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This 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

Food Waste Management: Solving the Wicked Problem

1        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