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Enhancing Sustainability in Managing Inventory Prepositioning Networks for Disaster Relief Through a Simulation Game

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Humanitarian Logistics and Sustainability

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Sustainability questions are often connected to preparedness in a logistics, storage and also qualification and organizational dimension. These concepts are addressed in this chapter, offering a simulation game concept as a method of choice for enhancing preparedness and therefore sustainability in humanitarian supply chains.

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  1. Department of Information, Logistics and Innovation, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, VU University Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    Julian Harke & Sander de Leeuw

  2. Nottingham Business School, Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham, UK

    Sander de Leeuw

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  1. Institute for Logistics and Service Management, FOM University of Applied Sciences Essen, Essen, Germany

    Matthias Klumpp

  2. Nottingham Business School, AmsterdamVU, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Amsterdam, The Netherlands & Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham, United Kingdom

    Sander de Leeuw

  3. Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy

    Alberto Regattieri

  4. The Logistics Institute Asia Pacific, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore

    Robert de Souza

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Harke, J., de Leeuw, S. (2015). Enhancing Sustainability in Managing Inventory Prepositioning Networks for Disaster Relief Through a Simulation Game. In: Klumpp, M., de Leeuw, S., Regattieri, A., de Souza, R. (eds) Humanitarian Logistics and Sustainability. Lecture Notes in Logistics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-15455-8_12

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