Introduction to the Special Issue on the Environment

Erica L. Plambeck () and L. Beril Toktay ()
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Erica L. Plambeck: Graduate School of Business, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305
L. Beril Toktay: Scheller College of Business, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia 30308

Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, 2013, vol. 15, issue 4, 523-526

Abstract: 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.

Keywords: environmentally sustainable operations management; product design; energy efficiency; climate change; population; adaptation; chemical toxicity (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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