nowadays, the environmental impact of transportation project and, especially air pollution impacts, are major concerns in evaluating transportation projects. based on this concern, beside definition of traditional objective functions like total travel time and total investment cost, different type of environmental related function is considered as objective function in urban network design. in ...

With the growth of public awareness for environmental protection, green production was raised as an important issue for each producer, which will guarantee its activity in long term. Creating suppliers, performance assessment system is so necessary and important that it measures suitability of the suppliers for long-term cooperation with the company. Many activities have been performed for sele...

Environment management is the new development in the field of management which has emerged due to high production and consumption rate, globally. In addition, it has become need of present competitive business environment that, organizations should take some environmental initiatives and reduce environmental impact of their operations. This research paper attempts to review previous research st...

Flexible and dynamic supply chain network design problem has been studied by many researchers during past years. Since integration of short-term and long-term decisions in strategic planning leads to more reliable plans, in this paper a multi-objective model for a sustainable closed-loop supply chain network design problem is proposed. The planning horizon of this model contains multiple strate...

Sustainable supply chain management is a topical area which is continuing to grow and evolve. Within supply chains, downstream distribution from producers to customers plays a significant role in the environmental performance of production supply chains. With consumer consciousness growing in the area of sustainable food supply, food distribution needs to embrace and adapt to improve its enviro...

To maintain a competitive position, companies are increasingly required to integrate their proactive environmental strategies into their business strategies. The shift from reactive and compliance-based to proactive and strategic environmental management has driven companies to consider the strategic factors while identifying the areas in which they should focus their green initiatives. In prev...

Green supply chain is a supply chain system focusing on environmental impacts and the efficiency of energy used. A green supply chain will be achieved if a system is able to track down all information regarding the environmental influence. However, a green supply chain will not be possible without enterprise resource planning (ERP) implementation in organizations. ERP is the integrated informat...

In this study, we consider green supply chains as a potential area for business growth, product/operation efficiency, and effective utilization of environmental resources. These areas contribute to the greater good of the society. This study intends to focus on the various impacts of the green supply chain in terms of citizenship. We explore the concept of citizenship and how citizenship impact...