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| Contributor biographies | |
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| Assessing The Environmental Effects of Logistics | |
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| Environmental sustainability: a new priority for logistics managers | |
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| Introduction | |
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| A brief history of green logistics research | |
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| Green logistics: rhetoric and reality | |
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| A model for green logistics research | |
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| Outline of the book | |
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| Notes | |
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| References | |
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| Assessing the environmental impacts of freight transport | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Environmental impacts | |
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| Environmental standards | |
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| measuring the environmental impact of freight transport | |
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| Notes | |
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| References | |
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| Carbon auditing of companies, supply chains and products | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Guidelines for carbon footprinting | |
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| The carbon footprinting process | |
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| Success factors in carbon footprinting | |
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| Case study: carbon auditing of road freight transport operations in the UK | |
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| Conclusions | |
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| References | |
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| Evaluating and internalizing the environmental costs of logistics | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Arguments for and against the internalization of environmental costs | |
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| Monetary valuation of environmental costs | |
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| Internalization of the external costs imposed by road freight vehicles in the UK | |
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| Conclusions | |
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| Notes | |
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| References | |
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| Strategic Perspective | |
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| Restructuring of logistics systems and supply chains | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Current state of knowledge of traditional supply chains | |
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| Green supply chains | |
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| Gaps in our understanding and priorities for research | |
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| Consequences and conclusions | |
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| References | |
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| Transferring freight to 'greener' transport modes | |
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| Background | |
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| Characteristics of the main freight transport modes | |
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| Environmental impacts of the main freight transport modes | |
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| Case study: container train load factors | |
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| The policy framework | |
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| Examples of measures aimed at achieving modal shift for environmental benefit | |
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| Rail and water industries | |
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| Conclusions | |
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| References | |
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| Development of greener vehicles, aircraft and ships | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Road freight | |
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| Rail freight operations | |
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| Air freight | |
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| Shipping | |
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| Conclusions | |
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| Notes | |
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| References | |
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| Reducing the environmental impact of warehousing | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Scale of the environmental impact | |
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| Increasing resource intensity | |
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| Framework for assessing the environmental impact of warehouses | |
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| Ways of reducing the environmental impact | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| References | |
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| Operational Perspective | |
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| Opportunities for improving vehicle utilization | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Measuring vehicle utilization | |
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| Factors affecting the utilization of truck capacity | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Note | |
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| References | |
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| Optimizing the routing of vehicles | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Vehicle routing problems | |
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| Types of problem | |
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| Environmental impact | |
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| Conclusions | |
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| References | |
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| Increasing fuel efficiency in the road freight sector | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Fuel efficiency of new trucks | |
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| Vehicle design: aerodynamic profiling | |
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| Reducing the vehicle tare weight | |
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| Vehicle purchase decision | |
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| Vehicle maintenance | |
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| Increasing the fuel efficiency of trucking operations | |
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| Benchmarking the fuel efficiency of trucks | |
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| More fuel-efficient driving | |
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| Fleet management | |
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| Conclusions | |
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| References | |
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| Reverse logistics for the management of waste | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Waste management in the context of reverse logistics | |
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| The impact of waste treatment legislation | |
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| Reuse, refurbishment markets and take-back schemes | |
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| Managing waste as part of a sustainable reverse process | |
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| Conclusions | |
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| References | |
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| Key issues | |
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| The food miles debate | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Transport and GHGs: is further worse? | |
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| Transport, the second order impacts and the implications for GHGs | |
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| Local versus global and the self-sufficiency question | |
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| Notes | |
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| References | |
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| Sustainability strategies for city logistics | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Urban freight research and policy making | |
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| Efficiency problems in urban freight transport | |
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| Urban freight transport initiatives | |
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| urban consolidation centres | |
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| Joint working between the public and private sectors | |
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| Environmental zones | |
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| Conclusions | |
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| References | |
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| Benefits and costs of switching to alternative fuels | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The main types of alternative fuels | |
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| Current use of AFs in the freight industry | |
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| The future | |
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| Notes | |
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| References | |
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| E-business, e-logistics and the environment | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Business-to-business (B2B) | |
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| Business-to-consumer (B2C) | |
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| Restructuring of the supply chain | |
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| the environmental impact of e-commerce | |
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| Case study: online book supply chain | |
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| The future | |
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| References | |
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| Public policy perspective | |
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| The role of government in promoting green logistics | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Objectives of public policy on sustainable logistics | |
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| Policy measures | |
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| Reducing freight transport intensity | |
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| Shifting freight to greener transport modes | |
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| Improving vehicle utilization | |
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| Increasing energy efficiency | |
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| cutting emissions relative to energy use | |
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| Government-sponsored advisory and accreditation programmes | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Note | |
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| References | |
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| Index | |