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TR N EW S 28 7 JU LY –A UG US T 20 13 4 Holguín-Veras is William H Hart Professor and Director, and Jaller is Research Associate, Volvo Research and Educational Foundations' Center of Excellence for Sustainable Urban Freight Systems and the Center for Infrastructure, Transportation, and the Environment, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York.
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TR N EW S 287 JULY–AUG UST 2013 5 and the Tohoku responses. These two events provide complementary lessons leading to a unified and comprehensive set of suggestions for improvement (4–6)
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TR N EW S 28 7 JU LY –A UG US T 20 13 6 to lead the civic society and to organize aid efforts. The material capacity to respond is likely to be severely compromised -- local inventories of critical supplies are usually destroyed or out of reach, and the companies that manage local supply chains for critical supplies are unable to function.
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about 5 to 15 percent of the cargo arriving at the site consists of high-priority supplies, about 25 to 35 percent are low-priority supplies, and nonpriority supplies make up a staggering 50 to 70 percent. Controlling Nonpriority Supplies The flow of nonpriority supplies is the most problematic component of material convergence.
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TR N EW S 28 7 JU LY –A UG US T 20 13 8 2 million beneficiaries. The crisis subsided two weeks later, when the United Nations created a registry of local truckers, opening access to local equipment, personnel, and know-how.
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TR N EW S 287 JULY–AUG UST 2013 9 Integrating Key Segments The experiences of Haiti and Japan underscore the benefits of integrating key segments of the civic society into disaster preparations and response procedures. In both cases, elements of the civic society stepped up to fulfill a need without any instructions or clear idea about how to proceed, without coordination with the public sector, and without practice or training.
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TR N EW S 28 7 JU LY –A UG US T 20 13 10 Enhancing Readiness Jurisdictions at risk of catastrophic events must take appropriate actions to implement the guidelines in the National Response Framework and to enhance readiness. FEMA's grants to foster planning for catastrophic events are a worthy first step (16)
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