Improving Postdisaster Humanitarian Logistics: Three Key Lessons from Catastrophic Events

A featured article in the May-June 2013 TR News present three practical lessons gleaned from fieldwork after the Port-au-Prince, Haiti, earthquake and the Tohoku, Japan, tsunami: the strategic differences between disasters and catastrophes, the need to control the spontaneous flow of supplies, and the benefits of integrating the civic society into the response and recovery.