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Green Logistics: Improving The Environmental Sustainability Of Logistics: 2 2nd Edition
Author(s): Alan Mckinnon (Author)
- Publisher: Kogan Page
- Publication Date: 3 Dec. 2012
- Edition: 2nd
- Language: English
- Print length: 392 pages
- ISBN-10: 9780749466251
- ISBN-13: 9780749466251
Book Description
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.
Editorial Reviews
Review
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
About the Author
Alan McKinnon is Professor of Logistics at Kühne Logistics University, Hamburg. He has been researching and teaching freight transport and logistics for almost forty years and has published extensively in journals and books. He was a member of the European Commission’s High Level Group on Logistics, Chairman of the World Economic Forum’s Logistics and Supply Chain Industry Council and a lead author of the transport chapter of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s fifth assessment report. He has spent many years researching the links between logistics and climate change and been an adviser to governments, international organizations and companies on this topic.
Michael Browne was appointed professor at the University of Gothenburg in 2015. His main research focus is on urban logistics and he provides academic leadership in the Urban Freight Platform, a University of Gothenburg and Chalmers initiative supported by the Volvo Research and Education Foundations (VREF). He is also a member of the VREF Center of Excellence for Sustainable Urban Freight Systems (CoE-SUFS) led by Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. He is committed to engaging practitioners and policymakers with the research community on all aspects of logistics impacting on future urban goods transport. Before his appointment in Gothenburg he was at the University of Westminster in London for 25 years and he continues to chair the Central London Freight Quality Partnership. He is a visiting professor at the University Paris II (Panthe´on-Assas) and the University of Southampton.
Anthony Whiteing is a Senior Lecturer in the Institute for Transport Studies at the University of Leeds. His main areas of expertise are in freight transport economics, distribution, logistics and supply chain management. An academic with some 30 years experience, he has been involved in a wide range of UK and European research projects primarily in the field of freight transport, and is the Principal Investigator on the ‘Green Logistics’ research project.
