Business and the environment; ‘green’ approaches to business

Companies that will succeed in the long-term are integrating natural and social capital into their business model now.

Focused on the logistics and transportation operations within a supply chain, this book brings together the latest models, algorithms, and optimization possibilities.

Organisations are now focused on total customer satisfaction.

There have been dramatic changes in the distribution of earnings and income in the United States during recent years.

Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is steadily moving from the margins to the mainstream across the spectrum of private companies, NGOs and the public sector.

The ways in which we design, make, transport and then discard clothes has a huge social and environmental impact.

Capitalism is fast approaching the tipping point into a new sustainable economy that will allow people and the planet to prosper.

The World Sustainable Development Outlook series has been developed to provide an overview of sustainable development, to discuss why it is important and to provoke forward thinking on the development of a more coherent approach to solving global problems related to sustainability through science and technology.

Comprising a collection of selected research papers, this book discusses the challenges related to climate change mitigation and adaptation.

In 1973, a seminar was held by Resources for the Future to bring together the new and growing community of scholars researching into the general field of energy modelling.

This book unveils how the world in the twenty-first century will need to manage our most fundamental resource need, water.

This collection breaks new ground by investigating applications of degrowth in a range of geographic, practical and theoretical contexts along the food chain.

Women accomplish nearly two-thirds of total work around the world (including household duties), comprise one-third of the formal labor force, but women receive one-tenth of the world's income and own only one-hundredth of the world's property.

This impactful volume demonstrates the application and power of psychology and behavioural economics in the pursuit of quality and continuous improvement.

Introduction The changing business environment, of global operations, mergers, decen- tralization, increased competition, pressure on budgets etc.

Encyclopaedic Dictionary of Management In ten volume, is a compilation of technical terms add expressions used in management literature and communications.

Port Economics is the study of the economic decisions (and their consequences) of the users and providers of port services.

Combating climate change will increasingly impact on production industries and the workers they employ as production changes and consumption is targeted.

The term sustainability has become one of the most significant in the current era.

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

Beyond the Bottom Line: Integrating the UN Global Compact into Management Practice is the first book to look at how the Ten UN Global Compact Principles and the sustainability agenda can be incorporated into business practice.

Buying for retail is a demanding and challenging job that requires a creative flair, a strong awareness of fashion trends, life trends as well as good interpersonal and team working skills.

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

It is a systems world.

Our bee populations are under threat.

Innovative strategies for building and managing the supply chain using Lean and the Theory of Constraints (TOC)With an emphasis on systems thinking, Building Lean Supply Chains with the Theory of Constraints uniquely integrates TOC with Lean, illustrating how these two philosophies complement and reinforce each other to create the smooth flow of goods and services through the supply chain.

Cargo Theft, Loss Prevention, and Supply Chain Security outlines steps for identifying the weakest links in the supply chain and customizing a security program to help you prevent thefts and recover losses.

This book is specifically for working operations managers across the broad range of business types that deploy fleet and product via a myriad of service types.

'Supply Chain Management Workbook' provides an overview of the supply chain process and addresses the key aspects involved in a supply chain.

In this smart, engaging book, Lee Eisenberg, best-selling author of The Number: A Completely Different Way to Think about the Rest of Your Life, leads us on a provocative and entertaining tour of America's love/hate affair with shopping, a pursuit that, even in hard times, remains a true national pastime.

This book gathers the selected papers from the Second International Symposium on Simulation and Process Modelling (ISSPM 2020), which was held online on August 29-30, 2020, due to COVID-19 pandemic.

It is generally accepted that climate change is happening and that steps need to be taken to alleviate this.

The last two decades have witnessed a dramatic expansion and intensification of mineral resource exploitation and development across the global south, especially in Latin America.

What are the key factors affecting global supply chains today and how can we manage them?

The difficulties in moving towards corporate sustainability raise the question of how environmental and social management can be integrated better with economic business goals.

Modern warehouses are capitalizing on cutting-edge technologies, new operating models and innovative practices to maximize their role in the wider supply chain.

This is the first textbook to adopt an integrated perspective of climate change in Australia, drawing on research from the latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (2021, 2022) Sixth Assessment Reports to make it the most up-to-date resource available.

In many businesses sustainability is one person's passion and responsibility.

The book examines a relatively unexplored issue in supply chain risk management, which is how long companies specifically take to respond to catastrophic events of low probability but high impact.

The management of logistics and supply chain operations is of vital importance in the defence sector.

This book discusses inventory models for determining optimal ordering policies using various optimization techniques, genetic algorithms, and data mining concepts.

Dieses Buch veranschaulicht die Auswirkungen der digitalen Transformation in Form von Fallstudien.

As the appetite for leisure travel and events continues to grow at an exponential rate, the impact on the environment and local communities is becoming an increasing concern, not least by the users of the services.

It is well known the global community is looking towards business to play its role in creating a just and fair economy.

This book shows how digital technologies are transforming how we locate, manage, treat, distribute, and use water.

This book offers an introduction to structural dynamics, ripple effect and resilience in supply chain disruption risk management for larger audiences.

This book is aimed at manufacturing and planning managers who struggle to bring a greater degree of stability and more effective use of assets to their operations, not realizing the degree to which production scheduling affects those objectives.