Green Logistics: Improving The Environmental Sustainability Of Logistics: 2 - Brossura

Mckinnon, Alan

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ISBN 10: 0749466251 ISBN 13: 9780749466251

Casa editrice: Kogan Page, 2012

Riassunto

As concern for the environment rises, companies must take more account of the external costs of logistics associated mainly with climate change, air pollution, noise, vibration and accidents. Green Logistics analyzes the environmental consequences of logistics and how to deal with them. Speaking to company managers and policy makers around the world, McKinnon and his co-editors compile 17 contributions from leading experts that examine the environmental consequences of the logistics relating to the transportation, storage, and handling of products as they move from source to sale. The focus is achieving a more sustainable balance between economic, environmental, and social objectives. It examines key areas in this important subject including:

-carbon auditing of supply chains
-transferring freight to greener transport modes
-reducing the environmental impact of warehousing
-improving fuel efficiency in freight transportation
-making city logistics more environmentally sustainable
-reverse logistics for the management of waste
-the role of the government in promoting sustainable logistics

The second edition adds new case studies and has been fully updated with new content on freight transportation, warehousing, vehicle utilization and the impact of ecommerce.

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Recensione:

Remains a seminally important contribution to academic library Environmental Studies reference collections and supplemental reading lists. ...Touching upon such seminal issues as carbon auditing of supply chains, transferring freight to greener transport modes, reducing the environmental impact of warehousing, improving fuel efficiency in freight transport, making city logistics more environmentally sustainable, reverse logistics for the management of waste, and the role of government in promoting sustainable logistics, Green Logistics; should be considered mandatory reading by anyone with governmental authorities, corporate managers having a responsibility for these issues, as well as environmental activists concerned with the impact of new technologies and public policies upon the environmental health of their communities and the world at large. --Midwest Book Review, Library Bookwatch: Environmental Studies Shelf

Seventeen papers analyze the environmental consequences of logistics and how to deal with them effectively, by... achieving a more sustainable balance between economic, environmental, and social objectives. --Journal of Economic Literature

A fine recommendation for college-level business collections strong in product coordination and movement, from supply chains to delivery. --Midwest Book Review

Descrizione del libro:

The first and most up-to-date book to focus on the environmental aspects of logistics

Based on the research of a team of leading academics in the area

Endorsed by the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport, with over 20,000 members inthe UK alone

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Kogan Page
• Data di pubblicazione: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0749466251
• ISBN 13: 9780749466251
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 2
• Numero di pagine: 392