Green logistics

Author: Wang Changqiong
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Publish Date: 2004-09-01
Features: This book can serve as a reference for logistics management researchers, corporate logistics supervisors, and government departments studying green logistics, and is also suitable as a textbook for logistics majors in higher education institutions.
This book is guided by the concept of sustainable development, integrating green principles into the management and decision-making of logistics systems. It systematically discusses the basic theories, methods, and strategies of green logistics. It elaborates on the concept, characteristics, and current development status of green logistics; analyzes green logistics strategies based on the idea of sustainable development; examines the disturbances of logistics systems to the natural environment and the constraints of environmental issues on logistics development; discusses the systematic operational models of green logistics; and elaborates on the basic methods of green logistics from aspects such as the greening of packaging and transportation, reverse logistics in supply chains, and the greening of urban logistics. It also studies the indicator systems for evaluating the sustainable development of the logistics industry and the greenness of logistics systems. Finally, it explores institutional innovations in the development of green logistics. This book is highly systematic, novel, and unique, and includes numerous case studies of successful international experiences.