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Supply Chain Management for Sustainable Food Networks.
Title:
Supply Chain Management for Sustainable Food Networks.
Author:
Iakovou, Eleftherios.
ISBN:
9781118937501
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Edition:
1st ed.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (360 pages)
Contents:
Title Page -- Table of Contents -- Notes on contributors -- Chapter 1 -- Chapter 2 -- Chapter 3 -- Chapter 4 -- Chapter 5 -- Chapter 6 -- Chapter 7 -- Chapter 8 -- Chapter 9 -- Chapter 10 -- Chapter 11 -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Sustainable Agrifood Supply Chain Management -- 1.1 Introduction - Agrifood Supply Chain Management -- 1.2 Why Sustainable Agrifood Supply Chain Management -- 1.3 Hierarchy of Decision-Making for AFSCs -- 1.4 Emerging Trends and Technologies in Primary Production -- 1.5 Conclusions -- Acknowledgments -- References -- 2 Precision Agriculture: Crop Management for Improved Productivity and Reduced Environmental Impact or Improved Sustainability -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 How Precision Agriculture Is Applied -- 2.3 Decision Support Systems for the Farmer -- 2.4 Profitability and Adoption of Precision Farming -- 2.5 Precision Agriculture and Sustainability -- 2.6 Conclusions -- References -- 3 Agricultural Waste Biomass -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Amount of Biomass -- 3.3 Biorefinery Processing of Agricultural Waste Products -- 3.4 Environmental and Land Use Issues -- 3.5 Conclusion -- References -- 4 Maintaining Momentum: Drivers of Environmental and Economic Performance, and Impediments to Sustainability -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Literature Review -- 4.3 Hypothesis Development -- 4.4 Data and Method -- 4.5 Results -- 4.6 Discussion and Conclusions -- References -- 5 A Hierarchical Decision-Making Framework for Quantitative Green Supply Chain Management: A Critical Synthesis of Academic Research Efforts -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 Hierarchy of the Decision-Making Process -- 5.3 Critical Synthesis of Academic Research Efforts -- 5.4 Summary and Conclusions -- Acknowledgments -- References -- 6 Safety and Traceability -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 Drivers for Food Traceability -- 6.3 Traceability: Legislations and Standards.

6.4 Design of Traceability Systems -- 6.5 Future Trends -- 6.6 Conclusions -- References -- 7 Information Technology for Food Supply Chains -- 7.1 Introduction -- 7.2 Information Technology Architecture in a Supply Chain Context -- 7.3 RFID-Enabled Supply Chain Management -- 7.4 Carbon Footprint Monitoring in the Supply Chain -- 7.5 Urban Shared Food Logistics -- 7.6 Discussion -- 7.7 Conclusions -- References -- 8 Carbon Footprint Management for Food Supply Chains: an Integrated Decision Support System -- 8.1 Introduction -- 8.2 The Carbon Footprint of Food Supply Chains -- 8.3 The Supply Chain Environmental Analysis Tools -- 8.4 An Illustrative Case Study -- 8.5 Summary and Conclusions -- References -- 9 Quality Management Schemes and Connections to the Concept of Sustainability in the Food Chain -- 9.1 Introduction -- 9.2 Quality Management Schemes in the Food Supply Chain -- 9.3 Introducing Sustainability and Sustainable Production -- 9.4 Linking Quality Management Schemes with Sustainability along the Food Chain -- 9.5 Consumers and Quality Management Schemes Addressing Sustainability -- 9.6 Conclusion -- References -- 10 Risk Management for Agri-food Supply Chains -- 10.1 Introduction -- 10.2 Supply Chain Risk Management -- 10.3 Risk Management in Agri-food Supply Chains -- 10.4 Case 1: Revenue Management of Perishable Agri-food Products - a Newsvendor-Type Modeling Approach -- 10.4.2 Model Development -- 10.5 Case 2: Emergency Dual Sourcing Contracts - a Simulation-Based Approach -- 10.6 Case 3: Managing Agri-food Supply Chain Disruption Risks - a Game-Theoretic Approach -- 10.7 Conclusions -- Acknowledgments -- References -- 11 Regulatory Policies and Trends -- 11.1 Regulations as Tools -- 11.2 Environmental Externalities and Savings as Drivers of Regulations -- 11.3 Diversity as a Driver for Informal Regulations and Trends.

11.4 Nutrition and Environmental Issues Regulated at the Food Plate Level -- 11.5 Citizens-Consumers Facing Regulations at the Market -- 11.6 Food Production as a Component of a Future Bioeconomy -- 11.7 Future Regionalism Related to Regulation -- 11.8 What Is Needed for Regulatory Policy Development -- References -- Index -- End User License Agreement.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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