Green Supply Chain Management for Sustainable Development
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainable Management".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 3 July 2024 | Viewed by 2698
Special Issue Editors
Interests: renewable energy; climate change policies; mitigation and adaptation; energy efficiency; policy and economics; triple bottom line sustainability modelling including carbon accounting; input-output analysis and LCA; green supply chain management
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues:
Green Supply Chain Management (GSCM) as a concept provides a framework for imbibing environmental considerations into the operations and activities of companies (Srivastava, 2007). As a result, it helps companies monitor the environmental dimensions of their supply chain network and continuously improve supply chain performance. By addressing the environmental dimensions of supply chains, GSCM seeks to address the utilization of materials and natural resources, as well as the resulting environmental impacts of the use of these resources. GSCM consequently reinforces the natural-resource-based view of the firm (Hart, 1995), which hypothesizes that there is a relationship between organizations and the natural environment in terms of the use of natural resources (that is, product stewardship) and the resultant impacts caused by employing these resources (pollution prevention), for which product stewardship-based strategies and pollution prevention-based strategies can help promote sustainable development.
While the benefits of GSCM to environmental sustainability are evident, according to Porter’s hypothesis (Porter, 1996), even more stringent environmental regulation can lead to economic benefits and a competitive advantage. Consequently, it can be argued that there is also a business case for GSCM.
GSCM for sustainable development aims to achieve the goal of the sustainable development of economic efficiency and the enhancement of firm competitiveness, as well as the enhancement of socio-environmental systems. To this end, in the contemporary business environment, a key question that arises pertains to how organizations might leverage different emerging strands of GSCM to promote sustainable development.
This Special Issue seeks original research articles (analytical, empirical, review and conceptual) that address the major themes of the topic. Research areas may include (but are not limited to) the following:
- Environmental sustainability modelling;
- Circular economy;
- Green supply chain management;
- Lifecycle assessment;
- Decision support systems.
Dr. Adolf Acquaye
Dr. Sharfuddin Ahmed Khan
Guest Editors
Manuscript Submission Information
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Keywords
- green supply chain management
- sustainable development
- circular economy
- lifecycle assessment
