Food Waste at Consumer Level: A Comprehensive Literature Review

ISBN-13: 9783319788869 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 64 str.

Ludovica Principato

Opis

This book presents what is the state-of-the-art in the field of the food waste phenomenon at consumer level, including a thorough literature review, and it highlights trends in the field.

Spis treści

Introduction

Chapter 1: The Complexity of Food Waste at Consumer Level: Definitions, Causes and Impacts

Chapter 2: Factors and Behaviors Affecting Food Waste at Consumer Level: the household food waste journey model

Chapter 3: Food Policies to Tackle Food Waste: A Classification 

Chapter 4: Food waste initiatives at consumption level: A Categorization

Conclusion

O autorze

Ludovica Principato is a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow in the Business Studies Department at Roma Tre University, where she also teaches Food and Wine Marketing. She holds a PhD in Management with a research interest in sustainable food systems and in particular in food waste behaviour. She has been working on food waste since 2011; her six year endeavour has already resulted in several publications and a PhD thesis, which focused on food waste behaviour in household consumption. She was a member of the Psychology of Eating and Consumer Health Lab at the Harvard School of Public Health for two years and co-managed a research project on healthy food consumption in collaboration with the HSPH. During 2013-2014, she has been a visiting PhD student at the Institute for Community Health Promotion at Brown University (USA). Before that, she had been a research fellow with a project on food waste at the University of Roma Tre (2011-2013). Since 2011, Ludovica has been a research consultant for the BCFN Foundation. She is also researching consumer health, sustainability and food sharing models.