Volume 26, Issue 1, August 2016, Pages 47–64
Cintia Machado de Oliveira1, Márcio de Almeida D’Agosto2, Rodrigo de Alvarenga Rosa3, and Fabiana do Couto Assumpção4
1 Transport Engineering Program, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil
2 Transport Engineering Program, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil
3 Postgraduate Program in Civil Engineering, Federal University of Espírito Santo, Vitória, ES, Brazil
4 Transport Engineering Program, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil
Original language: English
Copyright © 2016 ISSR Journals. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
This article presents a systematic literature review, whose main objective is to identify the concepts of green logistics, sustainable logistics and low carbon logistics and to point out the peculiarities, similarities and/or differences among them. As secondary objectives, this article sought to identify other terms associated with similar practices to the ones represented by the discussed terms. We conclude that low carbon logistics has a more limited scope, considering only CO2 reduction, while green logistics extends this scope, including other environmental aspects and sustainable logistics is the most comprehensive concept, but the least explored by researchers.
Author Keywords: green logistics, sustainable logistics, low carbon logistics, systematic literature review and freight transport.
Cintia Machado de Oliveira1, Márcio de Almeida D’Agosto2, Rodrigo de Alvarenga Rosa3, and Fabiana do Couto Assumpção4
1 Transport Engineering Program, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil
2 Transport Engineering Program, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil
3 Postgraduate Program in Civil Engineering, Federal University of Espírito Santo, Vitória, ES, Brazil
4 Transport Engineering Program, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil
Original language: English
Copyright © 2016 ISSR Journals. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Abstract
This article presents a systematic literature review, whose main objective is to identify the concepts of green logistics, sustainable logistics and low carbon logistics and to point out the peculiarities, similarities and/or differences among them. As secondary objectives, this article sought to identify other terms associated with similar practices to the ones represented by the discussed terms. We conclude that low carbon logistics has a more limited scope, considering only CO2 reduction, while green logistics extends this scope, including other environmental aspects and sustainable logistics is the most comprehensive concept, but the least explored by researchers.
Author Keywords: green logistics, sustainable logistics, low carbon logistics, systematic literature review and freight transport.
How to Cite this Article
Cintia Machado de Oliveira, Márcio de Almeida D’Agosto, Rodrigo de Alvarenga Rosa, and Fabiana do Couto Assumpção, “Low Carbon Logistics, Green Logistics & Sustainable Logistics: Establishing Concepts and Scope,” International Journal of Innovation and Scientific Research, vol. 26, no. 1, pp. 47–64, August 2016.
