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Best Practices in Green Supply Chain Management uses present case studies from the Indian and Mexican manufacturing industries to offer new insights on the challenges of integrating environmental awareness into supply chain management operations in developing countries.

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Meeting consumer needs and desires, while promoting cleaner production and sustainable consumption, is one of the greatest challenges facing industry today. Addressing poverty and environmental degradation requires changing how global organizations produce and distribute goods and how people and organizations consume and dispose of them. It requires a more efficient use of resources, together with action-oriented thinking but raises a range of highly specific challenges for organizations operating in emerging economies. 

This volume outlines best practices in sustainable supply chain management in developing countries. It discusses the definition of sustainability and the issue of sustainable development in developing countries, various factors involved in industrial growth, and the concept of sustainable supply chain management; the origin of supply chains and the concepts, ideas, and methodologies involved, gaps in the research field, and research on sustainability practices in developing countries; the measurement of sustainability in supply chains, with discussion of a study of the Indian manufacturing sector; a qualitative approach to sustainable supply chain management, with analysis of electricity generation in Mexico; case studies related to sustainable supply chain issues in Indian organizations; and a case study of the Mexican auto industry.

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