Description
Book SynopsisThis book focuses on the crucial sustainability challenge of reducing food waste at the level of consumer-society. Providing an in-depth, research-based overview of the multifaceted problem, it considers environmental, economic, social and ethical factors. Perspectives included in the book address households, consumers, and organizations, and their role in reducing food waste. Rather than focusing upon the reasons for food waste itself, the chapters develop research-based solutions for the problem, providing a much-needed solution-orientated approach that takes multiple perspectives into account.
Chapters 1, 2, 12 and 16 of this book are available open access under a CC BY 4.0 license at link.springer.com
Table of Contents1 Introduction: Solutions for managing food waste
Elina Närvänen, Nina Mesiranta, Malla Mattila and Anna Heikkinen
PART I: Changing the behaviour of actors at distribution and consumption levels
2 Household food waste – how to avoid it? An integrative review
Lisanne van Geffen, Erica van Herpen and Hans van Trijp
3 Nudging in food waste management: Where sustainability meets cost-effectiveness
Anna de Visser-Amundson and Mirella Kleijnen
4 Managerial practices of reducing food waste in supermarkets
Christine Moser
PART II: Connecting actors and activities within systems
5 The evolution of the German anti-food waste movement: Turning sustainable ideas into business
Johanna F. Gollnhofer and Daniel Boller
6 Distributed agency in food waste – A focus on non-human actors in retail setting
Lotta Alhonnoro, Hanna Leipämaa-Leskinen and Henna Syrjälä
7 Between kitchen sink and city sewer: A socio-ecological approach to food waste in environmental design
Ellen Burke and N. Claire Napawan
8 Creating resilient interventions to food waste: Aligning and leveraging systems and design thinking
Danielle Lake, Amy McFarland and Jody Vogelzang
PART III: Constituting socio–cultural meanings
9 Assumptions about consumers in food waste campaigns: A visual analysis
Ulla-Maija Sutinen
10 From scarcity to abundance: Food waste themes and virtues in agrarian and mature consumer society
Outi Uusitalo and Tuomo Takala
11 Mobilising consumers for food waste reduction in Finnish media discourse
Liia-Maria Raippalinna
Part IV: Innovating practical solutions
12 Insect-based bioconversion: Value from food waste
Trevor M. Fowles and Christian Nansen
13 Gleaning: Turning food waste at farms into marketable products
Christine M. Kowalczyk, Brian Taillon and Laura Hearn
14 Exploring food waste reducing apps – A business model lens
Fabio de Almeida Oroski
15 ECOWASTE4FOOD project: Cases for food waste reduction at city and regional levels in the EU
Samuel Féret
16 From measurement to management: Food waste in the Finnish food chain
Hanna Hartikainen, Inkeri Riipi, Juha-Matti Katajajuuri and Kirsi Silvennoinen
