Spatially Differentiated Sustainability Assessment for the Design of Global Supply Chains

摘要: Abstract Supply chains of modern products are often characterized by globally dispersed activities that have ecological, economic, and social impacts. Life cycle-oriented sustainability assessment methods usually aim at compiling the total impacts a product without explicitly considering their spatial distribution. This may be problematic because regional characteristics technology environment ignored opportunities for tradeoffs between local global measures hidden. paper proposes framework spatially differentiated to support design supply chains. The comprises resource flow model links production processes specific locations, multi-scale impact derive indicators, multi-criteria evaluation balancing preferences different stakeholders. An illustrative example shows application this simplified chain beer leads results when alternative structures compared.