Decentralized humanitarian aid deployment: reimagining the delivery of aid

Purpose – Current centralized humanitarian aid deployment practices may encourage urbanization thereby weakening short- and long-term resiliency of lower-income countries receiving aid. The purpose of this paper is first, to explore these shortcomings within the peer-reviewed literature and, second,...

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Main Authors: Erik Xavier Wood, Tim Frazier
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Emerald Publishing 2020-02-01
Series:Journal of Humanitarian Logistics and Supply Chain Management
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Online Access:https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/JHLSCM-05-2019-0037/full/pdf