Environmental Engineering Reference
In-Depth Information
Chapter 20
Green Logistics and Supply
Chain Management
Darren Prokop
University of Alaska Anchorage, USA
ABSTRACT
Logistics and supply chain management are an integral part of business activity today. They are crucial
drivers of globalization as well. As such, these activities are responsible for a large share of greenhouse
gas emissions. In fact, transportation in the United States is the business sector which contributes the
most human-generated greenhouse gas emissions. This chapter will discuss the role of logistics and
supply chain management in the generation of such pollutants and examine methods to mitigate this
byproduct of modern business activity. It will be shown that a series of trade-offs exist which are complex
in nature and require careful consideration when confronting environmental concerns.
INTRODUCTION
goals and environmental friendliness. This chapter
will discuss how to identify and deal with these
trade-offs. Areas for future research will also be
discussed.
This chapter will lay out the nature of Green ac-
tivities appropriate to logistics and supply chain
management. After defining and differentiating
between logistics and supply chain management,
transportation will be singled out as a logistical
activity crucial to environmental friendliness.
Green initiatives will be discussed in the context
of how transportation is managed across complex
supply chains. There are many trade-offs involved
in the artful management of traditional business
WHAT IS LOGISTICS AND SUPPLY
CHAIN MANAGEMENT?
Logistics is the art and science of dealing with
time, space and location. Logistics deals with the
flow of inputs, outputs (tangible and intangible),
people, information, and financial capital along a
supply chain. Logistics adds value from primary
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