Civil-Military Collaboration in Humanitarian Logistics

There are more and more disasters in recent years. A large amount of rescuers gather at the disaster point every time when a disaster happens. Humanitarian logistics, whose impact is more and more important in disaster relief, is now of concern to the academic world and governments. The first part of this paper states the background and significance of army-civilian cooperation. The second part sorts and classifies the basic theory of the army and nongovernmental organizations. The third part analyzes the relationship between the army and the people, then concludes that the similarity between the army and the people is the foundation of cooperation. Complementary differentiation is the necessary condition of cooperation, and the paper puts forward the theory of logistics based on army-civilian cooperation. The fourth part analyzes the possible conflicts, and proposes a process model of army-civilian cooperation in humanitarian logistics. In conclusion, the paper puts forward the three aspects that should be carefully considered in army-civilian cooperation decision based on humanitarian logistics.

• Record URL:
  • https://doi.org/10.1061/41184(419)532
• Availability:
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• Supplemental Notes:
  • Copyright © 2011 ASCE
• Corporate Authors:

  American Society of Civil Engineers

  1801 Alexander Bell Drive
  Reston, VA  United States  20191-4400
• Authors:
  • Che, Qiang
  • Feng, Chun
  • Huang, Tianchun
• Conference:
  • Third International Conference on Transportation Engineering (ICTE)
  • Location: Chengdu , China
  • Date: 2011-7-23 to 2011-7-25
• Publication Date: 2011

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Features: Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: pp 3226-3231
• Monograph Title: ICTE 2011

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Cooperation; Disaster relief; Disasters and emergency operations; Logistics; Military organizations
• Uncontrolled Terms: Humanitarian assistance; Non-governmental organizations
• Subject Areas: Administration and Management; Security and Emergencies; Transportation (General); I10: Economics and Administration;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01449416
• Record Type: Publication
• ISBN: 9780784411841
• Files: TRIS, ASCE
• Created Date: Oct 18 2012 11:19AM