Disaster Management Capacity Building at Airports and Seaports

Hellingrath Bernd, Babun Teo A., Smith James F., Link Daniel


Zusammenfassung
Ports – i.e., airports and seaports – are the main points of entry through which foreign intervention delivers aid into a country that is affected by a disaster. Affected countries are often developing nations, where transport infrastruc-ture is limited and disaster management capacity is considerably lower than in industrialized countries. When developing countries’ ports suffer direct dam-age from a disaster or their processes are unable to handle the increased flow of needed goods in an effective and efficient manner, humanitarian aid deliv-ery is delayed and disaster recovery is slowed down. This chapter examines the state of the art of port preparedness in research and practice, identifies gaps and suggests the Mission Dependency Index as a tool to address them.

Schlüsselwörter
Seaport; Airport; Resiliency; Disaster; Preparedness



Publikationstyp
Forschungsartikel (Buchbeitrag)

Begutachtet
Ja

Publikationsstatus
Veröffentlicht

Jahr
2015

Buchtitel
Humanitarian Logistics and Sustainability

Herausgeber
Klumpp Matthias, De Leeuw Sander, Regattieri Alberto, De Souza Robert

Seiten
87-112

Reihe
Lecture Notes in Logistics

Verlag
Springer

Sprache
Englisch

ISBN
978-3-319-15455-8