Sustainable Logistics
Subtitle: Responses to a Global Challenge
By: by Wolf-Rüdiger Bretzke, Karim Barkawi
Contributors: Barkawi, Karim; SpringerLink (Online service)
Series: Lecture Notes in Logistics
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg; Imprint: Springer
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Berlin, Heidelberg
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 518
ISBN-13: 9783642343759
Subjects: Engineering; Production/Logistics/Supply Chain Management; Engineering Economics, Organization, Logistics, Marketing; Engineering economy; Sustainable development
Description: Currently the notion of "sustainability" is used in an inflationary manner. Therefore the authors start with a definition which is stable to serve as an anchor for further research as well as for discussions among scientists, managers and politicians, ideally across different disciplines. The character of this book is purely conceptual. The argumentation is based on comparison of new and demanding requisites with existing models (process and network architectures in the field of logistics). Formerly neglected impacts on the environment will be included. Main features of a new approach will be developed which are capable to avoid these impacts and to align logistics with the requirements of sustainability. <br>In order to make logistics sustainable large parts will have to be reinvented. The focus needs to be on decoupling transportation activities from economic growth rates.
Table of contents: title: <p>Basics; title: <b>Strategies and Concepts to Promote Sustainability; title: <b>Summary and Outlook.</b></b></p>.