Green Logistics: Improving The Environmental Sustainability Of Logistics - Couverture souple

Mckinnon, Alan

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0749466251 ISBN 13 : 9780749466251

Editeur : Kogan Page, 2012

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Revue de presse :

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

Présentation de l'éditeur :

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. Written by a leading team of logistics academics, the book examines ways of reducing these externalities and 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 transport; reverse logistics for the management of waste. The new edition is completely updated throughout with new methodologies and case studies to illustrate the impact of green logistics in practice.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Kogan Page
• Date d'édition: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0749466251
• ISBN 13: 9780749466251
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 2
• Nombre de pages: 392