WORKSHOP: Role of the Environmental Manager in Greening Transportation
March 16, 2009 by John Morelli , Brian Butler | Filed under: The EM Role in Greening Transportation
This workshop description was sent by Dr. James Winebrake, who will moderate the workshop.
The breadth of concerns for environmental managers is quickly expanding. Firms interested in their sustainability profile are now looking beyond their own environmental performance and are considering the environmental attributes of their logistics supply and distribution chains. This workshop topic will explore issues related with the roles and responsibilities of the environmental manager in this context, as well as the tools and methodologies that are available to help environmental managers meet these responsibilities.
The workshop will include presentations by several speakers on green logistics and a discussion with audience participants on the role of the environmental manager in these topics.
Dr. Winebrake has suggested the following papers as resources for this topic:
Sustainable Goods Movement Designing the Green Supply Chain The Green Supply Chain From Reversed Logistics to Green Supply Chain Green Supply-Chain Management: A State-of-the-Art Literature Review Sarkis, Joseph. “A strategic decision framework for green supply chain management”. Journal of Cleaner Production. Volume 11, Issue 4, June 2003, Pages 397-409. Published by Elsevier. (Journal of Cleaner Production at Science Direct: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/09596526) James J. Winebrake, Ph.D.Professor and Chair, STS/Public Policy Department
Rochester Institute of Technology
Professor James J. Winebrake, Ph.D. is Chair of the Department of Science, Technology, & Society/Public Policy and co-Director of the Laboratory for Environmental Computing and Decision Making at Rochester Institute of Technology in Rochester, NY.
Dr. Winebrake focuses his research on solving problems related to energy security, environmental quality, and transportation. Most recently, Dr. Winebrake has published on a wide-range of issues related to the environmental impacts of goods movement, including: health risk assessments of ocean-going vessels, total fuel-cycle analyses of low sulfur and alternative marine fuels, and cost-effectiveness of emissions reduction technologies and policies. Dr. Winebrake received a B.S. in Physics from Lafayette College, a M.S. in Technology and Policy from M.I.T., and a Ph.D. in Energy Management and Policy from the University of Pennsylvania.