I. Introduction and the main concept
XX century is the time of great progress in science, particularly in the production technologies. As we know it is time when the second scientific and technical revolution took place. This leap was caused by many events and social processes, such as Second World War, following it Cold War and the development and spreading of democracy. » Read more: Report_Team#1. Part_1.
There are many of definitions of the term “logistics”. Here some of them:
First of all, we would like to thank all Dutch teams and teachers for our introductory conference. We will be happy to continue this international communication and we’d like to make it more intensive as well.
Here we are presenting you our common definition of sustainability in logistics, which was developed by all three Russian teams at today’s discussion.
“Sustainability in logistics is such a state and interaction of enterprise systems that enable the preservation of the integrated control and management of material, financial and informational flows of the company in conditions of maintenance of general balance between different spheres of society and environment”
We enjoyed Rui’s definition much. Thank you, Rui, for all the information you’ve given, it’s very useful. And we would like you all to have a small discussion with us concerning the given definitions.
I prepared a draft with definitions of sustainability in transportation, and overview of frameworks. It is not completed yet, and I will continue with developments of this draft. I invite you to have a look at what I have done, and discuss it tomorrow.
XX century is the time of great progress in science, particularly in the production technologies. As we know it is exactly when the second scientific and technical revolution took place. This leap was caused by many events and social processes, such as Second World War, following it Cold War and the development and spreading of democracy.
The fact that humanity realized the lack of resources and our intolerable attitude to planet is not illogic.
Thus mankind faced the problem of economical usage of resources and optimization of production process. Logistical aspect of this problem is not new, but due to the world trend to integration the concern of shipping, storing and distribution became actual and universally common. That is why logistics and particularly sustainability in it are highly important issues to be analyzed.
To understand what sustainability in logistics is we’d like to ascertain what sustainability is in general. We developed the common scheme of social system functioning in the frames of biosphere (pic.1.), where “G” stands for government, “C” – for consumer society and “B” – for business, enterprise including three main parts and relations between them: “ext” means extracting resources, “mun” means manufacturing of goods, “dis” – distribution of them.
Pic.1. Scheme of social system’s subjects interconnection in biosphere
This generalized scheme illustrates activity of social systems, so you can see two-way flows of goods, money, resources and other. By creating this scheme we want to demonstrate the limitation of everything inside biosphere by its borders.
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