Sustainable Operations and Logistics

Dear Colleagues,

The rapidly growing number of research studies and business cases prove that sustainability considerations are attracting increased attention in the domains of operations and logistics, both in research and in practice. This is not surprising, as sustainable operations and logistics may contribute significantly to an overall sustainable development meeting the future generations’ needs while taking economic, environmental, and social aspects into account.

Aim and Scope of the Special Issue

The aim of this Special Issue is to contribute to sustainable development by presenting innovative approaches and applications as well as empirical findings for integrating sustainability aspects into the operations and logistics sector. The following list provides an illustrative set of topics and paper types suitable for this Special Issue, but is far from being exhaustive. Any questions about the suitability of a topic may be directed to the Special Issue Guest Editor.

• Methodological papers: Novel approaches for integrating and/or balancing sustainability aspects in decision-making processes from the operations and logistics sector (e.g., facility location or supplier selection decisions); development of decisions support systems.
• Conceptual papers: Innovative approaches for operations and logistics system analyses with a special focus on one-, two-, or three-dimensional sustainability (one-dimensional: e.g., environmental; two-dimensional: e.g., environmental and economic).
• Innovative data collection and processing approaches for sustainable system analyses and decision making in the operations and logistics sector.
• Transport systems analyses with a focus on environmental and social sustainability aspects (air, maritime, land).
• Empirical papers/computational analyses.
• Real-word applications/case studies.
• Systematic literature reviews: This may cover the topics listed above, that is, literature reviews on approaches for integrating sustainability aspects into operations and logistics decision-making situations, presentations of real-world applications/best practices, empirical studies, and so forth.

Dr. Florian Kellner
Guest Editor

Manuscript Submission Information

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