ABSTRACT
This chapter explores a number of practical actions and strategies businesses, governments, and communities can adopt in creating more sustainable economic and commercial arrangements. A supply chain is a system including businesses, information, and resources linking raw materials, components, or services from a supplier to a business that fashions them into an end product and then delivers them to the end customer. Sustainable supply chain management is clearly a complex activity requiring a conscientious and critical appreciation of ecological and ethically focused business practices. A wide range of eco-labelled products exhibit ‘green’, ‘biological’, ‘organic’, ‘fairtrade’, or ‘sustainable’ symbols or claims. The US Green Business Network, like others with similar titles in different countries and regions, help a growing numbers of businesses, investors, and consumers make connections and share good practice. For all the global reporting initiative and other schemes’ failings, many businesses have become more sensitive to the need to act in a socially responsible and sustainable manner.
