Innovative Logistics Services and Sustainable Lifestyles Interdepend
This edited volume aims to describe the transformation of supply chain management (SCM) and logistics services by merging sustainable logistics, SCM, sustainable consumption and lifestyle research. This assessment of the transformation potential serves th
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novative Logistics Services and Sustainable Lifestyles Interdependencies, Transformation Strategies and Decision Making
Innovative Logistics Services and Sustainable Lifestyles
Ani Melkonyan • Klaus Krumme Editors
Innovative Logistics Services and Sustainable Lifestyles Interdependencies, Transformation Strategies and Decision Making
Editors Ani Melkonyan Centre for Logistics and Traffic Joint Centre Urban Systems University of Duisburg-Essen Duisburg, Germany
Klaus Krumme Centre for Logistics and Traffic Joint Centre Urban Systems University of Duisburg-Essen Duisburg, Germany
ISBN 978-3-319-98466-7 ISBN 978-3-319-98467-4 (eBook) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-98467-4 Library of Congress Control Number: 2018965418 © Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. The publisher, the authors, and the editors are safe to assume that the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication. Neither the publisher nor the authors or the editors give a warranty, express or implied, with respect to the material contained herein or for any errors or omissions that may have been made. The publisher remains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations. This Springer imprint is published by the registered company Springer Nature Switzerland AG The registered company address is: Gewerbestrasse 11, 6330 Cham, Switzerland
Foreword
Three years after launching the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and agreeing on far-reaching global ambitions on climate action at the Paris Summit, the world looks increasingly fragmented. Daily news confirms sweeping nationalism and phobia against ‘others’ all around. The spirit of collaboration is vanishing. Goodwill of sustainability is confronted with socio-economic fundamentals of many people feeling left behind, with widespread anger in each part of societies and with environmental challenges threatening the health and livelihood of millions. The Indian author Pankaj Mishra traces the current ‘age of anger’, as he calls it in his book, partly back to Western philosophy of the eighteenth and nineteenth century and gives numerous evidence of well-known writers such as Voltaire and Rousseau mixing modernization and progress with a pursuit of nation
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