Business and the environment; ‘green’ approaches to business

These proceedings contain research presented at the 6th International Conference on Dynamics in Logistics, held in February 2018.

This short guide offers practical insights for companies or foundations who want to run their business in India in a sustainable way.

In the context of the economies of the world becoming greener, this book provides a global and interdisciplinary overview of the condition of the world's water resources and the infrastructure used to manage it.

Logistics and supply chain management is at the heart of almost every organization globally, as such, developing a well-rounded understanding of these areas has never been more important.

As the nations of the Caribbean respond to the emerging effects of climate change and prepare for those to come, tourism has the potential to either worsen or mitigate these impacts.

This illuminating new book presents a series of in-depth case studies from around the world based on numerous personal interviews with organizational leaders and focusing on their journey towards sustainability.

In this second edition, the authors present new developments in the sustainability discussion and argue that a new understanding of sustainability is needed if we are to truly serve future generations ecologically, economically, and equitably.

Sustainable Production and Logistics: Modeling and AnalysisSubject Guide: Engineering - Industrial & ManufacturingThis book presents issues faced by planners of production and distribution operations in terms of smart manufacturing and sustainability, using efficient quantitative techniques in a variety of decision-making situations.

Poor requirements management is one of the top five contributors to poor project performance.

Sustainability Beyond 2030: Trajectories and Priorities for Our Sustainable Future is an indispensable guide to understanding our planet's sustainability past, present, and future.

In a world of soaring digitization, social media, financial transactions, and production and logistics processes constantly produce massive data.

This book is a theoretically rich and empirically grounded account of UK trade union engagement with climate change over the last three decades.

Sustainability at Work is a compelling guide for anyone who seeks both a successful career and a career that makes a positive difference in society.

This book presents trends, developments, and examples of how digital disruption is currently reshaping the logistics industry.

Mastering the Supply Chain is an introduction to supply chain management.

In this timely exploration of sustainable actions, Christian Berg unpacks the complexity in understanding the barriers we face in moving towards a sustainable future, providing solution perspectives for every level, from individuals to governments and supra-national organizations offering a lucid vision of a long-term and achievable goal for sustainability.

This book focuses on futuristic approaches and designs for real-time systems and applications, as well as the fundamental concepts of including advanced techniques and tools in models of data-driven blockchain ecosystems.

The authors of this book tried to make these experiences available to those interested, considering the experience of several years of training, research, and implementation of projects in the supply chain performance evaluation field.

This book explains, for a UK business audience, the technical, scientific and economic aspects of solar photovoltaics (PV) technologies.

Lean is about building and improving stable and predictable systems and processes to deliver to customers high-quality products/services on time by engaging everyone in the organization.

El medio ambiente, entendido como tal, es un bien perteneciente a todos los habitantes del planeta, al igual que el derecho a disfrutarlo, así como el deber de protegerlo y respetarlo.

In this ground-breaking book, pre-eminent thought leader in the fields of sustainability and flourishing, John R.

This book addresses the roles played by food co-operatives in the attempt to build alternative food networks, drawing on an in-depth analysis of case studies in Turkey.

Leveraged Innovation reveals that a dramatically different approach to the supplier-client relationship is being developed by leading companies around the world.

Written for researchers and graduate students, this book explores the different processes through which corporations engage with climate change.

In a world where the implications and consequences of corporate actions and decisions are potentially far-reaching and lasting, ethical standards - their observance and their breach - must be part of the language of business conduct, whether in the context of corporate transgressions, regulatory effectiveness, terms of engagement between business and their stakeholders, or the metrics used by investors in assessing performance and risk and understanding long-term value.

While global challenges such as a future pandemics and global warming seem insurmountable, innovation and cumulative small changes can help towards managing such disruptive events.

Large Systems Change (LSC) is a field of study and action that is characterized by its focus on transformational pathways towards a participative, flourishing future through inter- and trans-disciplinary approaches that value engagement with practitioners and those aspiring for such futures.

This guide provides guidance for manufacturing facilities to build offshore containers.

This book is about fiduciary law's influence on the financial economy's environmental performance, focusing on how the law affects responsible investing and considering possible legal reforms to shift financial markets closer towards sustainability.

The role of a contracting professional begins well before the award of a contract and doesn't end until the benefits of the acquisition have been realised, long after the deliverables arrive in a box on a loading dock.

The book explains how to emerge and grow as a supply chain leader and details supply chain and procurement processes and operational activities in real-work scenarios across multiple supply chain verticals.

In the wake of the Clean Air Amendments of 1970 in the United States, sources of emissions could be held accountable for the degradation of air quality in the local environment.

Luxury products are now seen by a growing number of global consumers as an important and more widely available way of expressing personal aspirations and values.

Carbon Accounting is a vital tool in enabling organisations to measure and report on their greenhouse gas emissions.

Energy efficiency is more of a journey than a battle.

This book advances an innovative, multi-jurisdictional argument for the necessity of company law reform to reorient companies towards environmental sustainability.

This book critically examines the implementation and adoption of integrated reporting (IR) in organizations and corporations.

The UN Sustainable Development Goals, an increasing interest in Environmental, Social, and Governance factors, the climate crisis, stakeholder pressure, the lessons of corporate scandals, and the COVID-19 pandemic have triggered a massive change in how companies approach finance and accounting practices.

The central concerns of mobilities research - exploring the broader context and human aspects of movement - are fundamental to an understanding of the maritime freight transport sector.

This book sheds light on the management challenges of crisis and emergency response in an arctic environment.

Das Internet-Okosystem ist gekennzeichnet durch eine starke Dynamik und ausgepragte Evolutorik.

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This book studies the management challenges and possibilities in sustaining farmer producer organisations (FPOs).

This Encyclopaedia investigates the relation of total quality manage-ment (TQM) and just-in-time purchasing (JITP) with respect to firms performance, based on theories from operations management, organization theory, strategic management and marketing.

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