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Waste Management 30 (2010) 1860–1870 Contents lists available at ScienceDirect Waste Management journal homepage: /locate/wasman Waste biomass-to-energy supply chain management: A critical synthesis E. Iakovou *, A. Karagiannidis, D. Vlachos, A. Toka, A. Malamakis Department of Mechanical Engineering, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 54124 Thessaloniki, Greece a r t i c l e i n f o a b s t r a c t Article history: The development of renewable energy sources has clearly emerged as a promising policy towards Received 27 May 2009 enhancing the fragile global energy system with its limited fossil fuel resources, as well as for reducing Accepted 22 February 2010 the related environmental problems. In this context, waste biomass utilization has emerged as a viable Available online 15 March 2010 alternative for energy production, encompassing a wide range of potential thermochemical, physico- chemical and bio-chemical processes. Two significant bottlenecks that hinder the increased biomass uti- lization for energy production are the cost and complexity of its logistics operations. In this manuscript, we present a critical synthesis of the relative state-of-the-art literature as this applies to all stakeholders involved in the design and management of waste biomass supply chains (WBSCs). We