes worldwide.
Francesca Pusterla, Elia Pusterla
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The Dynamics of Humanitarian Aid Decisions
Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2013AbstractHumanitarian aid can be seen as a political investment motivated by altruism or by economic benefits for the donor. Uncertainty in the returns to this investment may generate hysteresis effects and inertia in aid allocations. I model the allocation decisions of the three largest humanitarian aid donors: the US government, the UK government and ...
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2009
This chapter provides the reader with a brief introduction on logistics and supply chain management. It identifies the major supply chain issues in the humanitarian sector, particularly as they relate to emergencies and also reveals the need for cross-learning between the private and the humanitarian sector, a topic that we elaborate on throughout the ...
Rolando Tomasini, Luk N. Van Wassenhove
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This chapter provides the reader with a brief introduction on logistics and supply chain management. It identifies the major supply chain issues in the humanitarian sector, particularly as they relate to emergencies and also reveals the need for cross-learning between the private and the humanitarian sector, a topic that we elaborate on throughout the ...
Rolando Tomasini, Luk N. Van Wassenhove
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Securing Peace for Humanitarian Aid?
Journal of International Peacekeeping, 1998Multi‐dimensional UN humanitarian interventions involving elements of enforcement are likely to be the rule in the future. Peacekeeping can become a later phase in a wider process of peace support, which must start with securing peace as the overall priority, without which humanitarian aid becomes unduly compromised.
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2014
Humanitarian aid is the assistance given to people in distress by individuals, organisations or governments with the core purpose of preventing and alleviating human suffering.The principles of humanitarian intervention are impartiality, neutrality and independence.
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Humanitarian aid is the assistance given to people in distress by individuals, organisations or governments with the core purpose of preventing and alleviating human suffering.The principles of humanitarian intervention are impartiality, neutrality and independence.
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1998
The European Community (EC),1 its member states and institutions have played a key role in the evolution of humanitarian aid in recent years. The geopolitical impact of the end of the Cold War era and the proliferation of humanitarian disasters that has ensued since (both natural and man-made) have made the role played by humanitarian actors in ...
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The European Community (EC),1 its member states and institutions have played a key role in the evolution of humanitarian aid in recent years. The geopolitical impact of the end of the Cold War era and the proliferation of humanitarian disasters that has ensued since (both natural and man-made) have made the role played by humanitarian actors in ...
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The challenge of humanitarian aid: an overview
Environmental Hazards, 2013This article outlines current issues in the delivery of humanitarian assistance. It explores the postulates of humanitarian interventions. The increasing level of aid is mapped against changing patterns of natural disaster and complex emergency. The humanitarian system itself is explored by sectors, and levels of global funding are analysed.
Geoff O'Brien +3 more
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