Logistics refers to the processes that start with resources and their acquisition, storage, and transportation to their destination. The concept is crucial in business -- particularly for the manufacturing sector -- to understand, manage, and control how resources are handled and progress through the whole supply chain. Now, there is a strong trend to focus on sustainability and eco-friendly solutions in logistics. Processes based on both technology and management need innovations and detailed implementation steps to achieve a satisfactory level of sustainability.
This book explores how and where innovations can be implemented to provide a wide approach to sustainability in logistics. It addresses the main challenges affecting modern and sustainable logistics and supply chains and is organized according to six main themes: supply chain management; information intelligent hubs (e.g. warehouse and cities); sustainable transportation; technology for logistics; reverse logistics; and city logistics. The key results presented are based on both extensive types of research and business cases. The overarching advanced logistics and supply chain concepts at the heart of this book contribute to a sustainable intelligent logistics and transport system by making it more efficient, reliable, environmentally friendly, and competitive.
Essentially, this book presents the most current research related to sustainability in logistics activities and addresses the theoretical background of sustainability and its significance for logistics, the challenges in supply chains and transportation, and possible solutions for more sustainable logistics systems.
About the Author: Joanna Domagala, Ph.D. is an associate professor in the Department of Logistics, Institute of Economics and Finance, Warsaw University of Life Sciences (WULS). The main fields of her scientific interest are enterprise efficiency, internationalization, and globalization of the food industry sectors, logistics systems in agribusiness, management, and planning of logistics in enterprises, supply chain management. She is the author or co-author of more than 150 scientific publications. She has participated in foreign internships at the University of Georgia (USA) and Shanghai Ocean University (China). She has been a reviewer and a guest co-editor for many international journals. She is a member of the Polish Logistics Society, European Association of Agricultural Economists, and Association of Agricultural Economists and Agribusiness. She is the head of Postgraduate Studies in Logistics. https: //orcid.org/0000-0001-9801-4344.
Monika Roman. Ph.D. is an assistant professor in the Department of Logistics, Institute of Economics and Finance, Warsaw University of Life Sciences (WULS). Her research interests include several topics: spatial economies, agricultural economics, quantitative methods, transport, logistics systems in agribusiness, and optimization of logistics processes in enterprises. She is the author or co-author of more than 60 scientific publications. She has participated in foreign internships at University College Cork (Ireland) and the National University of Life and Environmental Sciences of (Ukraine). She has been a reviewer and a guest co-editor for several international journals. She is a member of the Polish Logistics Society, Polish Society of Production Management, and Association of Agricultural Economists and Agribusiness https: //orcid.org/0000-0003-1799-0445.
Aleksandra Górecka, Ph.D. is an assistant professor working Institute of Economics and Finance, Warsaw University of Life Sciences (WULS). Her main field of research is transport infrastructure, and transport economics, and economic development. She participated in more than 30 mobilities (e.g. Germany, Slovenia, Croatia, Austria, Czech Republic), numerous national and international conferences, hence her scientific relations allowed her to contribute to international joined research. She is the author or co-author of over 40 papers and 3 research books. She was also the reviewer of many Polish and foreign journals; https: //orcid.org/0000-0002-2679-561X
