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Food Waste Reduction and Valorisation

Sustainability Assessment and Policy Analysis

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Editors:
  1. Piergiuseppe Morone

    1. Department of Law and Economics, Unitelma Sapienza, Rome, Italy

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  2. Franka Papendiek

    1. Leibniz Centre for Agriculture, Müncheberg, Germany

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  3. Valentina Elena Tartiu

    1. University of Graz, Graz, Austria

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  • 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

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Table of contents (15 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-viii
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  2. Sustainability Assessment

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Introduction

      • James Clark
      Pages 3-6

    3. Cutting Through the Challenge of Improving the Consumer Experience of Foods by Enabling the Preparation of Sustainable Meals and the Reduction of Food Waste

      • Wayne Martindale
      Pages 7-23

    4. The Economic Case for the Circular Economy: From Food Waste to Resource

      • Corrado Topi, Magdalena Bilinska
      Pages 25-41

    5. Decreasing Greenhouse Gas Emissions of Meat Products Through Food Waste Reduction. A Framework for a Sustainability Assessment Approach

      • Thomas Winkler, Ralf Aschemann
      Pages 43-67

    6. Fodder Legumes for Green Biorefineries: A Perspective for Sustainable Agricultural Production Systems

      • Franka Papendiek
      Pages 69-78

    7. Municipal Waste Treatment, Technological Scale up and Commercial Exploitation: The Case of Bio-waste Lignin to Soluble Lignin-like Polymers

      • Enzo Montoneri
      Pages 79-120

    8. Techno-Economic Study and Environmental Assessment of Food Waste Based Biorefinery

      • Aude Pommeret, Xiaofeng Yang, Tsz Him Kwan, Elias A. Christoforou, Paris A. Fokaides, Carol Sze Ki Lin
      Pages 121-146

    9. Techno-Economic Evaluation of Refining of Food Supply Chain Wastes for the Production of Chemicals and Biopolymers

      • Anestis Vlysidis, Apostolis Koutinas, Ioannis Kookos
      Pages 147-164

  3. Regulation and Policy Analysis

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 165-165
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    2. Bio-Based Economy: Policy Framework and Foresight Thinking

      • Luana Ladu, Rainer Quitzow
      Pages 167-195

    3. Bringing a Sharing Economy Approach into the Food Sector: The Potential of Food Sharing for Reducing Food Waste

      • Pasquale Marcello Falcone, Enrica Imbert
      Pages 197-214

    4. Defining the Meaning of Food Waste as a Matter of Urgency

      • Monica Delsignore, Margherita Ramajoli, Carola Ricci
      Pages 215-233

    5. Waste Reduction in Fresh Food Supply Chains: An Operations Research Approach

      • Gabriella Dellino, Renato Mari, Carlo Meloni
      Pages 235-259

    6. Participatory Planning in Organic Solid Waste Management: A Backcasting Approach

      • Roberta Sisto, Edgardo Sica, Mariarosaria Lombardi, Maurizio Prosperi
      Pages 261-278

    7. The Role of Social Networks in the Diffusion of Bio-Waste Products: The Case of Mulching Films Derived from Organic Waste in Province of Foggia

      • Angela Barbuto, Antonio Lopolito, Myriam Anna Scaringelli, Giacomo Giannoccaro
      Pages 279-301

    8. Grassroots Innovations and the Transition Towards Sustainability: Tackling the Food Waste Challenge

      • Valentina Elena Tartiu, Piergiuseppe Morone
      Pages 303-327
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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, the book 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.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Law and Economics, Unitelma Sapienza, Rome, Italy

    Piergiuseppe Morone

  • Leibniz Centre for Agriculture, Müncheberg, Germany

    Franka Papendiek

  • University of Graz, Graz, Austria

    Valentina Elena Tartiu

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

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