Sustainable Consumption, Production and Supply Chain Management

Paul Nieuwenhuis, formerly Co-Director, Centre for Automotive Industry Research and Electric Vehicle Centre of Excellence, Cardiff University, Daniel Newman, Senior Lecturer, Cardiff Law School, Cardiff University and Anne Touboulic, Associate Professor in Operations Management, Nottingham University Business School, University of Nottingham, UK

• Contents: 1. Introduction to Sustainable Consumption, Production and Supply Chain Management PART I UNSUSTAINABLE CONSUMPTION 2. Sustainable consumption: an intractable problem? 3. Learning from the crisis 4. A transition phase: ‘reconfiguration’ 5. Consumption and our place in nature 6. A new role for marketing? 7. Unsustainable consumption: conclusions PART II UNSUSTAINABLE PRODUCTION 8. Economies of scale and the roots of mass production 9. Importance of mass car production 10. Origins of mass production: summary 11. Europe takes the technology lead: the case of Citroën 12. The death of craft production: Ford and Budd’s impact on the French car industry 13. Mass production in food 14. Unsustainable production: conclusions PART III SUPPLY WEBS: LINKING PRODUCTION AND CONSUMPTION 15. Toyotism: mass production adopts supply-chain thinking 16. Building sustainable supply chains 17. Learning from natural supply systems: towards ecological supply chain management 18. Supply webs: conclusions PART IV ARE WE GETTING ANY CLOSER TO SUSTAINABLE CONSUMPTION, PRODUCTION AND SUPPLY WEBS? 19. Solutions? 20. Is population really a problem? 21. Will innovation save us? 22. Alternatives to mass production 23. Conclusions: SCP and SSCM – an elusive vision? References Index