Green Logistics: Improving The Environmental Sustainability Of Logistics: 2 - Tapa blanda

""Green Logistics" is a collection of academic research that discusses issues pertinent to supply chains--with heavy emphasis on those matters facing freight networks. The book covers the nuances of greening the logistics field, and demonstrates its conclusions with charts and graphs that illustrate different polls and findings. The data, while being large-in-part a collection of UK statistics, has value for any location. It must be said that "Green Logistics" is not a casual or quick read. In many ways, its subjects are very technical and the book can come across as an advanced college text (it certainly weighs as much). The book's largest use may be as a key shelf reference for a supply-chain specialist. Still, the nature of the material makes "Green Logistics" a prescient manual for every efficiency-seeking manager and cost- or eco-conscious executive."--Dan Malo "Global Site Plans " "[R]emains 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 "Praise for the previous edition: " "[A] fine recommendation for college-level business collections strong in product coordination and movement, from supply chains to delivery." --Midwest Book Review "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 "Online comments: " "This book brings together the very best in recent academic research into greening supply chains. It is an excellent guide and reference book to anyone either supporting businesses to improve their supply chains or developing policy support for green logistics." --Amazon Praise for the previous edition: ..".a fine recommendation for college-level business collections strong in product coordination and movement, from supply chains to delivery... Any college-level business collection needs this survey." - Midwest Book Review "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 Praise for the previous edition: ."..a fine recommendation for college-level business collections strong in product coordination and movement, from supply chains to delivery... Any college-level business collection needs this survey." - Midwest Book Review "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

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.