This question opens up significant space for monitoring how supply chain and production systems are reconstituted over the next few months and whether the preponderant tendency is toward global or local sourcing. Or perhaps we are looking to a future characterized by some new alternative that we can hardly at this stage begin to envisage.
What will be the impacts of this rebuilding process on greenhouse-gas emissions and the environmental footprint of supply and production more generally?
What will be the implications for employment and industrial structures? Second, how will firms manage their inventories of essential items in the months and years ahead?
With larger supplies on hand, even when there is no immediate need, facilities will be needed for storage. Will supply-chain resilience require excess capacities of all materials and will there be greater energy and waste losses from excess inventory? Finally, the response of organizations to these questions will be influenced by individual behavior.
We have made a number of possible conjectures related to prospective changes, but how many of them will come to pass? Will we see less demand for goods and services? Will people travel less? Will they live more simply with a prevailing make-do-and-mend attitude or will they upskill to facilitate a redeployment of labor? What are the consequences of these changes for sustainability transitions? These and many other questions provide opportunities for future research.
For instance, economist Dani Rodrik contends that the COVID pandemic is unlikely to result in major deviation from pre-existing trends. From this vantage point, we will see the continuing decline of neoliberalism, the expansion of authoritarianism, and the ongoing struggle of left-leaning progressive politics to resonate with disaffected publics. Over time, we could also see this capability combined with telemedicine to reduce the need to transport people over long distances for specialized health services.
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This article has been cited by other articles in PMC. Introduction As members of the Future Earth Knowledge-Action Network on Systems of Sustainable Consumption and Production we have — as virtually everyone else — paid close attention to the COVID pandemic which is one of the most comprehensive and tragic public health crises in a century.
Crises and institutional change The public health crisis has impelled — and will likely continue to drive — a global economic catastrophe.
Sustainable supply and production in response to the COVID pandemic Mandates imposed by governments and other responses to the COVID pandemic provide some initial indications of longer-term actions on the part of policy makers, business managers, and others interested in sustainable supply and production as well as the prospects of sustainability transitions more generally. Behavioral changes Current practices due to the COVID pandemic such as sheltering in place and social distancing have profound implications.
Localization We can expect that the COVID pandemic will prompt business managers and policy makers to re-examine prevailing globalized systems of production based on complex value chains and the international shipment of billions of components and likely prompt establishment of new relationships and supply configurations.
Distancing and technology New advances in digital automation and cyber-physical systems are enabling the implementation of decentralized manufacturing operations.
Data and information responses While a full assessment is not yet available, initial evidence suggests that many countries have encountered profound challenges during the COVID pandemic determining the availability of medical supplies and moving them to locations of most pressing need.
Conclusion: a few research questions and opportunities The world is in the midst of one of the most globally disruptive events in several generations. Footnotes 1 This perspective is not universally shared. References Baumer-Cardoso M. Simulation-based analysis of catalyzers and trade-offs in lean and Green manufacturing. Cleaner Prod. Robots welcome to take over, as pandemic accelerates automation. The New York Times. Industry 4. European Commission; Brussels: The European Green Deal.
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