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Sustainability and Green Logistics: An Introduction
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6 h
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- 2 Sequences
- Introductive Level
- Starts on January 19, 2020
- Ends on February 8, 2020
Course details
Syllabus
Week 1
- Sustainability
- The triple-bottom line
- Environmental legislation
- International treaties
- Sustainable supply chains
- Sustainable development goals
- Corporate social responsibility
Week 2
- Sustainable sourcing
- Green logistics
- Product-based and supplier-based procurement
- Ethical materials sourcing (eg fairtrade principles)
- Responsible supplier procurement (eg supplier code of conduct)
- Globalisation and sourcing from developing countries
- GreenScor model
Prerequisite
None.
Instructors
Dr Maro Triantafyllou
A Chartered Transport Engineer specialised in sustainable waste management operations. Holder of a PhD in Green Logistics with 15 years of industrial and academic experience in the UK and abroad
Editor
Coventry University is a post-1992 British university located in Coventry, England, United Kingdom. The university, which has around 17,000 students, is particularly well known for its engineering and automotive design.
Platform
FutureLearn is a massive open online course (MOOC) learning platform founded in December 2012.
It is a company launched and wholly owned by The Open University in Milton Keynes, England. It is the first UK-led massive open online course learning platform, and as of March 2015 included 54 UK and international University partners and unlike similar platforms includes four non-university partners: the British Museum, the British Council, the British Library and the National Film and Television School.
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