Logistics & Supply Chain Management, 5th Edition

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Creating a sustainable supply chain

• The triple bottom line
• Greenhouse gases and the supply chain
• Reducing the transport-intensity of supply chains
• Beyond the carbon footprint
• Reduce, reuse, recycle
• The impact of congestion

Perhaps one of the biggest issues to rise to prominence across every aspect of business and society in the opening years of the twenty-first century has been ‘sustainability’. The growing concern with the environment, in particular the possibility of climate change through global warming, has led to a focus on how human and economic activity has the potential to adversely impact the long-term sustainability of the planet.

The definition of sustainability that is most widely used originates from the United Nations ...