Planning a sustainable reverse logistics system: Balancing costs with environmental and social concerns
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Planning a sustainable reverse logistics system: Balancing costs with environmental and social concerns
The present work aims to support tactical and operational planning decisions of reverse logistics systems while considering economic, environmental and social objectives. In the literature, when addressing such systems economic aspects have been often used, while environmental concerns have emerged only recently. The social component is the one less studied and rarely the combination of the thr...
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عنوان ژورنال: Omega
سال: 2014
ISSN: 0305-0483
DOI: 10.1016/j.omega.2013.11.006