Classification of technical requirements and the means of addressing the problem of waste management in a refugee camp

Concepts in humanitarian logistics have been a field of increasing interest as well as research and publication activities in the last decade, especially triggered by the response and logistics failures of the 2004 Haiti earthquake. Since then, many things have changed, inside humanitarian organizations (NGOs) with more professional logistics management and preparedness concepts as well as within government organizations, namely the UN organizations with the OCHA coordi-nation effort in order to improve global alignment of humanitarian logistics assets and processes. Also, logistics research has contributed largely to the new profes-sional development of humanitarian logistics, i.e. by transferring and adapting concepts from business logistics to the humanitarian sector or applying many field and case studies in order to understand the specific requirements and conditions in the field better. This also led to many workshops and fairs as well as conferences where the ac-tors met, among them also the FOM ild International Workshop on Humanitarian Logistics, with the first event taking place in 2011 in Essen, summing up a status quo of the international humanitarian logistics sector. In 2012 the subsequent sec-ond workshop dealt with performance measurement and the third workshop in 2013 brought the topic of sustainability in humanitarian logistics into the head-lights, building the basis for this book. Also, further workshops will be held in September 2014 and September 2015 in Essen with support from FOM University of Applied Sciences as well as many partners and the renowned research cluster “EffizienzCluster LogistikRuhr”, the largest logistics research cluster in Europe, located in the German Ruhr area. From these research endeavors also stems the cooperation of the editors for this book, bringing together logistics researchers from the Netherlands (VU University), Italy (University of Bologna), Singapore (National University of Singapore) and Germany (FOM University of Applied Sciences).