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material convergence: a standalone construct

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Humanitarian logistics

the flow of donated supplies into a disaster area, much of it unrequested or low priority, that congests logistics and hampers relief.

In humanitarian logistics, material convergence refers to the flow of donated supplies into a disaster area, much of it unrequested or low priority, that congests logistics and hampers relief. This meaning comes from Holguín-Veras (2014) in Natural Hazards Review.[1]

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convergence4 fields · 4 citationsjingle · one word, four constructs flow6 names · 12 citationsjangle · five names, one experience, partly humanitarian logistics1 fields · 1 citationsanchor · a standalone construct

References

Holguín-Veras, J., Jaller, M., Van Wassenhove, L. N., Pérez, N., & Wachtendorf, T. (2014). Material Convergence: Important and Understudied Disaster Phenomenon. Natural Hazards Review, 15(1), 1-12. https://doi.org/10.1061/(asce)nh.1527-6996.0000113

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