Food Waste Management Solving the Wicked Problem

Introduction: Solutions for managing food waste.- Household food waste – how to avoid it? An integrative review.- Nudging in food waste management: Where sustainability meets cost-effectiveness.- Managerial practices of reducing food waste in supermarkets.- The evolution of the German anti-food waste movement: Turning sustainable ideas into business.- Distributed agency in food waste – A focus on non-human actors in retail setting.- Between kitchen sink and city sewer: A socio-ecological approach to food waste in environmental design.- Creating resilient interventions to food waste: Aligning and leveraging systems and design thinking.- Assumptions about consumers in food waste campaigns: A visual analysis.- From scarcity to abundance: Food waste themes and virtues in agrarian and mature consumer society.- Mobilising consumers for food waste reduction in Finnish media discourse.- Insect-based bioconversion: Value from food waste.- Gleaning: Turning food waste at farms into marketable products.- Exploring food waste reducing apps – A business model lens.- ECOWASTE4FOOD project: Cases for food waste reduction at city and regional levels in the EU.- From measurement to management: Food waste in the Finnish food chain.

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.