Sustainable Logistics and Supply Chain Management : Principles and Practices for Sustainable Operations and Management

Our daily lives are permeated by the activities of logistics and supply chain, from food and clothing to doorstep deliveries. As these processes have the ability to significantly impact the natural environment, it has never been so important to develop and implement sustainable principles and practices.

Sustainable Logistics and Supply Chain Management is an essential textbook for undergraduate and postgraduate students for understanding sustainability as it pertains to logistics operations. This book covers the direct environmental impacts of logistics and supply chain processes, including emissions and waste, as well as how wider changes such as globalization need to be given similar considerations. Presenting different pathways to guide readers, case studies and supported by extensive research, this book provides all the support needed to understand and implement a sustainable approach.

Now in its third edition, Sustainable Logistics and Supply Chain Management is fully updated with the latest research and data including trends in logistics and supply chain management and new cases. Online resources include instructor manuals, lecturer slides and a complied list of figures and tables.

David B. Grant is Vice Rector (Dean) of Research and Societal Impact and Professor of Supply Chain Management and Social Responsibility at Hanken School of Economics, Helsinki, Finland. He is also a Bualuang ASEAN Chair Professor at Thammasat University, Bangkok, Thailand.

He received his PhD from Edinburgh University and his thesis, investigating customer service, satisfaction, and service quality in UK food processing logistics, received the James Cooper Memorial Cup PhD Award from the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport (UK) in 2003. His research interests include logistics customer service, satisfaction, and service quality, retail logistics including omnichannel, reverse and sustainable and societal logistics. He has over 250 publications in various fora and is Senior Associate Editor for the International Journal of Physical Distribution & Logistics Management, Associate Editor for the Journal of Supply Chain Management and on the editorial board of several other international journals.

His book for Kogan Page, Fashion Logistics, co-authored with Professor John Fernie, is in its second edition. In 2019, David was ranked fifth in Economics, Business and Management and first in Industrial Economics and Logistics in an academic study evaluating Finnish professorial research impact and productivity.