Overview
- Provides a unified analysis framework for the food waste problem, which includes the three pillars of sustainability and the political and regulatory dimensions
- Presents mapping methods to assess food consumption impacts and provides supply chain models that allow the testing of consumption scenarios
- Discusses emerging technologies (tested at lab scale and/ or pilot scale) and opportunities for the valorization of food waste
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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About this book
This book adds a new dimension to the sustainability assessment of food waste reduction and valorisation: policy analysis. Featuring a transdisciplinary analysis by key experts in the field, it identifies the drivers of change in food-waste reduction and valorisation technologies by looking, for example, at the regulatory framework and at policy actions undertaken by local and global actors.
The book explores the development of regulations and policies for food-waste prevention, management, and valorisation at a global as well as European Union level. It also discusses the notion of food waste in legal terms and investigates the effects of the lack of a standard, universal definition of food waste on the efficient use of by-products, promising processes and products for technological and commercial exploitation.
Utilising mathematical mapping methods to assess food consumption impacts and providing supply chain models that allow the testing of consumption scenarios, thebook goes on to discuss a series of emerging technologies (tested at lab scale and/ or pilot scale) and opportunities for the valorisation of food waste.
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Table of contents (15 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Sustainability Assessment
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Regulation and Policy Analysis
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Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Editors and contributors work at the interface between innovation, agricultural economics, engineering and chemistry, studying from various perspectives innovative waste valorisation activities for sustainability transition to a biobased economy.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Food Waste Reduction and Valorisation
Book Subtitle: Sustainability Assessment and Policy Analysis
Editors: Piergiuseppe Morone, Franka Papendiek, Valentina Elena Tartiu
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-50088-1
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Energy, Energy (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-50087-4Published: 05 May 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-84314-8Published: 08 May 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-50088-1Published: 26 April 2017
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 327
Number of Illustrations: 15 b/w illustrations, 35 illustrations in colour
Topics: Energy Policy, Economics and Management, Sustainable Development, Climate Change/Climate Change Impacts, Waste Management/Waste Technology