Sustainable Logistics: Responses to a Global Challenge (Lecture Notes in Logistics)

by Wolf-Rudiger Bretzke and Karim Barkawi

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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.
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.
  • ISBN13 9783642448829
  • Publish Date 29 January 2015 (first published 14 December 2012)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country DE
  • Publisher Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG
  • Imprint Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K
  • Edition 2013 ed.
  • Format Paperback
  • Pages 518
  • Language English