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Gain insights into the key issues faced by humanitarian logistics practitioners with suggestions for best practice from world-leading experts and academics.

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Introduction; Risky Business What Humanitarians Can Learn from Business Logisticians and Vice Versa; Impacts of Funding Systems on Humanitarian Operations; The Importance of Information Technology in Humanitarian Supply Chains Opportunities and Challenges in the HELIOS project; New Technologies; Humanitarian Logistics and the Cluster Approach Global Shifts and the US Perspective; The Increasing Importance of Services in Humanitarian Logistics; TBC; The Journey to Humanitarian Supply Network Management An African Perspective; The Challenge of Waste Management and Reverse Logistics; Skills for Humanitarian Logistics; A Practitioners Perspective; Humanitarian Logistics in Support of Complex Emergencies; The Application of Value Stream Analysis to the Humanitarian Context; So Where Next? Developments in Humanitarian Logistics

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