Download or read book Will a Twenty first Century Logistics Management System Improve Federal Emergency Management Agency Capability to Deliver Supplies to Critical Areas During Future Catastrophic Disaster Relief Operations written by Glenda A. Gill and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The United States Homeland Security Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) must be prepared at all times to supplement state and local emergency personnel, or to provide logistics support during disaster relief operations. A significant number of people criticized FEMA slow response to Hurricane Katrina, one of the worst natural disasters in U.S. history. Based on lessons learned, Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff stated in his testimony to the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs on 15 February 2006, that FEMA ability to get supplies to the needed areas in a timely manner was limited because its logistics systems were not adequate for an enormous catastrophic disaster. Secretary Chertoff also stated the first step to improving FEMA capability was to work with other federal agencies and private businesses to create a twenty-first century logistics management system. According to the Logistics Management Support Annex of the Federal Response Plan, dated January 2003, managing logistics is a process of planning, preparing, implementing, and evaluating all logistics functions in support of an activity or operation. This thesis will define a twenty-first century logistics management system, examine FEMA logistics management system during Hurricane Katrina, and determine what changes must occur to strengthen it. Finally, recommendations will be made on how FEMA can provide quality logistics support for future catastrophic disaster relief operations.
Download or read book Using Social and Information Technologies for Disaster and Crisis Management written by Jennex, Murray E. and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2013-01-31 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using Social and Information Technologies for Disaster and Crisis Management highlights examples of disaster situations in recent years in which social and information technologies were useful in distributing and receiving information updates. This comprehensive collection brings together research for practitioners and researchers interested in the uses of information technology in crisis management.
Download or read book Emergency Logistics Management written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Homeland Security. Subcommittee on Emergency Communications, Preparedness and Response and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Disasters and the Department of Homeland Security written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Strengthening Post Hurricane Supply Chain Resilience written by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2020-04-02 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Resilient supply chains are crucial to maintaining the consistent delivery of goods and services to the American people. The modern economy has made supply chains more interconnected than ever, while also expanding both their range and fragility. In the third quarter of 2017, Hurricanes Harvey, Irma and Maria revealed some significant vulnerabilities in the national and regional supply chains of Texas, Florida, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and Puerto Rico. The broad impacts and quick succession of these three hurricanes also shed light on the effectiveness of the nation's disaster logistics efforts during response through recovery. Drawing on lessons learned during the 2017 hurricanes, this report explores future strategies to improve supply chain management in disaster situations. This report makes recommendations to strengthen the roles of continuity planning, partnerships between civic leaders with small businesses, and infrastructure investment to ensure that essential supply chains will remain operational in the next major disaster. Focusing on the supply chains food, fuel, water, pharmaceutical, and medical supplies, the recommendations of this report will assist the Federal Emergency Management Agency as well as state and local officials, private sector decision makers, civic leaders, and others who can help ensure that supply chains remain robust and resilient in the face of natural disasters.
Download or read book Hurricane Katrina the Homeland Security Department s preparation and response hearing written by and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Federal Response to Hurricane Katrina written by and published by Government Printing Office. This book was released on 2006 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The objective of this report is to identify and establish a roadmap on how to do that, and lay the groundwork for transforming how this Nation- from every level of government to the private sector to individual citizens and communities - pursues a real and lasting vision of preparedness. To get there will require significant change to the status quo, to include adjustments to policy, structure, and mindset"--P. 2.
Download or read book Humanitarian Logistics written by R. Tomasini and published by Springer. This book was released on 2009-02-19 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Imagine planning an event like the Olympics. Now imagine planning the same event but not knowing when or where it will take place, or how many will attend. This is what humanitarian logisticians are up against. Oversights result in serious consequences for the victims of disasters. So they have to get it right, fast.
Download or read book FEMA written by and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 6 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Supply Chain Management in Disaster Response written by Ali Ebadollahzadeh Haghani and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Dull Disasters written by Daniel Jonathan Clarke and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY 3.0 IGO licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. Dull Disasters? shows how countries and their partners can better prepare for natural disasters such as typhoons, earthquakes, floods, and drought. By harnessing lessons from finance, political science, economics, psychology, and the naturalsciences, it is possible for governments, civil society, private firms, and international organizations to work together to achieve better preparedness, thereby reducing the risks to people and economies and enablingquicker recoveries. In this way, responses to disasters become less emotional, less political, less headline-grabbing, and more business as usual and effective.
Download or read book A Failure of Initiative written by United States. Congress. House. Select Bipartisan Committee to Investigate the Preparation for and Response to Hurricane Katrina and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Logistics in Support of Disaster Relief written by James H. Henderson and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2007 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book was written in response to questions that I get from various people of many different denominations. Many people today claim to be too busy to do any serious studying of scripture. My response is we have to, at some point, make time. The collection of essays in this book, hopefully, will shed some light, and answer some of your questions. I was literally stunned by some of the beliefs I was hearing from different christians I had the opportunity to hold discussions with. As Paul told Timothy, and others, it is absolutely imperative that we safeguard the gospel from corruption. Is your Church safeguarding the Gospel?
Download or read book Federal Emergency Management Agency written by and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Emergency Logistics Management written by United States House of Representatives and published by . This book was released on 2019-09-03 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Emergency logistics management: transforming the delivery of disaster relief for the 21st century: hearing before the Subcommittee on Emergency Communications, Preparedness, and Response of the Committee on Homeland Security, House of Representatives, One Hundred Eleventh Congress, second session, September 29, 2010.
Download or read book Stochastic Modeling to Allocate and Assess Disaster Response Capacity in Logistics Networks written by Lauren A. Seelbach and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When a disaster occurs in the United States, individuals in the impacted areas look to the local, state and federal government agencies to provide aid in the form of food, water, shelter, and other essential commodities. The responding agencies have the task of preparing their logistics networks in advance of a disaster to enable them to meet the demand for these essential commodities shortly after an event occurs. This thesis uses stochastic modeling and related metrics to answer three central questions that inform the development of a framework for applying these metrics for evaluating the disaster response capacity of a logistics network. The thesis answers the questions of (1) where should inventory be placed, considering both normal, steady-state allocation of inventory as well as allocation of inventory in advance of a notice event such as a hurricane, (2) how does private sector involvement change the response capacity of a logistics network, and (3) what is the impact of reduced demand for critical commodities on the logistics network's ability to respond? Two case studies are conducted on the logistics networks of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and the Florida Division of Emergency Management (FDEM). Results from these case studies indicate that applying stochastic modeling and the associated metrics to inform the allocation of critical commodities in a logistics network demonstrate measurable benefits in terms of fraction of overall demand met, time to serve a disaster affected population, and related metrics. For prepositioning decisions in FDEM's logistics network the benefits were particularly convincing. By locating stock closer to the areas predicted to suffer the greatest losses, FDEM is able to decrease the time per unit served of two critical commodities by 10-15%. For FEMA's logistics network, results indicate that restructuring the terms of contract stock has the potential to increase fraction of overall demand served by 14% within 24 hours after a disaster and 16% within 36 hours after a disaster.
Download or read book Emergency Logistics Management written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Homeland Security. Subcommittee on Emergency Communications, Preparedness and Response and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
