Issues in disaster relief logistics
Cambridge University Press eBooksPublished 23 June 2008
Nezih Altay
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Abstract
[T]he most deadly killer in any humanitarian emergency is not dehydration, measles, malnutrition or the weather, it is bad management …(John Telford, former senior emergency preparedness and response officer, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees)
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