Description
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 among 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.
Table of Contents
Food Waste 4.0: An Introduction to Contemporary Food Waste Studies
Christian Reynolds, Tammara Soma, Charlotte Spring, Jordon Lazell
Part I Understanding Modern Food Waste Regimes: Historical, Political Economic and Spiritual Dimensions
1. After Market: Capital, Surplus, and the Social Afterlives of Food Waste
David Boarder Giles
2. The Perfect Storm: A History of Food Waste
Andrew F. Smith
3. Food Waste, Religion and Spirituality: Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Approaches
Tanhum Yoreh and Stephen Scharper
4. Interrogating Waste - The Role of Vastogenesis in 21st Century Capitalism
Jon Cloke
Part II Food Waste (and Loss) along the Food Supply Chain and Institutions
5. Produce loss and waste in Agricultural Production
Lisa K. Johnson
6. Food Waste in Processing and Distribution
Martin Gooch and Abdel Felfel
7. Food Waste (and Loss) at the Retail Level
Felicitas Schneider and Mattias Eriksson
8. Household Food Waste
Kate Parizeau
9. Food Waste in the Service Sector: Key concepts, measurement methods and best practices
Kirsi Silvennoinen, Sampsa Nisonen and Oona Pietiläinen
Part III Overview of Regional Food Waste - Research, Policy, and Legal Approaches
10. Food Waste in the United Kingdom and European Union
Stephen Porter
11. Food Loss and Waste Measurement Methods and Estimates for the United States
Jean Buzby and Claudia Fabiano
12. Apprehending Food Waste in Asia: Policies, Practices and Promising Trends
Marlyne Sahakian, Megha Shenoy, Tammara Soma, Atsushi Watanabe, Ra Yagasa, Dickella Gamaralalage Jagath Permakumara, Chen Liu, Abigail Marie Favis and Czarina Saloma
13. Food Waste in South Africa and Saudi Arabia
Suzan Oelofse, Anton Nahman, Ramy Salem Deeb, Abdul-Sattar Nizami, Mirza Barjess Baig and Christian Reynolds
14. Food waste in Australia and New Zealand
Miranda Mirosa, David Pearson and Christian Reynolds
15. Estimating total and per capita food waste in Brazilian Households: A Scenario Analysis
Glenio Piran Dal’Magro and Edson Talandini
Part IV Methodologies in Food Waste Studies
16. Food Waste Audits, Surveys and New Technologies
Sally Geislar
17. Moving Beyond the What and How much to the Why? Researching food Waste at the Consumer Level
Laura Moreno, Jordon Lazell, Vicki Mavrakis and Belinda Li
18. Applying Behaviour Change Methods to Food Waste
Sandra Davison, Lisanne van Geffen, Erica van Herpen and Anne Sharp
19. All My Relations: Applying Social Innovation and Indigenous Methodology to Challenge the Paradigm of Food Waste
Tammara Soma, Belinda Li, Adrianne Lickers, Sean Geobey and Rafaella Gutierrez
20. Modelling Approaches to Food Waste: Discrete Event Simulation; Machine Learning; Bayesian networks; Agent Based Simulation; and Mass Balance estimation
Cansu Kandemier, Christian Reynolds, Monika Verma, Matthew Grainger, Gavin Stewart, Simone Righi, Simone Piras, Marco Setti, Matteo Vittuari and Tom Quested
Part V Solutions to Food Waste?
21. Surplus Food Redistribution
Jane Midgley
22. Keeping Unavoidable Food Waste in the Food Chain as Animal Feed
Martin Bowman, Christina O’Sullivan and Karen Luyckx
23. From Dumpster Dives to Disco Vibes: The Shifting Shape of Food Waste Activism
Alex Barnard and Marie Mourad
24. The Effects of Labelling, Packaging and the Eating Environment on Consumer-Generated Food Waste
Monica C. Labarge, Sarah Evans, Beth Vallen and Lauren G. Block
25. Upcycling and valorisation of food waste
Mohamed A. Gedi, Vincenzo di Bari, Roger Ibbett, Randa Darwish, Ogueri Nwaiwu, Zainudin Umar, Deepa Agarwal; Richard Worrall, David Gray and Tim Foster
26. Exploring the Potential of Digital Food Waste Prevention in the Restaurant Industry
Jan Mayer and Jaz Hee-jeong Choi
27. Food Waste Management, treatment and disposal options. A review and future considerations
Daniel Hoornweg, Scott Lougheed, Mark Walker, Ramy Salemdeeb, Tammara Soma and Christian Reynolds
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
Scott Lougheed and Charlotte Spring
29. Are You Buying Food Waste? The Roles Technology Can Play in (Re)Designing the Food Retail Experience
Geremy Farr-Wharton, Timur Osadchiy and Peter Lyle
30. A Brief Overview of Current Food Waste Research: The What, Why, How and Future Directions
Jessica Aschemann-Witzel, Ezra Ho and Tammara Soma
31. Challenging hegemonic conceptions of food waste: critical reflections from a food waste activist
Martin Bowman
