Sustainable Assessment in Supply Chain and Infrastructure Management
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 September 2021) | Viewed by 54903
Special Issue Editors
Interests: system risk, reliability, resilience assessment; interdependent network resilience analytics; multi-criteria decision analysis under risk and uncertainty; infrastructure management
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Interests: supply chain risk management; sustainable supply chains; bioeconomy; decision-making; operations research
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Interests: artificial intelligence and machine learning; operations management; operations research and decision analysis; supply chain management
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Assessing sustainability in supply chain and infrastructure management is an important task for any organisation in the competitive business environment or public domain. Organisations are presently trying to develop their sustainable strategies through preparedness, response and recovery because of increased competitive, regulatory and community pressure. Sustainability in the context of supply chain implies, that companies identify, assess and manage impacts and risks in all the echelons of the supply chain considering upstream and downstream activities. On the other hand, sustainable infrastructure management can be defined as the ability of infrastructure to meet the requirements of the present without sacrificing the ability of future generations to address their needs. Considering the wider adoption and development of sustainability principles across the globe, there is a real need to develop a meaningful and more focused understanding of sustainability in supply chain management and infrastructure management practices.
This Special Issue aims to encourage studies exploring theoretical, methodological, and practical studies related to the sustainability assessment in supply chain and infrastructure management. This Special Issue focuses on but is not limited to:
- Modelling for sustainable supply chain
- Sustainable strategies in global supply chain
- Risk management in sustainable supply chain
- Reverse logistics and circular economy
- Environmental impact assessment in supply chain
- Ethical and social aspects of supply chain
- Supply chain technology and impact on sustainability
- Modelling for sustainable transportation and logistics
- Sustainability in small and medium enterprises (SMEs)
- Risk assessment and management of critical infrastructures
- Vulnerability and consequence assessment of infrastructures
- Sustainability assessment and resilience analysis of critical infrastructures
- Life cycle cost analysis for the sustainable infrastructure assessment
- Resource allocation for maintenance, repair, and replacement of infrastructure systems
Dr. Golam Kabir
Dr. Sanjoy Kumar Paul
Dr. Syed Mithun Ali
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- sustainable and resilient infrastructure
- reliability and risk management
- critical infrastructure
- sustainable supply chain
- environmental sustainability
- ethical and social sustainability
- risk management in sustainable supply chain
- sustainable transportation and logistics
- sustainability in SMEs
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