Green Logistics: Improving the Environmental Sustainability of Logistics

by Alan McKinnon (Editor), Michael Browne (Editor), Anthony Whiteing (Editor), Maja Piecyk (Editor)

Overview

As concern for the environment rises, companies are taking more account of the external costs of logistics-specifically those costs associated with climate change, air pollution, noise, vibration, and accidents.  With contributions written by leading international logistics academics, Green Logistics examines ways of reducing these factors and achieving a more sustainable balance between economic, environmental, and social objectives.
 
This new edition introduces a new co-editor and contributors, as well as international case studies, for a more global perspective.  For the first time, the book will include downloadable supporting materials, technical information, and guidelines for teachers/lecturers. The editors have added new material on e-business, e-logistics, and the environment along with new chapters on green performance and environmental reporting, nature-inspired network design for distributed logistics, green logistics developments in different parts of the world (including North America, Latin America, South East Asia) and future scenarios for green logistics.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780749471859
Publisher:	Kogan Page, Ltd.
Publication date:	02/24/2015
Edition description:	Third Edition
Pages:	448
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.10(h) x 1.10(d)

About the Author

Alan McKinnon is Head of Logistics and Dean of Programs at Kühne Logistics University, Germany.

Michael Browne is Professor of Logistics at the University of Westminster, UK.

Anthony Whiteing teaches at the Institute for Transport Studies at the University of Leeds, UK.

Maja Piecyk teaches Logistics at Heriot-Watt University, UK.

Table of Contents

* Section - ONE: Assessing the environmental effects of logistics; ** Chapter - 01: Environmental sustainability: A new priority for logistics managers – Alan McKinnon; ** Chapter - 02: Assessing the external impacts of freight transport – Maja Piecyk, Sharon Cullinane and Julia Edwards; ** Chapter - 03: Carbon auditing of companies, supply chains and products – Maja Piecyk; ** Chapter - 04: Evaluating and internalizing the environmental costs of logistics – Maja Piecyk, Alan McKinnon and Julian Allen; * Section - TWO: Strategic perspective; ** Chapter - 05: Green logistics, sustainable development and corporate social responsibility – Maja Piecyk and Maria Björklund; ** Chapter - 06: Restructuring road freight networks within supply chains – Irina Harris, Vasco Sanchez-Rodrigues, Mohamed Naim and Christine Mumford; ** Chapter - 07: Transferring freight to ‘greener’ transport modes – Allan Woodburn and Anthony Whiteing; ** Chapter - 08: Development of greener vehicles, aircraft and ships – Alan McKinnon, Julian Allen and Allan Woodburn; ** Chapter - 09: Reducing the environmental impact of warehousing – Peter Baker and Clive Marchant; * Section - THREE: Operational perspective; ** Chapter - 10: Optimizing the routeing of vehicles – Richard Eglese and Daniel Black; ** Chapter - 11: Opportunities for improving vehicle utilization – Alan McKinnon; ** Chapter - 12: Increasing fuel efficiency in the road freight sector – Alan McKinnon; ** Chapter - 13: Alternative fuels and freight vehicles: Status, costs and benefits, and growth – Jacques Leonardi, Sharon Cullinane and Julia Edwards; * Section - FOUR: Key issues; ** Chapter - 14: Sustainability strategies for city logistics – Julian Allen, Michael Browne and José Holguín-Veras; ** Chapter - 15: E-business, e-logistics and the environment – Alan McKinnon, Yingli Wang, Andrew Potter and Julia Edwards; ** Chapter - 16: Reverse logistics for the management of waste – Tom Cherrett, Sarah Maynard, Fraser McLeod and Adrian Hickford; ** Chapter - 17: The food miles debate: Is shorter better? – Tara Garnett; * Section - FIVE: Implications for public policy and the future of supply chains; ** Chapter - 18: The role of government in promoting green logistics – Alan McKinnon

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

"…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

Editorial Reviews

"The 3rd edition of Green Logistics, edited and written by leading academics in the field of logistics, includes a number of new contributors and new case studies. The contributors look at the impact of logistics on the environment and its effect on priorities for logistics professionals and organisations. Ranging from operational to strategic perspectives on green logistics, the authors consider its implications for public policies and the future of supply chains."

Dorothea Carvalho

"For company managers and policy makers around the world, McKinnon... et al. compile 17 chapters that examine the environmental consequences of the logistics relating to the transport, storage, and handling of products as they move from source to sale or consumption and how to deal with them effectively."

Inc. Book News

"By its nature, cargo transport almost universally has a negative impact on the environment, and contributes to problems including climate change, air and noise pollution, and traffic accidents. This book provides insight into these types of environmental impacts, and what steps companies can take to negate, lessen, or avoid them."

Inbound Logistics - Jason McDowell

"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

[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 Shelf

"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."

California Bookwatch

"The issues are topical and important to company managers and world public policy makers and it aims to provide a broad overview of the technical, managerial, economic and policy aspects of green logistics. [...] The publication includes extensive examples of companies 'greening' their logistics and of governments intensifying efforts to reduce the environmental damage done by freight movement."

Supply Management

"By its nature, cargo transport almost universally has a negative impact on the environment, and contributes to problems including climate change, air and noise pollution, and traffic accidents. This book provides insight into these types of environmental impacts, and what steps companies can take to negate, lessen, or avoid them."

Inbound Logistics

"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."

Global Site Plans - Dan Malo

"…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

From the Publisher

[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.”

Library Bookwatch: Environmental Shelf