- Assesses the principal challenges faced by humanitarian logistics practitioners and offers suggestions for best practice when supporting natural disasters and complex emergencies
- New to this edition: contains new chapters on providing support for complex emergencies, waste management and reverse logistics, the application of value stream analysis and the potential of new technologies
- Provides international perspectives through a series of multi-contributed essays written by practitioners and academics, including abstracts and references
- Gives particular focus to pre-disaster preparation, rather than post-disaster assistance