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  Logistics Support for Disaster Management

  By Razia Shareef, Arshad Ali, Saqib Hameed

  Abstract: Abstract Pakistan is located in a volatile disaster prone region. Its diverse landscape is susceptible to wide-range of hazards from droughts to floods and earthquakes to cyclones. Recently, Pakistan has suffered almost every year from floods. Disaster management had remained limited to the provision of relief rather than long-term management of risk. 2005 earthquake was one of the worst disasters of Pakistan. It exposed inefficiency of the government machinery in …

  Published in Journal of Offshore Structure and Technology · Vol. 3, Issue 2, 2016 · pp. 32–44 Read article →