Abstract
In the context of sustainable development, the need to improve the models of functioning and development of society, as well as the scientific knowledge underlying them is urgent. In particular, an ecologically oriented improvement of logistics science is needed to ensure the full use of its tools to resolve the modern socio-ecological and economic problems of resource use. In this regard, it is important to identify the directions and content of the ecologically related transformation of theoretical and methodological foundations of logistics, which is the purpose of this article. The paper outlines the main directions of logistic theory change in the context of the sustainable development paradigm. These changes embrace the improvement of the methodological basis of logistic science on the ground of provisions of ecological economics, environmental ethics, and principles of industrial ecology, etc. As a result, modern logistic management goals and objectives include environmental and social targets, and wider interpretation of material flow allows to manage the waste, emissions, secondary materials, and flaw components. The improvement of a methodical framework of logistic decision-making is associated with the environmentally adjusted calculation and analysis of total costs, proceeding from the assessment of environmental aspects of flow processes through the use of material flows analysis and life cycle assessment tools. Thus, the conceptual provisions of logistics may be used to solve various tasks in the context of sustainable development, in particular: to minimize the negative environmental impact of certain production process, enterprise, network (supply chain), as well as to form the regulatory framework for the promotion of ecoindustrial parks.
Highlights
Sustainable development paradigm defines the goals and objectives of society’s development from the standpoint of the triunity of social, ecological, and economic aspects of social life
These changes embrace the improvement of the methodological basis of logistic science on the ground of provisions of ecological economics, environmental ethics, and principles of industrial ecology, etc
Logistics is intera model of organization of economic actors’ inter- disciplinary in its sense (Møller, 1995; Klaus, 2009; action based on the logistic principles, which is the Brzozowska et al, 2016), its methodology rests on form of the practical implementation of industrial general systems theory, cybernetics, modeling, and ecology ideas
Summary
Sustainable development paradigm defines the goals and objectives of society’s development from the standpoint of the triunity of social, ecological, and economic aspects of social life. Logistics is interpreted as a science of management of complex flows in networks rather than as a narrow functional area concerning transportation and inventory management issues This allows both to ensure economic effectiveness of resources movement in the socio-economic system and to consider logistics as an element of a system of scientific disciplines aimed at the achievement of sustainable development goals. Logistics is intera model of organization of economic actors’ inter- disciplinary in its sense (Møller, 1995; Klaus, 2009; action based on the logistic principles, which is the Brzozowska et al, 2016), its methodology rests on form of the practical implementation of industrial general systems theory, cybernetics, modeling, and ecology ideas. The range of logistic flows, covering the human flows and intangible substances, such as knowledge
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