International Journal of Environmental Protection and Policy

Special Issue

Green Procurement and Mechanism Design

  • Submission Deadline: May 20, 2015
  • Status: Submission Closed
  • Lead Guest Editor: Xiaoyu Liu
About This Special Issue
Green procurement can be defined as the pursuit of environmental sustainability through the purchasing and supply process. Interest in environmentally friendly supply chain management has been rising on government, industrial stakeholder, and academic agendas in recent years. In spite of the increasing attention, there have been criticisms that green procurement is less cost efficient, and that high-cost companies perform a larger share of work, and the costs of procurement increase. Practitioners with an interest in this area always have to sift through a surfeit of information. Consider also apparent paradoxes between preferential mechanism and environmental protection, such as the emission impacts of just-in-time supply, stakeholder credibility, post-evaluation and monitoring, and short-term gains at the expense of lifecycle environmental loss. This special issue aims to bring together articles from across the spectrum of green procurement mechanism research, collating the latest research and thinking in the field. Academic articles are invited in (but not limited to) the following areas:

1. Preferential mechanism design in green procurement;
2. Life cycle environmental impact analysis of supply chains;
3. Design and analysis of environmental management systems and carbon reduction programs;
4. Aligning green supply chain strategy with corporate strategy;
5. The role of stakeholders in the green procurement process.
Lead Guest Editor
  • Xiaoyu Liu

    Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park, United States