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Green Business: Hot Topic for IGI Global Editor

By IGI Global on Apr 27, 2011
Environmental concern is growing globally, while at the same time business around the world are finding that incorporating green methods into their practices can save them money. "Sustainability has emerged as a factor in determining which companies win in the marketplace, and smart CEOs are investing in a more rigorous approach to the environment," said Daniel C. Esty, an environmental policy professor at Yale Law School, according to a recent article in Bloomberg Businessweek. A steady stream of research is necessary to help CEOs and other business leaders learn how to keep their businesses both green and efficient. Zongwei Luo, Ph.D., of the University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, has published several publications with IGI Global on these topics, with a particular focus on supply chain management.

Dr. Luo contends that, "Green, or environmentally friendly, often refers to goods and services considered to inflict minimal or no harm on the environment. The world now is at the point to pursue a low carbon development roadmap that would eventually decouple economic growth from greenhouse gas and other polluting emissions, through technological and business innovations. Worldwide, the supply chain sector is among the top three largest carbon emission contributors. Supply chain management undoubtedly shall undertake the burden of facilitating this carbon emission reduction by pursuing a low carbon supply chain management practice. The unanimous global pursuit of a sustainable environment has called for advocating the grand challenge of low carbon supply chain management research for business and technology innovation to pave the foundation for a low carbon economy."

The most recent publication edited by Dr. Luo, Green Finance and Sustainability: Environmentally-Aware Business Models and Technologies, is devoted to examining a range of major issues concerning green finance and sustainability clustered into five sections on emerging environmentally aware business models: regulation and standard development, green ICT for sustainability, green finance and the carbon market, green manufacturing, logistics and SCM, and regional low carbon development. This book appears at the right time for the field and is written to bring insights and enlarge researchers' view into this urgent and import field. For more information on this title, please visit www.igi-global.com/Bookstore/TitleDetails.aspx?TitleId=45895.Green Finance and Sustainability: Environmentally-Aware Business Models and Technologies


Another related forthcoming publication edited by Dr. Luo, Advanced Analytics for Green and Sustainable Economic Development: Supply Chain Models and Financial Technologies, is tentatively scheduled to be released this fall. This reference will focus on the development of innovative techniques and tools that answer urgent questions in the global trend of sustainable economic development. This book will be useful to professionals, researchers, and policymakers working in various disciplines including business and economy, science and engineering, social sciences, government policy, and legal studies. Chapters in this work will also provide a valuable resource for business managers concerned with the development of green business and application of low carbon practices. For more information on this title, please visit www.igi-global.com/bookstore/titledetails.aspx?titleid=52734.

The International Journal of Applied Logistics (IJAL) is an essential journal for which Dr. Luo serves as Editor-in-Chief. This journal disseminates supply chain management and applied logistic theories, technology development, innovation, and transformation in various economy sectors upon current, advancing technological opportunities and market imperatives. This journal addresses the latest academic research and industry practices on emerging enabling technologies including RFID, innovations in logistics and supply chain management, and transformations of a more efficient economy. For more information on IJAL, please visit www.igi-global.com/ijal.

About Dr. Zongwei Luo:

Dr. Zongwei Luo is a senior researcher at the E-Business Technology Institute at the University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China. Before that, he was working at the IBM TJ Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, New York, USA. He also served as the Affiliate Senior Consultant to ETI Consulting Limited. His research has been supported by various funding sources, including China NSF, HKU seed funding, HK RGC, and HK ITF. His research results have appeared in major international journals and leading conferences, and he serves as an associate editor and editorial advisory board member in many international journals. Dr. Luo's recent interests include applied research and development in the area of service science and computing, innovation management and sustainable development, technology adoption and risk management, and e-business model and practices, especially for logistics and supply chain management.

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