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A Systemic Approach to Sustainable Humanitarian Logistics

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Humanitarian Logistics and Sustainability

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With the purpose of drawing a general outline of a systemic approach, which take into account the ecological, economic and social dimensions of sustainability and simultaneously the increasing complexity of logistics systems within disaster relief operations, the systems thinking paradigm is briefly introduced and presented in a manner that emphasizes its adequateness and applicability in Humanitarian Logistics (HL) research. The context of sustainable development in general and the Triple-Bottom-Line (TBL) perspective in particular are considered as substantial parts of the polycontextual environment of the sustainable HL-systems, which are the objects of inquiry of Sustainable Humanitarian Logistics (SHL) as a specific research field. The main principles of the suggested systemic approach are described within an analysis which includes concrete application possibilities.

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  1. University Duisburg-Essen, Keetmanstr. 3-9, 47058, Duisburg, Germany

    Aimen Remida

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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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Remida, A. (2015). A Systemic Approach to Sustainable Humanitarian Logistics. 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_2

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