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1 online resource (xxx, 450 pages) |
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Routledge handbooks |
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Routledge handbooks.
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| Contents |
Food waste: an introduction to contemporary food waste studies -- Part I: Understanding modern food waste regimes: historical, economic, and spiritual dimensions -- 1. After market: capital, surplus, and the social afterlives of food waste -- 2. The perfect storm: a history of food waste -- 3. Food waste, religion, and spirituality: Jewish, Christian, and Muslim approaches -- 4. Interrogating waste: vastogenic regimes in the 21st century -- Part II: Food waste (and loss) along the food supply chain and institutions -- 5. Produce loss and waste in agricultural production -- 6. Food loss and waste in processing and distribution -- 7. Food waste (and loss) at the retail level -- 8. Household food waste -- 9. Food waste in the service sector: key concepts, measurement methods and best practices -- Part III: Overview of regional food waste: research, policy, and legal approaches -- 10. Food waste in the UK and EU: a policy and practice perspective -- 11. Food loss and waste measurement methods and estimates for the United States -- 12. Apprehending food waste in Asia: policies, practices and promising trends -- 13. Food waste within South Africa and Saudi Arabia -- 14. Food waste in Australia and New Zealand -- 15. Estimating total and per capita food waste in Brazilian households: a scenario analysis -- Part IV: Methodologies in food waste studies -- 16. Quantifying food waste: food waste audits, surveys, and new technologies -- 17. Moving beyond the 'what' and 'how much' to the 'why' : researching food waste at the consumer level -- 18. Applying behaviour change methods to food waste -- 19. All my relations: applying social innovation and Indigenous methodology to challenge the paradigm of food waste -- 20. Modelling approaches to food waste: discrete event simulation; machine learning; Bayesian networks; agent-based modelling; and mass balance estimation -- Part V: Solutions to food waste? -- 21. Surplus food redistribution -- 22. Keeping unavoidable food waste in the food chain as animal feed -- 23. From dumpster dives to disco vibes: the shifting shape of food waste activism -- 24. The effects of labelling, packaging and the eating environment on consumer-generated food waste -- 25. Upcycling and valorisation of food waste -- 26. Exploring the potential of digital food waste prevention in the restaurant industry -- 27. Food waste management, treatment and disposal options: a review and future considerations -- Part VI: Debates in food waste studies and looking ahead -- 28. Conduits that bite back: challenging the 'win-win' solutions of food recalls and redistribution -- 29. Are you buying food waste?: The roles technologies can play in (re)designing the food retail experience -- 30. A brief overview of current food waste research: the what, why, how and future directions -- 31. Challenging hegemonic conceptions of food waste: critical reflections from a food waste activist |
| Summary |
"This comprehensive Handbook represents a definitive state of the current art and science of food waste from multiple perspectives. The issue of food waste has emerged in recent years as a major global problem. Recent research has enabled greater understanding and measurement of loss and waste throughout food supply chains, shedding light on contributing factors and practical solutions. This book includes perspectives and disciplines ranging from agriculture, food science, industrial ecology, history, economics, consumer behaviour, geography, theology, planning, sociology and environmental policy amongst others. The Routledge Handbook of Food Waste addresses new and ongoing debates around systemic causes and solutions, including behaviour change, social innovation, new technologies, spirituality, redistribution, animal feed, and activism. The chapters describe and evaluate country case studies, waste management, treatment, prevention, and reduction approaches, and compares research methodologies for better understanding food wastage. This book is essential reading for the growing number of food waste scholars, practitioners and policy makers interested in researching, theorising, debating and solving the multifaceted phenomenon of food waste"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Christian Reynolds is a Knowledge Exchange Research Fellow in the Department of Geography, University of Sheffield, a Technical Specialist in international food sustainability at WRAP, UK, and an adjunct Research Fellow at the Barbara Hardy Institute for Sustainable Environments and Technologies, University of South Australia. His research examines the economic and environmental impacts of food consumption; with focus upon food waste, and sustainable, healthy, and affordable diets. Tammara Soma is an Assistant Professor in Planning at the School of Resource and Environmental Management at Simon Fraser University. She is the Research Director and also the Co-Founder of the Food Systems Lab, the first social innovation lab to address the issue of food waste and food insecurity in Canada. Charlotte Spring is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Calgary. Her PhD compared UK surplus food redistribution as charitable and activist practice. She has also undertaken considerablecampaign work focusing critically on the relationships between food wastage and food insecurity. Jordon Lazell is a Researcher at the Centre for Business in Society in the Faculty of Business and Law at Coventry University, UK. His research concerns sustainable consumption and production practices with a specific interest in food waste |
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Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on January 24, 2020) |
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Food waste.
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Food waste -- Prevention
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Waste (Economics)
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Food waste
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Waste (Economics)
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Voedselvoorziening.
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Duurzame ontwikkeling.
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| Genre/Form |
handbooks.
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Handbooks and manuals.
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Guides et manuels.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Reynolds, Christian, editor
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| LC no. |
2019035954 |
| ISBN |
9780429462795 |
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0429462794 |
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0429870698 |
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9780429870705 |
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0429870701 |
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9780429870699 |
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