Strategic design of environmentally and socially sustainable supply networks

The five published articles of this cumulative dissertation deal with the design of supply networks on a strategic level and with a special focus on the operationalization of environmental and social indicators - addressing 16 of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Based on, inter alia, case studies on Waste Electric and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) as well as lignocellulosic, second-generation bioethanol production in the EU, this work provides best-practice approaches on how to integrate results from applied Industrial Ecology methods (LCA, S-LCA) into Operations Research models (here: multi-objective mixed-integer linear programming). Beside methodological contributions, the dissertation provides insights for policy-makers, practitioners, and academia in terms of environmental, social, and economic benefits and risks of WEEE recovery and second-generation bioethanol production in the EU.