Mangos from India, pasta from Italy, coffee from Colombia: Every day, we are nourished by a global food system that relies on our planet remaining verdant and productive. But current practices are undermining both human and environmental health, resulting in the paradoxes of obesity paired with...

This short book reviews the provision of food bank and other emergency food aid provision with a specific focus on the UK, whilst drawing lessons from North America, Brazil and Europe. The authors look at the historical positioning of food aid and the growth of the food aid sector in the UK...

This book examines the factors involved in consumer responses to food produced in regions near the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Plant following the March 2011 Eastern Japanese earthquake, and assesses how responses to reports on food safety and risk of radiation contamination shaped consumer...

Verena Brenner provides a systematic approach for the investigation, measurement, and management of supply chain disruptions. A terminological, theoretical and practical basis for the analysis of supply chain disruptions is developed to create a consistent and transferable research framework. To...

Einleitung -- Emotionen als Treiber hedonischer Bewertungsprozesse.-Charakteristika des hedonischen Konsumprozesses -- Indikative Validierung des strukturellen Rahmens -- Intertemporäre Dynamik von Bewertungsprozessen -- Fazit.

Verbraucherleitbild und weitere rechtliche Grundlagen -- Konsumentenverhalten – insbesondere Informationsverarbeitung -- Preis-Packungsgrößen-Strategien von Anbietern -- Downsizing und dessen Kenngrößen -- Downsizing-Motive von Herstellern -- Downsizing-Auswirkungen für Konsumenten und...

Gesundheitsorientierte Markenstrategien als Option der Markenpolitik im Nahmngsmittelsektor -- Das Untersuchungsdesign der vorliegenden Arbeit -- Die Entwicklung einer Skala zur Messung der wahtgenommenen Gesundheitsprofilierung von Lebensmitteln -- Die theoriegeleitete Modellentwicklung zur...

Worldwide health care problems are a hot, growing application in Operations Research. Along with a quickly growing field is an active community of Medical OR and Risk Analysis researchers. Tony Cox is one of the leading research scholars in the field of Risk Heath Risk. His work on health risk...

Production planning in fresh food industries is a challenging task. Although modern Advanced Planning and Scheduling (APS) systems could provide significant support, APS implementation numbers in these industries remain low. Therefore, based on an in-depth analysis of three sample fresh food...

This book offers a detailed analysis and a set of carefully measured suggestions towards achieving greater integration of science, precaution, and public involvement in current arrangements for European food safety governance. The devised governance framework provides a distinctive system of...