MACMILLAN Food Waste Management: Solving the Wicked Problem

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 Review “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) From the Back Cover 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 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.