Introduction to the Special Issue on the Environment

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Plambeck, Erica L.; Toktay, L. Beril
• 署名单位: Stanford University; University System of Georgia; Georgia Institute of Technology
• 刊物名称: M&SOM-MANUFACTURING & SERVICE OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT
• ISSN/ISSBN: 1523-4614
• DOI: 10.1287/msom.2013.0457
• 发表日期: 2013
• 页码: 523-526
• 关键词: environmentally sustainable operations management; product design; Energy efficiency; climate change; population; adaptation; chemical toxicity

摘要

Human population growth and increasing consumption per capita are causing environmental impacts that threaten the survival and well-being of humans and other species on Earth. To sustain natural ecosystems and human populations with a high standard of living, humanity must now reinvent our systems for the production and delivery of goods and services to dramatically reduce the environmental impacts associated with consumption. The operations management community can contribute critical know-how to do so, as demonstrated by the papers in this special issue.