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

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This book provides a first-of-its-kind approach for using blockchain to enhance resilience in disaster supply chain and logistics management, especially when dealing with dynamic communication, relief operations, prioritization, coordination, and distribution of scarce resources ― these are elements of volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity (VUCA) describing a dynamic environment that now form the "new norm" for many leaders. Blockchain-Enabled Resilience: An Integrated Approach for Disaster Supply Chain and Logistics Management analyzes the application of blockchain technology used to enable resilience in a disaster supply chain network. It discusses IoT and DVFS algorithms for developing a network-based simulation and presents advancements in disaster supply chain strategies using smart contacts for collaborations. The book covers how success is based on collaboration, coordination, sovereignty, and equality in distributing resources and offers a theoretical analysis that reveals that enhancing resilience can improve collaboration and communication and can result in more time-efficient processing for disaster supply management. The book offers 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. Practical guidance is provided for managers interested in implementation. A robust research agenda is also provided for those interested in expanding present research. Cover Endorsements Half Title Title Copyright Dedication Contents Foreword Preface Acknowledgment About the Authors 1 Supply Chain Management in the Age of Complexity 1.1 Supply Chain Management 1.1.1 Dimensions of Supply Chain Management 1.1.2 Characteristics of Supply Chain Management 1.2 System Resilience 1.2.1 System Risk 1.2.2 System Vulnerability 1.2.3 System Perception 1.2.4 System Fragility 1.2.5 Concatenation for System Resilience 1.3 Blockchain Technology 1.3.1 Foundations of Blockchain Technology 1.3.2 Instantiations of Blockchain Technology 1.3.3 Benefits of Blockchain Technology 1.3.4 Towards Blockchain-Enabled Resilience Conclusions References 2 Facets of Disaster Management 2.1 Dynamics of Disaster Management 2.2 Disaster Aid Management 2.2.1 Hazards 2.2.2 Risk Management 2.2.3 Disaster 2.2.4 Disaster Management 2.3 Complexity in Disaster Management 2.3.1 Communication in Disaster Management 2.3.2 Disaster Governance 2.3.3 Supply Chain 2.4 Disaster Supply Chain 2.4.1 Disaster Supply Communication and Trust 2.4.2 Emergency Logistics 2.4.3 Humanitarian Logistics Conclusions References 3 Developments in Disaster Management 3.1 Disaster Management Theories 3.2 Disaster Supply Chain Theories 3.3 Modeling and Simulation 3.4 Ubiquitous Technologies 3.4.1 Cloud Computing 3.4.2 Blockchain Technology 3.4.3 Smart Contracts 3.4.4 IoT: Internet of Things and 6G 3.5 Dynamic Voltage Frequency Scaling (DVFS) Algorithm 3.5.1 Systematic Literature Review 3.5.2 Results of Systematic Literature Review Conclusions References 4 Towards Blockchain Models in Disaster Management 4.1 Research Design 4.2 A Model for the Disaster Supply Chain 4.3 Blockchain-Enabled Prototyping 4.4 ABM: Agent-Based Modeling Conclusions References 5 Results of Blockchain-Enabled Simulation 5.1 Model Parameters 5.2 Description of the Model 5.3 Design of the Simulation Study 5.4 Simulative Analysis 5.4.1 System Delays 5.4.2 Energy Consumption 5.4.3 System Errors 5.4.4 Number of Actions 5.4.5 Successful Migrations 5.4.6 System Throughput Conclusions References 6 Implications of the Blockchain-Enabled Model 6.1 Verification and Validation 6.2 Embedding Research in Disaster Management Challenges 6.3 Model Implications 6.4 Research Limitations Conclusions References 7 A Research Agenda in Blockchain-Enabled Resilience 7.1 A Corollary Lesson 7.2 Research Synopsis 7.2.1 Methodology 7.2.2 Epistemology 7.2.3 Ontology 7.2.4 Nature of Human Beings 7.3 Research Agenda Conclusions References Glossary of Terms Reference Index