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Level 7 Diploma in Logistics and Supply Chain Management

Environmental Dimensions in Operations

LSC705 · Sustainable Operations Management — Week 2 of 16

CourseLSC705
Week2 of 16
SemesterII
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This week’s topics

Environmental Dimensions in Operations

  1. Carbon footprint reduction and decarbonisation
  2. Resource depletion and circular design
  3. Industrial energy efficiency
  4. Waste minimization and pollution prevention
  5. Leveraging supply chain optimization and visibility to achieve carbon reduction targets
  6. Stanford Webinar - Closing the Loop: The Circular Economy, Business & Sustainability
  7. Webinar: Sustainability in Practice 18 March 2026
  8. Circular Economy - What is Remanufacturing?

What you will be able to do

  • 1.2 Critically assess key dimensions of sustainability incl. environmental, social and economic as well as practices within each context.

Activity

Start with this week’s 4 videos, then: Seminar, guided reading and a short written task: critically assess key dimensions of sustainability incl. environmental, social and economic as well as practices within each context.

Study materials

Videos

  • Leveraging supply chain optimization and visibility to achieve carbon reduction targets · YouTube · MIT Center for Transportation & Logistics · 46 min · for registered students
  • Stanford Webinar - Closing the Loop: The Circular Economy, Business & Sustainability · YouTube · Stanford Online · 59 min · for registered students
  • Webinar: Sustainability in Practice 18 March 2026 · YouTube · TU Delft · 59 min · for registered students
  • Circular Economy - What is Remanufacturing? · YouTube · TU Delft · 5 min · for registered students
  • Electronics repair and the circular economy | Coffee break research at LSE · YouTube · LSE · 20 min · for registered students
  • Rethinking our Disposable Society: how to build a circular economy · YouTube · LSE · 61 min · for registered students
  • MIT SC3x - Circular Economy & Circular Supply Chains · YouTube · MIT Center for Transportation & Logistics · 61 min · for registered students

Further resources

  • Supply Chain Sustainability: A Practical Guide for Continuous Improvement, 2nd ed. (UN Global Compact & BSR, 2015) · PDF · Un, guidance; 76 pages · for registered students
  • UNCTAD Review of Maritime Transport 2025 · PDF · Un, report; 173 pages · for registered students
  • The real climate and transformative impact of ICT: a critique of estimates, trends and re… · PDF · Reading, article · for registered students
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Course plan
  • Week 1: Foundations of Sustainable Operations
  • Week 2: Environmental Dimensions in Operations
  • Week 3: Social and Economic Dimensions
  • Week 4: Drivers of Sustainability Transformation
  • Week 5: Barriers and Challenges to Sustainability
  • Week 6: Sustainability Performance Measurement and Reporting
  • Week 7: Assessing Corporate Sustainability Posture
  • Midterm: Midterm evaluation
  • Week 9: Evaluating Sustainable Operational Practices
  • Week 10: Business Implications of Practice Implementation
  • Week 11: Strategic Integration and Impact Evaluation
  • Week 12: Applying Sustainable Operations Management in practice: cas…
  • Week 13: Assignment workshop: research, planning and referencing
  • Week 14: Assignment workshop: drafting, feedback and improvement
  • Week 15: Review and coursework completion
  • Final: Final assessment and submission
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