Sustainable Food Waste Management
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Environmental Sustainability and Applications".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 November 2022) | Viewed by 10032
Special Issue Editor
Interests: environmental governance; environmental management; sustainable management of resources and waste; systems thinking; (bio)plastics and (bio)plastic packaging waste management; circular economy models; food waste prevention and management; construction components reuse; e-waste repair; waste infrastructure; informal recycling systems; decision-making tool development; sustainability assessment and evaluation
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The increasing amount of food lost or wasted globally represents one of the greatest challenges in promoting resource efficiency and sustainability. Increased population, urbanization, and globalization are likely to increase food demand, effectively leading to an increase in food losses and waste. Therefore, action is needed to ensure that food is managed sustainably at all stages of its lifecycle. A combination of technologies, policies, and management practices aimed at integrating innovation with circularity principles at every stage of the food supply chain and waste management system represents the only pathway to achieving sustainability in this area.
This Special Issue on “Sustainable Food Waste Management” aims to explore, examine, and propose strategies and mechanisms to address food waste management challenges and trade-offs, taking into account whole life considerations. Novel scientific research from across the globe would be incredibly useful in highlighting what the problems are and how we might get them solved, by identifying policies and measures that should be prioritized in order to address the food waste challenge and generate the evidence required to support decision-making.
Dr. Eleni Iacovidou
Guest Editor
References:
- Iacovidou, E. and N. Voulvoulis (2018). "A multi-criteria sustainability assessment framework: development and application in comparing two food waste management options using a UK region as a case study." Environmental Science and Pollution Research 25(36): 35821-35834.
- Schanes, K., K. Dobernig and B. Gözet (2018). "Food waste matters - A systematic review of household food waste practices and their policy implications." Journal of Cleaner Production 182: 978-991.
- Cristóbal, J., V. Castellani, S. Manfredi and S. Sala (2018). "Prioritizing and optimizing sustainable measures for food waste prevention and management." Waste Management 72: 3-16.
- Young, W., S. V. Russell, C. A. Robinson and R. Barkemeyer (2017). "Can social media be a tool for reducing consumers’ food waste? A behaviour change experiment by a UK retailer." Resources, Conservation and Recycling 117: 195-203.
- Aschemann-Witzel, J., I. De Hooge, P. Amani, T. Bech-Larsen and M. Oostindjer (2015). "Consumer-Related Food Waste: Causes and Potential for Action." Sustainability 7(6): 6457.
- Dora, M., D. Van Goubergen, M. Kumar, A. Molnar and X. Gellynck (2014). "Application of lean practices in small and medium-sized food enterprises." British Food Journal 116(1): 125-141.
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Keywords
- sustainability
- food waste management
- food processing
- food policy
- surplus food redistribution
- avoidable food waste
- food strategies
- lean manufacturing
- circularity principles
- decision-making
- waste prevention
- optimization
- multidimensional value
- behavioural change
