Special Issue "Sustainability in Emergency Supply Chain Management"

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 August 2021.

Special Issue Editors

Prof. Qiuhong Zhao
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Guest Editor
School of Economics and Management, Beihang University, Beijing 100191, China
Interests: production and operation management; supply chain and logistics management; emergency management; meta-heuristics algorithms
Dr. Chengfeng Wu
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Guest Editor
College of Economics and Management, Qingdao University of Science and Technology, Qingdao 266061, China
Interests: green supply chain management; supply chain finance; logistics management
Dr. Yanhong Ma
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Guest Editor
School of Economics and Management, Beijing Information Science & Technology University, Beijing 100192, China
Interests: decision theory and methods
Dr. Dongmei Ni
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Guest Editor
School of Economics and Management, Beijing University of Agriculture, Beijing 102206, China
Interests: supply chain management; agricultural production marketing

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Because of the outbreak of COVID-19, the world is witnessing an unprecedented upheaval in the supply chain. This upheaval increases the risk of the disruption of the supply chain and decreases its sustainability. The supply chain plays an important role in ensuring the efficiency of social emergency responses. Therefore, improving its sustainability is an important means to restore world economic development. Meanwhile, it can also help to stabilize the position of the countries in the global supply chain. Against this background, how to improve the sustainability of the supply chain in the current world situation becomes an urgent problem.

In addition, the deterioration of the global environment puts forward important requirements for the green supply chain, and emergency supply chains are no exception. Consequently, while focusing on the efficiency of emergency response, the impact of the emergency supply chain on environmental sustainability should also be considered.

In view of the above, this Special Issue stimulates a debate and discussion on the sustainability of the supply chain to cope with emergencies, as well as environmental protection issues in emergency supply chains. Topics of interest include but are not limited to the following:

  • Supply chain complexity in emergency issues;
  • Supply chain complexity in sustainable supply chains;
  • Emergency supply chain management and its sustainability;
  • Sustainable logistics management and operations;
  • Collaborative modelling for multi-objective optimization for sustainable emergency logistics;
  • Supply chain resilience;
  • Supply chain design, optimization, and data-driven modeling with consideration of sustainability;
  • Other related research topics.

Prof. Qiuhong Zhao
Dr. Chengfeng Wu
Dr. Yanhong Ma
Dr. Dongmei Ni
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

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Keywords

  • emergency supply chain
  • emergency logistics
  • sustainable supply chain
  • green supply chain
  • modeling
  • cooperation

Published Papers

This special issue is now open for submission.
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