Sustainable development, logistics

Photovoltaics may provide a revolution in the supply of electric power. Still, to ensure that new buildings contribute to sustainable development a less cautious bureaucracy is needed, which is less resistant to new ideas and not associated with vested interests, especially in the non-renewable electricity industry. Logistical problems have also damped solar energy growth. This includes the difficulty of finding reputable contractors to install solar panels. 

Far from being limited in action, logistics consequently offers several drivers in the service of sustainable development. In the following sections we shall be attempting to show how logistics can reconcile the expectations of shareholders, customers, the staff, society and the environment by being more reliable, efficient, agile and mindful of the preservation of social and environmental balances. 

Because of its approach directed towards social and environmental objectives allied to economic performance, the eco-logistic driver is represented as a virtuous loop combining the three pillars of sustainable development applied to logistics (see Figure 4.5). 

Combined with the three leverage drivers of reliability, efficiency and logistic agility - sources of social, economic and environmental benefits - the eco-logistic lever strengthens the contribution of the supply chain to the social and environmental aspects of sustainable development. 

Towards Sustainable Logistics in the Service of Sustainable Development... 

Other initiatives for logistics directed towards the requirements of sustainable development are imder way. For example, in the fast-moving consumer goods industry, the Global Commerce Initiative (GCI) defined the key changes required for the future supply chain in 2016. Seven areas for improvement are identified in ... 

Finally, we note that the economic, social and environmental aspects of logistics are indissociable and all three participate in the emergence of this strategic function in the service of sustainable development, alongside the sustainable solutions of eco-design, eco-industrialization and eco-production used in industry. 

Model deployment logistics might not be academically interesting, but they are absolutely critical for project success. The most effective method in the world, developed using state of the art modehng methods, is worthless unless it can be deployed in an effective, safe and sustainable manner. Unfortunately, though, the deployment landscape of chemometrics in PAT can vary widely between applications, and thus the details of model deployments can vary widely as well. Nonetheless, this section wiU attempt to provide a brief summary of the more common deployment issues that arise in PAT applications. 

Apart from the logistical questions involved in developing the infrastructure of a reporting system, several key principles create the foundation of trust required to sustain a blameless voluntary reporting system. These principles are critical to... 

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