Blockchain-Enabled Resilience: An Integrated Approach for Disaster Supply Chain and Logistics Management [Paperback]

1. Supply Chain Management in the Age of Complexity. 2. Facets of Disaster Management. 3. Developments in Disaster Management. 4. Towards Blockchain Model in Disaster Management. 5. Results of Blockchain-Enabled Simulation. 6. Implications Blockchain-Enabled Model. 7. A Research Agenda in Blockchain-Enabled Resilience. 8. Glossary of terms.

This book provides a first-of-its-kind approach for managers and policy-makers as well as researchers interested in using blockchain to enhance resilience in disaster supply chains, especially when dealing with dynamic communication, relief operations, prioritization, coordination, and distribution of scarce resources.

Polinpapilinho F. Katina currently serves as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Informatics and Engineering Systems at the University of South Carolina Upstate (Spartanburg, South Carolina, USA). He has served in various capacities at the National Centers for System of Systems Engineering (Norfolk, Virginia, USA), Old Dominion University (Norfolk, Virginia, USA), Politecnico di Milano (Milan, Italy), Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University (Daytona Beach, Florida, USA), The University of Alabama in Huntsville (Huntsville, Alabama, USA), and Syracuse University (Syracuse, New York, USA). He holds a B.S. in Engineering Technology (Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia, USA), a M.Eng. in Systems Engineering (Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia, USA), and a Ph.D. in Engineering Management and Systems Engineering (Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia, USA). He received additional training at the Politecnico di Milano (Milan, Italy) in the Energy Department in the Nuclear Division - Laboratory of Signal Analysis and Risk Analysis.

Dr. Katina focuses on teaching and research in the areas of Complex System Governance, Critical Infrastructure Systems, Decision Making and Analysis, Emerging Technologies (e.g., IoT), Energy Systel%