Title :
Environmental strategies in the management of transport & logistics sector companies
Author :
Seroka-Stolka, Oksana ; Tomski, Piotr ; Pabian, Aleksander
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Public Health, Czestochowa Univ. of Technol., Czestochowa, Poland
Abstract :
Growing ecological awareness of the society and increasing pressure from stakeholders cause that enterprises face new challenges, also the entities of the transport and logistics sector. This sector considerably brings about emission of pollutants of the natural environment. In the paper there is presented the essence and significance of environmentalism in the activity of enterprises, the importance of the environmental aspect in the operation of transport and logistics companies, the characteristics of well known, in the subject literature. The final part of the paper includes the case study of the Polish company from the transport and logistics sector as a role model of the company responsible for the natural environment, whose development of the environmental strategy brought about market success and competitive advantage in the industry.
Keywords :
air pollution; ecology; logistics; sustainable development; transportation; Polish company; environmental aspect; environmental strategies; natural environment pollutant emission; society ecological awareness; transport & logistics sector company management; Environmental factors; Europe; Face; Logistics; Vehicles; environmental strategy; logistics and transport companies; management; sustainable development;
Conference_Titel :
Advanced Logistics and Transport (ICALT), 2015 4th International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Valenciennes
DOI :
10.1109/ICAdLT.2015.7136607