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Reviews:
"This book provides a wonderful roadmap to help managers, students and even scholars grasp the fundamentals of green supply and logistics management."
Joseph Sarkis, Professor and Head of Department of Management, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA
"The book offers an excellent and broad overview of sustainability. It goes far beyond freight transportation and also includes corporate social responsibility, ethics and risk issues in supply chains. The topical mini-cases relate the discussion to practice and are a great source for teaching."
Professor Stephan M Wagner, Chair of Logistics Management and Director Executive MBA at the ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Description:
Sustainable Logistics and Supply Chain Management is the essential guide to the principles and practices of sustainable logistics operations and the responsible management of the entire supply chain. It offers practitioners and students the required understanding of sustainability science as well as an understanding of sustainability as it affects the supply chain.
Examining the subject in an integrated manner and from a holistic perspective, it examines all the key areas, including: product design; procurement; cleaner production; freight transport; warehousing and storage; purchasing; supply management; reverse logistics; recycling; strategy.
Written by three leading experts on the subject, Sustainable Logistics and Supply Chain Management is a comprehensive, academic book that provides research-led applications and case studies.
Contents:
Introduction
Chapter 1: Logistics and supply chain management • The nature of logistics and supply chain management • Logistics and SCM trends affecting sustainability • Sustainable logistics and supply chains • Summary
Chapter 2: Science of sustainability • Concepts of sustainability • Species and ecosystems • Energy • Industry • Food • Population and urban growth • Water • Summary
Chapter 3: Freight transport • Impact of freight transport • Transport modes • Strategies to reduce environmental impact of freight transport • Wider aspects of sustainability in freight transport • Summary
Chapter 4: Sustainable warehousing • The environmental impact of warehouses • The roles and functions of warehouses • Warehouse location • Handling equipment • Assessing the impact • Reduction of the environmental impact • Social dimension of sustainability in warehousing • Risks and vulnerability in warehousing • Summary
Chapter 5: Product design, cleaner production and packaging • Background • Product design for environment and sustainable logistics • Regulatory frameworks • Cleaner production • Packaging for the environment • Summary
Chapter 6: Sustainable purchasing and procurement • The role of procurement in the supply chain • What is ‘green procurement’? • Drivers and barriers for sustainable procurement • Procurement frameworks • Ecolabels • Lifecycle assessment • Comparing purchasing options • Summary
Chapter 7: Reverse logistics and recycling • Background • Reverse logistics and recycling • Product recovery options • Recycling • Regulations • Summary
Chapter 8: Risk, corporate social responsibility and ethics • Background • Risk in logistics and supply chains • Corporate social responsibility • Ethical framework and codes of conduct • Global and industrial initiatives • Summary
Chapter 9: Sustainable logistics and supply chain management strategy • Concepts of corporate strategy • Theoretical motivations underlying corporate and sustainable strategy • Sustainable logistics and supply chain performance measurement • Environmental management systems • Lifecycle assessment • Assessing sustainable choices and initiatives • Summary
References • Index ISBN - 9780749468668
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Pages : 256
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