Business and the environment; ‘green’ approaches to business

Providing essential guidance to thrive in a complex environment, this book showcases tools to take the leadership role in the process of building resilience in any organization in a timely, effective, and practical way for today's risks and tomorrow's challenges.

"e;On Time-In Full"e; is an important work.

Supply Chain Strategy and Financial Metrics is a step-by-step guide to balancing the triangle of service, cost and cash which is the essence of supply chain management.

This proceedings volume examines individual city transports, transport companies and entire transport systems.

Startups stehen vor der Herausforderung, mit begrenzten Ressourcen in einem dynamischen und wettbewerbsintensiven Markt zu bestehen.

The Routledge Handbook of Urban Logistics offers a state-of-the-art, comprehensive overview of the discipline of urban and city logistics.

Best Practice in Inventory Management 3E offers a simple, entirely jargon-free and yet comprehensive introduction to key aspects of inventory management.

This book presents a diverse set of decision-making methodologies to solve some of the most important decisions that most organizations face today.

This book presents a comprehensive analysis of the legal and policy frameworks for marine fisheries management and examines the efficiency of the institutions responsible for the formulation, implementation and enforcement of marine fisheries laws and policies in Bangladesh.

This book offers a concise yet comprehensive introduction to supply chain resilience, covering management, modeling and technology perspectives.

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Given the scale of the greenhouse gas emissions reductions that are seen as necessary to avert the worst effects of climate change, policy action is likely to result in a complete reshaping of the world economy.

Fierce global competition in the tourism industry is now focused on integral parts of supply chains rather than on individual firms.

***BUSINESS BOOK AWARDS - FINALIST 2021*** This timely book is a sequel to John Grant s Green Marketing Manifesto (2007) the award-winning and bestselling definitive guide to green marketing (and not greenwashing).

Global events such as the COVID-19 pandemic and war in Ukraine brought massive disruption to supply chains around the world, shining a light on the environmental impacts of such systems.

Sustainable development will not be possible without fundamental improvements in resource productivity and energy efficiency, the adaptation of material flows into natural cycles as well as a radical change in production and consumption patterns.

More and more, the shape of the IT organization is critical to business systems delivery, yet all too often this definition is approached in a haphazard fashion - often based on old theory and out-dated experiences rather than being moulded to the realities of the world in which we work.

The World Guide to Sustainable Enterprise is the first comprehensive global compendium that clearly describes the national approaches to sustainable enterprise.

This book provides a detailed look at REDD+ business case studies and best practice and highlights the future of REDD+ in providing a promising mechanism for financing forest conservation while increasing the sustainability and profitability of forward-thinking companies.

Entrepreneurs are the lifeblood of the agriculture and food sector in Africa, which is projected to exceed a trillion dollars by 2030.

This unique book combines a colourful history of Bolivian politics with some of the most advanced quantitative techniques yet developed for socio-political risk analysis.

This book is designed as a basic text for courses that are part of an interdisciplinary program in environmental studies.

Over the past decade organizations have faced relentless customer demand for better value at less cost, individual customization, greater choice, faster delivery, higher quality, exceptional service, and more recently increased environmental and social consciousness.

During the past three decades of rapid industrial growth, China has suffered from devastating environmental degradation.

Fermenting Revolution delivers an empowering message about how individuals can change the world through the simple act of having a beer.

This book presents high-quality original contributions on the fashion supply chain.

This astonishing book invites you into a conversation between a teacher, John R.

As we move further into the 21st century, the global challenges and consequences posed by climate change are becoming increasingly apparent.

This book presents state-of-the-art research and practice in optimization routing, specifically the vehicle routing problem (VRP).

This book provides a broad overview of how sustainability reporting has grown, how it is used now and where it is heading.

If we can carry in our pockets more computing power than the Apollo program needed to put a man on the moon, why can't we solve problems like climate change, famine, or poverty?

In an era marked by unprecedented technological advancements, the retail industry is at the forefront of a transformative journey.

The accelerated pace of global consumption over the past decades has meant that governments across the world are now faced with significant challenges in dealing with the dramatically increased volume of waste.

This handbook presents a timely, broad-ranging, and provocative overview of the essential nature of ecotourism.

Are your sustainability efforts making as much impact as they could be?

Corporate sustainability, now regarded as a vitally important topic on the agenda for businesses, has in recent years not only become embedded in postgraduate study, but is now also widely taught at the undergraduate level in business schools.

The EU-funded project "e;Sustainable Consumption Research Exchanges"e; (SCORE!

The book provides an overarching perspective on sustainability from a historical, practical and legal perspective.

The spotlight of global scrutiny has shone particularly brightly on corporations' adverse impacts on human rights in recent years.

This volume covers the most current theories and practices in Quality Management and Six Sigma.

This unique textbook explicitly addresses the intersection of advanced analytics and procurement.

The green transition is the way to a sustainable and fair planet, and necessary to secure supply chains, deliver predictable prices, and ensure access to raw materials despite resource scarcity through sustainable production and consumption.

This handbook is based on the premise that in order for sustainability to be sustainable, a profound psychological transformation has to take place at the individual and collective level.

This book addresses the vital importance of reshoring US manufacturing capability to ensure economic and military security and then discusses the proven methods that the United States used to gain manufacturing supremacy in the first place.

This book presents a series of studies analyzing critical factors that promote and constrain textile & clothing (T&C) production and trade in the Belt & Road (B&R) countries, and forces that drive the restructuring and transforming of global T&C supply chain and operations in the B&R context.