Sustainable Development Goals and Sustainable Supply Chains in the Post-global Economy

Dr Natalia Yakovleva is a Senior Lecturer in International Business Strategy at Newcastle University Business School, Newcastle University London, UK. She is an Associate Director of Newcastle University Institute for Sustainability, promoting research and collaboration on SDG12 Responsible Consumption and Production. She specialises in research on corporate social responsibility, sustainable business and corporate-community relations. Natalia holds a PhD in Environmental Studies from University of Sunderland, UK and BSc in Economics from Yakutsk State University, Russia. Her current research focuses on the protection of indigenous peoples during industrial projects in the Russian North. Natalia has published in internationally refereed journals such as Nature, Journal of World Business, Journal of Cleaner Production and Journal of Business Ethics. She is an author of the book on Corporate Social Responsibility in the Mining Industries(2005, Taylor & Francis).Dr Regina Frei is a Senior Lecturer in Manufacturing Engineering and Supply Chain Management at the University of Portsmouth, UK. She is a Chartered Engineer, a Member of the Institution of Engineering and Technology (MIET) and the Institute for Supply Management (ISM), and a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA). Regina holds an MSc in Micro-engineering from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL) and a PhD in Distributed Manufacturing and Robotics from the New University of Lisbon, Portugal. Her research interests are in Reverse Supply Chains, Sustainability, Circular Economy and Remanufacturing.  She has recently worked on product returns in retail, with a focus on the ‘buy online, return to store’ scenario, investigating how to streamline the returns processes and make them more circular.Dr Sudhir Rama Murthy is a Research Fellow at Saïd Business School, University of Oxford. He is also an Early Career Research Fellow at the Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship, and a member of the Senior Common Room at St Antony’s College, Oxford. His research interests are in sustainable manufacturing, stakeholder management and responsible business. His recent work is on management frameworks and accounting frameworks in which corporations accommodate the interests of various stakeholders. He was a recipient of the Dr Manmohan Singh Scholarship from St John’s College, University of Cambridge, for his PhD in Engineering. He holds a master’s degree from the Indian Institute of Science. Sudhir's broad motivation is in sustainable industrialisation of the developing world.

• Foreword - Externalities in Supply Chains.- Introduction – Challenges and opportunities for addressing SDGs through sustainable supply chains in the post-global economy.- Part 1. Critical conceptual approaches to building sustainable supply chains for SDGs - Chapter1. Is sustainable supply chain management sustainable? (Paul Nieuwenhuis, Anne Touboulic and Lee Matthews).-  Chapter2. Supply chain management in a degrowth context: the potential contribution of stakeholders (Belén Payán-Sánchez, Miguel Pérez-Valls and José Antonio Plaza-Úbeda).-  Chapter3. The four freedoms-of-movement and distributed manufacturing (Sudhir Rama Murthy, Steve Evans and Joseph Sarkis).- Chapter4. The Spiral Economy: a socially progressive circular economy model? (Alison Ashby, Aline Marian Callegaro, Kemi Adeyeye and Maria Granados).- Chapter5. Linking sustainable supply chain management with the Sustainable Development Goals: indicators, scales and substantive impacts. (Anthony Alexander and Izabela Delabre).- Part 2. Implementation of SDGs through sustainable supply chain management. Chapter6. Streamlined life cycle assessment for the environmental evaluation of products in the supply chain (Dora Ruiz-Méndez and Leonor Patricia Güereca).- Chapter7. Sustainable Development Goals = Corporate Social Responsibility? A critical analysis of interactions in the construction industry supply chains using externalities theory (Ankit Gaur and Diego Vazquez-Brust).- Chapter8. Sustainable reverse supply chains for retail product returns(Regina Frei, Sally-Ann Krzyzaniak and Lisa Jack).- Chapter9. A sustainable supply chain perspective in the transition to circular cities (Carol Mungo and María-Laura Franco-García).- Chapter10. A strategic evaluation framework to assess the sustainability level of industrial parks in the post-global economy (Isabel Kreiner and Maria-Laura Franco-García).- Chapter11. Potential of carbon footprint reduction within retailers: Food waste at Walmart in Mexico (Jorge Carlos Carpio-Aguilar, John Rincón-Moreno and María Laura Franco-García).