As firms become progressively more tightly coupled in global supply chains, rather than being large vertically integrated monoliths, risks and opportunities associated with activities upstream or downstream will increasingly impinge upon their own wellbeing. For a firm to thrive, it is increasingly imperative that it be aware of economic, environmental and social dimensions of the entire supply chain it belongs to, and that it proactively monitor and manage those. Finding efficient solutions towards a more sustainable supply chain is increasingly important for managers, but clearly this raises difficult questions, often without clear answers. Together with my co-editors Yann Bouchery, Charles Corbett and Tarkan Tan, we have been fortunate to include many leading researchers in our book. Each and everyone of them provide insights for students and practitioners, based on the latest academic research.

Managers and other practitioners will find a comprehensive yet concise overview of all recent academic work in this rapidly expanding field. While the book certainly is not easy bedtime reading (some chapter even contain a bit of math), all chapters are well accessible for the interested and committed manager or consultant. Each chapter provides a concise overview of a particular topic. We address a wide variety of supply chain decision fields, such as network design, inventory management, transportation planning, sourcing, and distribution. Similarly, for many of these fields we address a variety of sustainability concerns, from more ecologically oriented impacts such as carbon emissions, energy usage and water scarcity, to social responsibility topics like responsible sourcing and child labor.

University Professors and students will find this book the best suitable supporting material for their (graduate) course on sustainable supply chain management, whether this is in a business program, an industrial engineering program, or an industrial ecology program.

Together with the publisher, we have been able to keep the price of the book accessible. Furthermore, for teachers and students at universities at which the library has acquired the e-book, a cheap softcover version can be purchased from Springer.

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