Food Waste Management: Solving the Wicked Problem

by Elina Närvänen, Nina Mesiranta, Malla Mattila, Anna Heikkinen

Overview

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

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783030205607
Publisher:	Springer International Publishing
Publication date:	09/04/2019
Edition description:	1st ed. 2020
Pages:	455
Product dimensions:	5.83(w) x 8.27(h) x 0.00(d)

About the Author

Elina Närvänen is University Lecturer of Marketing at the Faculty of Management and Business (MAB), Tampere University, Finland. She is the leader of the Wastebusters research project. Her research has been published in the Journal of Cleaner Production, Journal of Service Management, European Journal of Marketing, and Consumption Markets & Culture.

Nina Mesiranta is Postdoctoral Researcher at MAB, Tampere University, Finland. She has published in the Journal of Cleaner Production, Time & Society, Journal of Fashion Marketing and Management, Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services, and Advances in Consumer Research.

Malla Mattila is University Instructor (Master’s Degree Programme in Leadership for Change) at MAB, Tampere University, Finland. She has published her research in such scholarly periodicals as Time & Society, Journal of Cleaner Production, IMP Journal, and International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Innovation Management.

Anna Heikkinen is Senior Research Fellow at MAB, Tampere University, Finland. Her work has been published in edited volumes and international journals, such as the Journal of Business Ethics, Business Communication Quarterly, and International Journal of Knowledge Management Studies.

Table of Contents

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

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

“This book approaches a most relevant and complex societal problem: the management of food waste. Its multidisciplinary perspective as well as the variety of theoretical perspectives and practical insights provides interesting and innovative contributions. It delivers insight into and reflection of the different levels where change is needed such as actors at the distribution and consumption levels, systems and socio-cultural and institutional structures. Reduction of global food waste is not only important, but necessary for the development towards a sustainable society and the book deserves to be read by not only researchers, but consumers, retailers, industry and politicians.” (Karin M. Ekström, Professor of Marketing University of Borås, Sweden)