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Chapter 9

Urban Transport and

Logistics in Cases of

Natural Disasters

Sideney A. Schreiner, Jr.

9.1 INTRODUCTION

Dening disasters is not a simple task. Leaning (2008) proposes a broad

concept that disasters are complex phenomena that create extensive

consequences for human populations. According to the same author,

there is, however, a general agreement on the characteristics that make

an event a disaster: A disaster is an event that imposes severe and intense

stress on a community that cannot be dealt with through deployment

of the ordinary resources of that community. Disasters are events that

require outside help. Time is also considered ...