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Sustainable Logistics : Responses to a Global Challenge.
Currently the notion of 'sustainability' is used in an inflationary manner. Therefore the authors start with a definition which is stable to serve as an anchor for further research as well as for discussions among scientists, managers and politicians, ideally across different disciplines....
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Dordrecht :
Springer,
2012.
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| Colección: | Lecture notes in logistics.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Title
- Preface
- Contents
- List of Figures
- Basics
- Initial Situation and Objective
- What Does "Sustainability" Mean?
- A System-Theoretical Definition of Sustainability
- Sustainability Reference Systems
- The External Cost Problem
- On the Necessity of a Global Governance
- Sustainability as a Regulative Guiding Principle
- Factors That Will Force Us to Adjust
- Rising Energy Costs and Fuel Prices
- Increasing Bottlenecks in Traffic Infrastructure
- Mounting Public Pressure and Massive State Intervention
- References
- Strategies and Concepts to Promote Sustainability
- Can "Sustainability" Be Measured?
- Measuring Economic Performance and Prosperity
- Estimating and Assessing Environmental Damage
- Measuring Traffic Intensity and Mobility
- Technological Approaches for a More Efficient Usage of Resources and Energy
- Vehicle and Drive Train Technologies
- Logistics-Oriented Product Design
- Circular Economy
- Playing Fields of the State and of Politics
- Telematics
- Road Pricing
- Ecotax
- Fixing Demand and Consumption Quotas
- Changing the Modal Split
- Capacity Expansion Measures
- Interim Conclusion
- Models for Sustainable Logistics in Companies of Industry and Trade
- Scopes of Action in Logistics
- Transport Organization Variants
- Redesigning Logistics Processes
- Reconfiguring Logistics Networks
- "Merge-in-Transit" as a Logistical Innovation
- The Impact of Service Guidelines
- Interim Conclusion
- Adaptations in Open Transportation Networks
- Options for Packaged Goods and Parcel Service Networks
- Advanced Truckload Firms
- The Problem with Empty Runs
- Models for Cross-Company Cooperations
- Intelligent Electronic Transportation Marketplaces
- City Logistics
- Cooperation of Shippers
- Adjustments at the Strategy and Business Model Level.
- Sustainability through Simplification
- Production and Procurement Close to the Customers
- The Future of Globalization
- Interim Conclusion
- References
- Summary and Outlook
- Sustainability as a New Restriction
- "Laissez-Faire" Is Not an Option
- Economy vs. Ecology: Ways Out of a Conflict of Objectives
- Are We Facing a Looming Traffic Infarction?
- The Path Ahead
- Restoring Predictability
- The Next Steps
- Logistics
- Facing a Paradigm Shift
- References
- Glossary
- Subject Index.