Ani Melkonyan

Technische Universität Clausthal | TUC

Being a mountainous country, Armenia has undergone different kinds of natural disasters, such as droughts, floods, and storms, which have a direct influence on economy and are expected to occur more frequently in terms of climate change, raising the need to estimate economic vulnerability especially in agricultural sector. Agriculture plays a great...

In this paper, the dependence of ozone-forming potential on temperature was analysed based on data from two stations (with an industrial and rural background, respectively) in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, for the period of 1983–2007. After examining the interrelations between ozone, NOx and temperature, a projection of the days with ozone excee...

Legislative norms developed at the end of the 1970s, structural changes in the economy, and the implementation of filters in both vehicles and industries improved the air quality of North Rhine-Westphalia, the largest western state in Germany in terms of population and economic output. Because these changes occurred unevenly across the state, the m...

The focus on food supply chain (FSC) sustainability has grown due to demand, food loss and waste, and environmental impacts. This study aims to quantify citrus life cycle costs (LCC) and determine the main drivers and their contributions. LCC was used to assess the cradle-to-grave cost of 1 kg of citrus sold to consumers at the retailer stage. A co...

Due to climate change, extreme weather events will increase in intensity, frequency, and duration in the future, negatively impacting logistics and transport systems. The threat of missing climate targets and a lack of climate adaptivity strategies in the transport sector leads to growing climate-related risks for transportation companies. The pres...

This chapter explores the history of malaria in the Caucasus. Devastating epidemics of Plasmodium vivax ( P. vivax ) were quite common during the early decades of the twentieth century. Aggressive Soviet public health measures helped control outbreaks but the disease persisted until the pesticide DDT became available in the 1950s. As the Soviet Uni...

This chapter explores the population health crises that emerged as a result of the Karabakh conflict in the early 1990s. In addition to malaria, Armenia endured epidemics of measles, diphtheria, hepatitis and tuberculosis during this conflict. Most public services (including public health) collapsed after the disintegration of the USSR. The uncerta...

This chapter provides a chronological overview of the Karabakh conflict, beginning with the development of ethnic violence in the late 1980s and continuing through the collapse of the Soviet Union in the early 1990s. The initial phase of unrest in Karabakh was met with Soviet military aggression, particularly against Armenian villages that were kno...

The Karabakh conflict reignited in the winter of 2020 and a new peace accord transferred several key regions from Armenian to Azeri control. At least 90,000 people were displaced and tensions in the region remain high. This chapter uses data from remote sensing to assess the long-term environmental impact of the Karabakh conflict from the 1990s thr...

The dimensions of the triple bottom-line approach to sustainable development contain inherent conflicting goals in implementation. In cases of urban development around the world, this is exemplary for settings in major port cities. Here, mostly economically oriented infrastructure requirements of the ports meet more comprehensive concerns of sustai...

One of the most protracted post-Soviet conflicts of the 1990s was a territorial dispute between Armenia and Azerbaijan over the contested Karabakh region. Years of ethnic violence led to the displacement of nearly a million refugees, as well as a public health crisis that included epidemics of malaria, diphtheria and other preventable diseases. Mal...

Logistics services support customer-relationship building in the supply chain and help the buying companies establish and maintain a sustainable competitive advantage. To empirically quantify the effect, we introduce the Sustainable Logistics Service Quality (SLSQ) scale and measure the impact of SLSQ on customer satisfaction and relationship quali...

Sustainable urban governance considers the simultaneous reduction of traffic-related pollution, social equity for mobility access, healthy market competition among the service providers, and convenient use of multi-modal transportation enabled by digital technologies. However, the rise of more complex urban systems challenges decision-making proces...

The role of sustainability has made it a vital point to measure companies’ financial performances and sustainability practices along the overall supply chain. Logistics service providers (LSPs) are among the supply chain actors that need to consider sustainability practices to present a better sustainable service. Therefore, we studied LSPs in Egyp...

Background: One of the most protracted post-Soviet conflicts of the 1990s was a territorial dispute between Armenia and Azerbaijan over the contested Karabakh region. Years of ethnic violence led to the displacement of nearly a million refugees, as well as a public health crisis that included epidemics of malaria, diphtheria and other preventable d...

In today’s world, urban systems play an important role in sustainable economic development. In particular, urbanisation trends and the increasing demands of urban mobility place additional pressure on existing transportation infrastructure, and this creates new challenges for urban planners in terms of developing integrated and sustainable urban mo...

For years, the freight forwarding industry has been facing high levels of global competition. Accelerating this development, new and digital competitors are entering the market, striving to make freight logistics even faster, cheaper, and more predictable. Digitalization processes change traditional logistics businesses, leading to more efficient,...

Unter der Überschrift „New Dimensions in Urban Mobility“ befassten sich Forscher in drei Sessions mit der Entwicklung und Bewertung neuer Mobilitätssysteme und den Auswirkungen auf den urbanen Raum. Unter Mobilitätsforschern besteht weitgehend Einigkeit, dass der mobile Mensch in Zukunft mehr und mehr auf intelligentere, besser integrierte und flex...

Current trends related to increased sustainability requirements, the application of new digital technologies, and changes in consumer behavior have disrupted conventional food supply chains, entailing challenges for the last mile logistics and distribution of food products. The main aim of this study is to develop a toolset for exploring the sustai...

Supply chain effectiveness and general societal prosperity, as well as economic and ecological productivity will be highly affected in the next decades, entailing challenges for the supply chain and logistics sector. Thereby this sector plays a significant role within the transformation process of economic systems, yet the capacities of it remain u...

This chapter provides a first overview of the need for an intertwined view of modern logistics services and consumer lifestyles in holistically understood supply chains. The research subjects are placed in the overall context of a necessary transformation into a sustainable economic system. The authors briefly define research gaps and systematicall...

This book has provided research approaches and results for integration of essential socioeconomic and environmental aspects, as well as vital interdependencies of logistics services and sustainable lifestyles, for sustainable production, supply and consumption systems. The research has been focusing on stationary retail, e-commerce, and new forms o...

Regional impact scenarios of climate change show a high risk of supply deadlocks in respect to food security. Moreover, the impact of climate system on food security is induced by consumption systems due to shifting demand patterns within fast urbanization processes. Therefore, the transformational management of food supply chains shows an urgent d...

The complexity of the term sustainability is encouraging both policy makers and industry, to expand their methodology of solving environmental, social, and economic issues. In the field of applied science, sustainability-related research is thematic and policy driven; therefore involving the widest possible range of stakeholders is of importance. H...

In food supply chains, products and services are continuously expanded and adapted according to changing customer demands. As concerns for environmental and social issues within societies grow, sustainable business practices in supply chains are coming to the fore. Altogether customers’ growing demand for local food has led to an increased importan...

This edited volume aims to describe the transformation of supply chain management (SCM) and logistics services by merging sustainable logistics, SCM, sustainable consumption and lifestyle research. This assessment of the transformation potential serves the development of sustainable business models and optimized decision-making systems for achievin...

The design of logistics and transportation systems has long-term effects on the sustainability performance of the supply chain and its operational costs. Competing objectives coupled with deep uncertainty involved in the decision-making problem make it inherently challenging. While optimizing facility locations under certain conditions has been ext...

Societal, economic and ecological prosperity will be highly affected in the next decades due to socio-demographic developments and climate change. The design of more sustainable logistics business types can address such challenges to build more resilient supply chains. Therefore, the discussion with regard to transformational potentials of logistic...

Das vorliegende essential enthält eine Reihe von Tools, welche sich im Rahmen des dreijährigen, BMBF-geförderten Projekts „Innovative Logistik für Nachhaltige Lebensstile (ILoNa)“ als besonders hilfreich für die praktische Umsetzung einer Nachhaltigkeitsstrategie von Logistikunternehmen herausgestellt haben. Eine Besonderheit liegt dabei in der kon...

NaWiKo Synthese Papier der Projekte RegioTransKMU und ILoNa (bei de Projekte wurden mit den Mitteln des Bundesministeriums für Bildung und Forschung unter den Förderkennzeichen 01UT1406B und 01UT1403A gefördert)

To improve food security a conceptual integration beyond the scope of production in the agricultural sector due to examination of critical supply chain system compartments and levels of services (“integrated food production and supply systems”) is proposed. For creating systematic results, a platform integrating various perspectives of experts has...

The companies having implemented sustainability concepts ensure that the sustainability issues are well understood and are acted on. But many of these issues are very complex and firstly they have to be identified. Further, the interrelations among these factors should be clearly defined. So, the main aim of the given study is to identify the facto...

Both practitioners and academics do deal for some time with the challenge of sustainability in respect to logistics and supply chain management (SCM). In both groups the discussion is widely dominated by the possible reactive adjustments of logistics in response to problem-specific issues of our socio-economic system, such as climate change impacts...

Water, energy and food are prerequisites for prosperity and wellbeing of the societies. Despite the strong interlinkages among these sectors decisions for future developments are usually made without sufficient consideration of these interdependencies. The aim of this paper is to reflect on the most fundamental causalities and decision variables wh...

Regional impact scenarios of climate change confirm a high risk of supply deadlocks in respect to the water energy food (WEF) security nexus particularly for arid and semiarid regions. Management strategies addressing the WEF nexus show an urgent demand for truly systemic solutions, also considering effects of interlinked demographic development an...

The mountainous small, landlocked country Armenia with 21 % of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in agricultural sector consistently experiencing natural disasters (such as droughts, floods, storms, which are projected to occur more frequently in the future) is very vulnerable towards climate and its change. For this reason, estimation of agricultural r...

In the given paper the methodology of the forecast of Debed river's monthly sink was studied and with its help the vulnerability of the sink is estimated depending on the changes of climatic factors - air temperature and atmospheric precipitation. Multifactor linear regression analysis was used for the methodology development. Major factors determi...

With 21 % of gross domestic product (GDP) in agricultural sector and having consistently experienced natural disasters (e.g., drought, flood), Armenia is very vulnerable to climate and its change. Given the fact that 63 % of the entire land is planted with grains, this study primarily focuses on the market for wheat flour and bread. Economic welfar...