Sitepu, M, McKay, A and Holt, RJ (2016) Towards a framework for sustainable development planning in the Indonesian natural rubber industry supply network. In: Procedia CIRP. 23rd CIRP Conference on Life Cycle Engineering, 22-24 May 2016, Berlin, Germany. Elsevier , pp. 164-169.
Abstract
Supply networks for natural resources such as rubber present significant opportunities to deliver global sustainability goals by reducing environmental, social and economic impacts of industrial activities. This research is using the Indonesian natural rubber industry as a case study. Early discussions with stakeholders highlighted a need for decision support tools to facilitate sustainability-related trade-offs in industry-wide and firm-level planning processes. The example used in this paper relates to rubber plantation replanting programmes and a three-way trade-off between customers’ needs for a steady flow of rubber, an industry need to improve its environmental sustainability and rubber plantation owners’ needs to maintain their financial sustainability which, in turn, influences social sustainability. An initial framework for sustainable development planning based on the case study and literature is proposed, and its use in the design of a computational simulation experiment using hybrid simulation models to predict the sustainability impacts of alternative replanting scenarios is reported.
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Item Type: | Proceedings Paper |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2016 Published by Elsevier B.V This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). |
Keywords: | sustainable development; sustainable supply network; sustainability assessment; natural rubber. |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Engineering & Physical Sciences (Leeds) > School of Mechanical Engineering (Leeds) > Institute of Engineering Systems and Design (iESD) (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 16 May 2016 08:53 |
Last Modified: | 11 Apr 2018 12:54 |
Published Version: | https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.procir.2016.03.142 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Elsevier |
Identification Number: | 10.1016/j.procir.2016.03.142 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:98826 |
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