Green Logistics analyzes the environmental consequences of logistics and how to deal with them. Written by a leading team of logistics academics, the book examines ways of reducing these externalities and achieving a more sustainable balance between economic, environmental and social objectives. This new edition introduces new contributors and international case studies, includes downloadable supporting materials, technical information and guidelines for teachers/lecturers. The editors have added new material on e-business, e-logistics and the environment and new chapters on green performance and environmental reporting, nature-inspired network design for distributed logistics, Green Logistics developments in different parts of the world and Future Scenarios for Green Logistics.