Green Logistic for Sustainable Development
Management and Sustainable Development 2011
Andrejs Tambovcevs, Tatjana Tambovceva

The purpose of the study is to see potential of integrating environment issues into logistic system by literature review and case study. The air pollution and energy consumption result from the transportation are calling attention by people to consider organization’s logistic structure. How logistics systems influence on environmental performance and how environmental impact affect on logistics systems have brought into consideration. With the adoption of EMS and ISO 14001 certification by many organizations, the possibility of using EMSs as a tool for the logistics management seems to be worth doing. And this is a trend for logistic development in the future. The activities which are mostly related to the environmental performance need to be pointed. At the same time, the application of EMSs and ISO 14001 are not so proficient for most of them because of the lacking restriction. The companies will face a lot of challenges in the process of implementing EMS in logistics systems. Through the research, the main logistic activities were described as warehouse management, package and transportation. The environmental influences results from these three activities include energy consumption, raw material consumption, waste and emission to air and water. For decreasing the land use and energy consumption, many warehouses are removed and one central warehouse instead. The development of IT solutions is the results from decreasing the energy consumption in the inventory and distribution.


Keywords
green logistic, green supply chain, environmental management, sustainable development
Hyperlink
http://alephfiles.rtu.lv/TUA01/000035239_e.pdf

Tambovcevs, A., Tambovceva, T. Green Logistic for Sustainable Development. Management and Sustainable Development, 2011, Vol. 29, No. 2, pp.197-203. ISSN 1311-4506.

Publication language
Russian (ru)
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