Innovative Logistics Services and Sustainable Lifestyles

Ani Melkonyan is Associate Professor of Environmental Sciences at the University of Duisburg-Essen (UDE), Executive Board Member of the University’s Centre for Logistics and Traffic (ZLV) and senior lecturer for the international master program on urban systems (Sustainable Urban Development/ Urban Culture, Society and Space). From 2015 – 2018 she was coordinating the research project ILoNa (“Innovative Logistics for Sustainable Lifestyles”), funded by the Federal Ministry of Research and Education, Germany. Amongst other aspects, within the project she developed and assessed sustainability potentials in food supply chains with business partners. Further projects, she is involved in, are the accompanying research of the European Green Capital 2017 and NEMO (“New Mobility Concepts along Emscher”), funded by the Mercator Foundation. Ani Melkonyan has completed her “habilitation” (Venia Legendi) in Environmental Sciences about the climate change influences on the agricultural sector in developing countries.  She also holds a PhD in Environmental Sciences from the University of Duisburg-Essen. Her Master Thesis was on mathematical modeling in Macro- and Micro-economy, which she completed at the Yerevan State University, Faculty of Economics. In her research on sustainable development, Ani Melkonyan unites ecological and economic domains as well as quantitative and qualitative methods. She is an author of more than twenty scientific publications. Klaus Krumme is Executive Director of the Center for Logistics and Traffic (ZLV) at the University of Duisburg-Essen (UDE) and Board Member of the University’s Joint Center Urban Systems (JUS). In addition, he is Co-Chairman of DIALOGistik, a leading science-business platform focusing on sustainable business and innovation management in logistics in the Ruhr area, Germany. Responsible for the guiding strategy of “logistics design competence” in Europe's largest logistics R&I cluster ("Efficiency Cluster Logistics Ruhr", winner of Germany’s leading-edge cluster competition 2010-2015) and the European Union Regions of Knowledge “Log4Green” project (2011 – 2014) he contributed to a strategic interdisciplinary research agenda for sustainable logistics and initiated blended strategies between sustainable consumption and supply chain management, which were fundamental for the project ILoNa and for the presented book. Klaus Krumme is an interdisciplinary scholar, graduated in Environmental Sciences as well as in Geography, Biology and Educational Science. He is Assistant Professor of Sustainability Science for the International Master Program on Urban Systems (Sustainable Urban Development / Urban Culture, Society and Space). His work concentrates on transdisciplinary sustainability strategies with a focus on resilient urban and regional systems as well as the transformational potential of logistics and supply chain management in domains of the green economy.

PartI: Introduction and Overview.- Chapter1: Integrating perspectives of logistics and lifestyles for a sustainable economy.- Chapter2: Supply Chains and Systems of Sustainability - An Attempt to Close the Gap.- PartII: Challenges in Logistics and SCM: Trends in the sector considering consumer lifestyles.- Chapter3: Leverage points for sustainable, innovative logistics considering consumer lifestyles.- Chapter4: Assessment of consumer attitudes toward sustainability in food logistics and the role of shopping behavior and personal characteristics.- Chapter5: Green Bullwhip Effect Revisited: How Sustainable Lifestyles Might Influence Supply Chains.- Chapter6: Communicating sustainable logistic innovations to various consumer groups.- PartIII: Transformation potential towards sustainable supply chains.- Chapter7: Local and sustainable food businesses: Assessing the role of supply chain coordination.- Chapter8: A system dynamics-based simulation model toanalyze consumers' behavior based on participatory systems mapping - A "last mile" perspective.- Chapter9: Diffusion of a social innovation: Spatial aspects of 'Foodsharing' distribution in Germany.- PartIV: Scenario and Strategy Development for future sustainable supply chain and logistics services.- Chapter10: Scenario Planning for Sustainable Food Supply Chains.- Chapter11: Applications of digital technologies in sustainable logistics and supply chain management.- Chapter12: Sustainable Logistics and Transportation Systems: Integrating Optimization and Simulation Analysis to Enhance Strategic Supply Chain Decision-Making.- PartV: Synthesis and Perspectives.- Chapter13: Recommendations for politics, companies and intermediaries to support the transformation towards sustainable supply chains.- Chapter14: Research and innovation perspectives for integrated supply chains in a sustainable economy