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,Environmental Sustainability Trade-Offs in a Product’s Supply Chain, the resource exploitation, direction of investments, technological development, and institutional change are all in balance and enable meeting human needs in current and future generations. Sustainability is generally defined through the three interrelated pillars of environment, economic, and soci

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Renewable Energy Sourcing,ricity is sourced by utility firms in the USA, consumers are also increasingly sourcing renewable electricity by investing in rooftop solar panels. An emerging trend is corporate sourcing of renewable energy: Several corporations, including Apple, Google, IKEA, and Walmart, have committed to source

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Supply Chain Transparency at Goodio Chocolate,ki-based craft chocolate maker, is used as the basis of discussion. To create a transparent supply chain requires a company to both disclose information to consumers and gain visibility into its supply chain. We explore both topics in this chapter. First, regarding the disclosure of information to c

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Auditing, Inspections, and Testing for Social Responsibility in Supply Networks,ly chain partners. Specifically, studies have examined the auditing of suppliers for noncompliance of socially responsible practices and the inspection and/or testing of products for social responsibility violations. In this chapter, we examine this stream of literature and summarize its main insigh

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Improving Crop Yields Through Better Planting Schedules,all uncertainty. In our computational study, we use field weather data from Southern Africa in a real size large-scale problem and demonstrate significant relative crop production advantage of the optimal planting schedule over commonly used heuristics in practice.

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Value Chain Innovations to Foster Development, global extreme poverty as those living on $1.90 or less a day. In 2015, 9.6% of the world’s population lived under such a definition of extreme poverty. So our focus should be on how to address the needs and also help improve the welfare of the people in these economies.

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Supply Chain Transparency at Goodio Chocolate,the challenges of supply chain visibility, we present examples from practice of innovative methods companies are using to gain visibility into their supply chains. We conclude the chapter by outlining potential future research directions for the topic of supply chain transparency.