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Source: Adapted from European Union, EMAS III Standard. The implementation of an environmental management system (EMS) within a transportation or logistics service provider requires several steps:

Source: Map by John G. Bartholomew, An Atlas of Economic Geography (1914), London: Oxford University Press. By the early 20th century, a global system of maritime and rail routes had been established, but the connectivity and accessibility it provided were far from being uniform. This lack of uniformity reflected economic

Source: Adapted from the Ellen MacArthur Foundation. The conventional organization of supply chains is linear, involving a sequence from suppliers, manufacturers, and distributors to the user. Despite the perceived efficiency of manufacturing and freight distribution, the consumption and use of material goods are associated with high waste levels. More than half

The above map provides a synthetic representation of how an (influenza) pandemic could spread through a global transportation network. This scenario assumes a virulent strain of influenza in the line of the Spanish Flu (H1N1) with an incubation phase of about 3 to 4 days, which can easily be anthropogenically

Prior to the second half of the 20th century (curve A), international transportation systems were remarkably slow since they were limited to sailship or steamship speeds. Even with rail, North America could not be crossed in less than a week. In such a setting, a pandemic could emerge in a

Source: http://www.google.org/flutrends/ The flu is an endemic disease, but its prevalence increases substantially during what is commonly called the “flu season”, roughly between October and March in the United States (Northern hemisphere) and between March and October in Australia (Southern hemisphere). The Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) uses