
Sustainable Food Supply Chains
Planning, Design, and Control through Interdisciplinary Methodologies
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Description
Key Features
- Contains quantitative models and tools that address the interconnected areas of the food supply chain
- Synthesizes academic literature related to sustainable food supply chains
- Deals with interdisciplinary fields of research (Industrial Systems Engineering, Food Science, Packaging Science, Decision Science, Logistics and Facility Management, Supply Chain Management, Agriculture and Land-use Planning) that dominate food supply chain systems and operations
- Includes case studies and applications
Readership
Researchers, practitioners and graduate students studying food ecosystems, food operations management and other related disciplines.
Table of Contents
1. Modelling Inclusive Food Supply Chains toward Sustainable Ecosystem Planning
2. Emerging Issues and Challenges in Agri-Food Supply Chain
3. The role of modelling and systems thinking in contemporary agriculture
4. Food Shelf-life Models
5. A Support-Design Procedure for Sustainable Food Product-Packaging Systems
6. Design Advanced Food Packaging Systems and Technologies through Modelling and Virtualization
7. Sustainable food processing: A production planning and scheduling perspective
8. Design-support Methodologies for Job-Shop Production System in the Food Industry
9. The Storage of Perishable Products: A Decision-support Tool to Manage Temperature-sensitive Products Warehouses
10. Mathematical Modelling of Food and Agriculture Distribution
11. Using Vehicle Routing Models to improve Sustainability of Temperature-controlled Food Chains
12. Cool chain and temperature-controlled transport: An overview of concepts, challenges and technologies
13. Food Transportation and Refrigeration Technologies – Design and optimization
14. Quality assessment of Temperature-sensitive High-value Food Products. An application to Italian fine chocolate distribution
15. Models and Technologies for the Enhancement of Transparency and Visibility in Food Supply Chains
16. Forecasting for food demand
17. Food Systems Sustainability: The complex challenge of food loss and waste
18. Handling Food Waste and Losses. Criticalities and Methodologies
19. Sustainable Urban Food Planning: Optimizing Land-use Allocation and Transportation in Urban-Rural Ecosystems
20. Sustainable Operations in Reusable Food Packaging Networks
21. A Model to Enhance the Penetration of the Renewables to Power Multi-Stage Food Supply Chains
22. Decision Support Models for Fresh Fruits and Vegetables Supply Chain Management
23. Modelling By-products and Waste Management in the Meat Industry
24. Recipe-driven Methods for the Design and Management of Food Catering Production Systems
Product details
- No. of pages: 394
- Language: English
- Copyright: © Academic Press 2019
- Published: June 10, 2019
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Paperback ISBN: 9780128134115
- eBook ISBN: 9780128134122
About the Editors
Riccardo Accorsi
Affiliations and Expertise
Riccardo Manzini
Affiliations and Expertise
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