Overview
- Provides the latest findings on collective management processes and cooperative initiatives within various sectors
- Offers crucial insights into the building of powerful tools for decision making in cooperative management systems
- Features examples and cases from the agricultural and food security sectors
Part of the book series: Cooperative Management (COMA)
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Table of contents(9 chapters)
About this book
On a more global level the offers insights into how to building powerful tools for decision making, particularly at a time when agriculture and the economy alike are affected by a volatile political, social and economical environment and are forced to undergo major structural changes.
Editors and Affiliations
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Department of Agricultural Economics, School of Agriculture, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece
Konstadinos Mattas
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Business Economics and Management, Mediterrean Agronomic Institute Chania, Chania, Greece
George Baourakis
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School of Production Engineering and Management, Technical University of Crete, Chania, Greece
Constantin Zopounidis
About the editors
George Baourakis is the Director of the Mediterranean Agronomic Institute of Chania, CIHEAM–MAICh since June 2012, and the Studies and Research Coordinator of the Business Economics and Management Department of MAICh since 1989.He has co-ordinated and participated in a large number of EU (FP 4th, 5th, 6th and 7th, INTERREG I, II and III-Archimed, MED, ENPI CBC MED, Tempus, Phare, Life, Lifelong Learning, Leonardo Da Vinci, European Social Fund, etc), international and national-regional research projects. He is an Affiliate Professor in Marketing and Supply Chain Management, at the Centre of Entrepreneurship, Nyenrode University, The Netherlands Business School, while he has been appointed as Distinguished Research Fellow in Food Marketing-Management at several universities. He has published numerous papers in internationally refereed scientific journals, presented extensively at international conferences and authored/co-authored several scientific and academic books and special issues which have been distributed by renowned publishing houses.
Constantin Zopounidis is Professor of Financial Engineering and Operations Research at the Technical University of Crete (Greece), Distinguished Research Professor at Audencia Nantes, School of Management (France), Senior Academician of the Royal Academy of Economics and Financial Sciences of Spain, and President of the Financial Engineering and Banking Society (FEBS). He has edited and authored 70 books with international publishers and more than400 research papers in scientific journals, edited volumes, conference proceedings and encyclopedias, in the areas of finance, accounting, operations research and management science. In recognition of his research work, he has received several awards from international research societies such as the International Society on Multiple Criteria Decision Making, the Decision Sciences Institute, the MOISIL International Foundation, ESCP Europe and the Hellenic Operational Research Society.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Sustainable Agriculture and Food Security
Book Subtitle: Aspects of Euro-Mediteranean Business Cooperation
Editors: Konstadinos Mattas, George Baourakis, Constantin Zopounidis
Series Title: Cooperative Management
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-77122-9
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Business and Management, Business and Management (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG, part of Springer Nature 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-77121-2Published: 07 May 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-08375-5Published: 26 December 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-77122-9Published: 24 April 2018
Series ISSN: 2364-401X
Series E-ISSN: 2364-4028
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 141
Topics: International Business, Agricultural Economics, Agriculture, Sustainability Management, Tourism Management