**5. Conclusion**

Disaster relief supplies, including consumable products and heavy equipment, play a vital role in natural disaster rescue and relief. To prepare sufficient relief supplies in terms of the availability in quality and quantity is an inevitable duty for all responsible government. DRS management should be initiated and supported by the government, yet the related cost issues are usually neglected. Due to the highly uncertain locations and timing of disaster events, DRS management is underprofessional. Therefore, these supplies are usually well prepositioned but without

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proper consumption, which may cause a huge waste in practice both economically and environmentally. **Figure 1** presents our green view on the management of DRS. To bring the reverse logistics strategies in conventional business practice into the disaster relief supply management not only benefits in cost reduction and environmental protection, but also improve the daily management of the DRS. The DRS reverse logistics, comparing with the conventional business reverse logistics, has many implementation advantages. The most critical point is the social trust and efficient marketing network provided by government coordination and international cooperation. Secondly, the stable quality level of these supplies and relatively integrated inventories bring the economies of scale in operations. After all, DRS reverse logistics would be expected to greatly energize the disaster rescue and relief

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activities.

**Figure 1.**

*A "green" view on DRS management.*

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**Figure 1.** *A "green" view on DRS management.*

proper consumption, which may cause a huge waste in practice both economically and environmentally. **Figure 1** presents our green view on the management of DRS.

To bring the reverse logistics strategies in conventional business practice into the disaster relief supply management not only benefits in cost reduction and environmental protection, but also improve the daily management of the DRS. The DRS reverse logistics, comparing with the conventional business reverse logistics, has many implementation advantages. The most critical point is the social trust and efficient marketing network provided by government coordination and international cooperation. Secondly, the stable quality level of these supplies and relatively integrated inventories bring the economies of scale in operations. After all, DRS reverse logistics would be expected to greatly energize the disaster rescue and relief activities.
