INNOVATIONS IN THE SPHERE OF GREEN LOGISTICS
For the English abstract and full text of the article please see the attached PDF-File (English version follows Russian version). The work was carried out with the financial support and within the framework of the international educational project of the European Union TEMPUS EcoBRU «Environmental education for Belarus, Russia and the Ukraine» (543707-TEMPUS-1-2013-1-DE-TEMPUS-JPHES). ABSTRACT In the last decade, the scientific researches focused on improvement of environmental friendliness and based on the principles of sustainable development, has been developed in transport sector, and this is «green» logistics. The article presents an overview of the research in this area using as an example foreign and Russian projects. It is shown that the existing approaches, methods and instruments of «green» logistics are scattered, their use leads to making contradictory decisions that do not contribute to a systematic reduction of the harmful impact of transport on the environment. The authors proposed their approach to systematization of principles and methods of «green» logistics, which will allow creating more balanced programs to improve the environmental friendliness and efficiency of transport systems. Keywords: transport, sustainable development, green logistics, logistics, ecology, environment.