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During the last 30 years the environments faced by the business
logistics manager have dramatically increased in complexity. The
integration of logistics processes with organizational strategy,
increasing complexities of partnership/channel relationships, and the
increasingly international scope of business logistics processes are
examples of these complexities. The military logistics literature
addresses complex issues of integrating logistics with strategy and
tactics; co‐ordinating world wide supply operations; co‐ordinating an
industrial base with military needs; and managing cycles of
mobilization, warfare, and demobilization. Summarizes the development of
business logistics thought, reviews the military logistics literature,
and develops insights from the said literature that appear relevant to
business logistics thought.

Several variables are widely regarded as affecting the shippers' transportation choice process. Early analyses of transportation choice by Meyer et and by Friedlaender emphasised rates and inventory costs as important determinants of transportation choice. Later, Ballou and DeHayes discussed the effect of transportation reliability on inventory levels, particularly that variation in delivery times increases inventory levels even when average delivery time remains constant. The Baumol and Vinod model of transportation choice considered freight rates, speed, reliability (variance in speed) as well as loss and damage. Finally, Neuschel recognised the logistics concept requires that the economics of transportation must be balanced with company policies and customer considerations such as manufacturing, warehousing, and customer service.

If humans are to understand and discover ways of addressing complex social and ecological problems, we first need to find intimacy with our particular places and communities. Cultivating a relationship to place often includes a negotiating process that involves both science and sensibility. While science is one key part of an adaptive and resilient society, the cultivation of a renewed sense of place and community is essential as well.Science and Sensibility argues for the need for ecology to engage with philosophical values and economic motivations in a political process of negotiation, with the goal of shaping humans' treatment of the natural world. Michael Vincent McGinnis aims to reframe ecology so it might have greater "trans-scientific" awareness of the roles and interactions among multiple stakeholders in socioecological systems, and he also maintains that deep ecological knowledge of specific places will be crucial to supporting a sustainable society. He uses numerous specific case studies from watershed, coastal, and marine habitats to illustrate how place-based ecological negotiation can occur, and how reframing our negotiation process can influence conservation, restoration, and environmental policy in effective ways

This guide provides definitions or brief explanations of all the major terms and concepts used in the Institutional Analysis and Development (IAD) framework. Also included are terms from the closely related frameworks on local public economies, public service industries, grammar of institutions, and social‐ecological systems (SES).

Within the Institutional Analysis and Development (IAD) framework, the concept of an action situation generalizes a game to allow for endogenous changes in its rules. This article re‐visits this core concept to explore its potential for serving as the foundation for a systematic approach to the construction of more elaborate models of complex policy networks in which overlapping sets of actors have the ability to influence the rules under which their strategic interactions take place. Networks of adjacent action situations can be built on the basis of the seven distinct types of rules that define an action situation or by representing generic governance tasks identified in related research on local public economies. The potential of this extension of the IAD framework is demonstrated with simplified network representations of three diverse policy areas (Maine lobster fisheries, international development assistance, and the contribution of faith‐based organizations to U.S. welfare policy).