Decision-Making for Sustainable Supply Chains and Green Logistics
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Economic and Business Aspects of Sustainability".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 May 2027 | Viewed by 23
Special Issue Editors
Interests: multiple attribute decision making; supply chain and logistics management; grey system theory
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
As global market competition intensifies, logistics and supply chain networks have become more complex and are facing significant environmental pressures. As a result, many countries advocate for the development of sustainable supply chains and green logistics. However, both sustainable supply chain and green logistics management are affected by many factors and thus need to be analyzed from different perspectives. Effective decision-making is crucial for reducing resource consumption and environmental pollution, promoting low-carbon development, implementing a circular economy, and strengthening supply chain competitiveness.
This Special Issue focuses specifically on decision-making problems with clear managerial, policy, and digital-market relevance. In addition to traditional analytical approaches, recent developments such as digitalization, data-driven decision-making, artificial intelligence, and platform-enabled supply chain models are increasingly influencing sustainable logistics practices and reshaping real-world decision contexts such as platform-based coordination, digital supply chain transformation, and sustainability-driven policy design. At the same time, while a range of analytical methods can support such decision-making (e.g., optimization models, multi-criteria decision-making approaches, and AI-based techniques). This focus on digitalization and data-driven decision-making distinguishes this Special Issue from existing collections on sustainability and logistics. In addition to emphasizing methodological applications, this Special Issue prioritizes contributions that address real-world decision-making challenges and clearly demonstrate theoretical contributions and rigorous empirical or data-driven validation.
Therefore, this Special Issue aims to explore decision-making problems with managerial, policy, and practical relevance in sustainable supply chain and green logistics management, supported by advanced analytical methods, models, and technologies. Submissions are expected to clearly demonstrate theoretical contributions and, where applicable, provide rigorous empirical evidence in addition to methodological innovations.
We welcome original research articles and reviews that explore innovative methodologies and applications at this intersection. Research areas may include (but are not limited to) the following:
- Sustainable supply chain and logistics system construction in the post-pandemic era;
- Sustainable supply chains;
- Green logistics；
- Green supply chain finance;
- Resilience and risk management in sustainable operations;
- Reverse logistics;
- Sustainable transportation and distribution；
- Sustainability and lean production;
- Sustainable supply chain design, optimization and data-driven modelling;
- Implementing circular economy principles and low-carbon strategies across the entire logistics network;
- Decision-making challenges in sustainable supply chains driven by digital technologies.
Dr. Peng Jiang
Prof. Dr. Yi-Chung Hu
Dr. Geng Wu
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- decision-making
- sustainable supply chains
- green logistics
- circular economy
- low-carbon
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