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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
• making city logistics more environmentally sustainable
• reverse logistics for the management of waste
• the role of government in promoting sustainable logistics
The second edition has been substantially updated with reference to recent research findings, new technologies and changes in public policy.
Contents:
PART ONE- Assessing the environmental effects of logistics
Chapter 1: Environmental sustainability: a new priority for logistics managers • Alan McKinnon • Introduction • A brief history of green logistics research • Green logistics: rhetoric and reality • Future scenarios • A model for green logistics research • Outline of the book • Chapter 2: Assessing the external impacts of freight transport • Maja Piecyk, Sharon Cullinane and Julia Edwards • Introduction • External impacts • Environmental standards • Measuring the environmental impact of freight transport • Chapter 3: Carbon auditing of companies, supply chains and products • Maja Piecyk • Introduction • Guidelines for carbon footprinting • The carbon footprinting process • Success factors in carbon footprinting • Case study: carbon auditing of road freight transport operations in the UK • Conclusions • Chapter 4: Evaluating and internalizing the environmental costs of logistics • Maja Piecyh, Alan McKinnon and Julian Allen • Introduction • Arguments for and against the internalization of environmental costs • Monetary valuation of environmental costs • Internalization of the external costs imposed by road freight vehicles in the UK • Conclusions
PART TWO- Strategic perspective
Chapter 5: Restructuring road freight networks within supply chains • Irina Harris, Vasco Sanchez- Rodrigues, Mohamed Naim and • Christine Mumford • Introduction • Traditional network design • Green network design • Uncertainty in transport and supply chains • Uncertainty mitigation approaches in road freight transport networks • Gaps in our understanding and priorities for research • Consequences and conclusions • Chapter 6: Transferring freight to ‘greener’ transport modes • Allan Woodburn and Anthony Whiteing • Background • Characteristics of the main freight transport modes • Environmental impacts of the main freight transport modes • Case study: container train load factors • The policy framework • Examples of measures aimed at achieving modal shift for environmental benefit • Rail and water industries • Conclusions • Chapter 7: Development of greener vehicles, aircraft and ships • Alan McKinnon, Julian Allen
and Allan Woodburn • Introduction • Road freight • Rail freight operations • Air freight • Shipping • Conclusions • Chapter 8: Reducing the environmental impact of warehousing • Clive Marchant and Peter Baker • Introduction • Scale of the environmental impact • Increasing resource intensity • Framework for assessing the environmental impact of warehouses • Ways of reducing the environmental impact • Conclusion
PART THREE- Operational perspective
Chapter 9: Opportunities for improving vehicle utilization • Alan McKinnon and Julia Edwards • Introduction • Measuring vehicle utilization • Factors affecting the utilization of truck capacity • Conclusion • Chapter 10: Optimizing the routeing of vehicles • Richard Eglese and Daniel Black • Introduction • Vehicle routeing problems • Types of problem • Environmental impact • Conclusions • Chapter 11: Increasing fuel efficiency in the road freight sector • Alan McKinnon • Introduction • Fuel efficiency of new trucks • Vehicle design: aerodynamic profiling • Reducing the vehicle tare weight • Vehicle purchase decision • Vehicle maintenance • Increasing the fuel efficiency of trucking operations • Benchmarking the fuel efficiency of trucks • More fuel-efficient driving • Fleet management • Conclusions • Chapter 12: Reverse logistics for the management of waste • Tom Cherrett, Sarah Maynard, Fraser McLeod and Adrian Hickford • Introduction • Waste management in the context of reverse logistics • The impact of waste treatment legislation • Reuse, refurbishment markets and take-back schemes • Managing waste as part of a sustainable reverse process • Conclusions
PART FOUR- Key issues
Chapter 13: The food miles debate: is shorter better? • Tara Garnett • Introduction • Transport and GHGs: is further worse? • Transport, the second-order impacts and the implications for GHGs • Local versus global and the self-sufficiency question • Chapter 14: Sustainability strategies for city logistics • Julian Allen and Michael Browne • Introduction • Urban freight research and policy making • Efficiency problems in urban freight transport • Urban freight transport initiatives • Urban consolidation centres • Joint working between the public and private sectors • Environmental zones • Conclusions • Chapter 15: Benefits and costs of switching to alternative fuels • Jacques Leonardi, Sharon Cullinane and Julia Edwards • Introduction • Market developments of alternative fuels • Current use of alternative fuels in the freight industry • The future • Chapter 16: E-business, e-Iogistics and the environment • Julia Edwards, Yingli Wang, Andrew Potter and Sharon Cullinane • Introduction • Business-to-business (B2B) • Business-to-consumer (B2C) • Restructuring of the supply chain • The environmental impact of e-commerce • Case study: Online books supply chain • The future
PART FIVE- Public policy perspective
Chapter 17: The role of government in promoting green logistics • Alan McKinnon • Introduction • Objectives of public policy on sustainable logistics • Policy measures • Reducing freight transport intensity • Shifting freight to greener transport modes • Improving vehicle utilization • Increasing energy efficiency • Cutting emissions relative to energy use • Government-sponsored advisory and accreditation programmes • ConclusionISBN - 9780749466251
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Pages : 392
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