Supply Chain Management for Sustainable Food Networks

Supply Chain Management for Sustainable Food Networks   An interdisciplinary framework for managing sustainable agrifood supply chains   Eleftherios Iakovou, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece   Dionysis Bochtis, Department of Engineering, Aarhus University, Denmark   Dimitrios Vlachos, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece   Dimitrios Aidonis, Department of Logistics, Technological Educational Institute of Central Macedonia, Greece   Supply Chain Management for Sustainable Food Networks provides an up–to–date and interdisciplinary framework for designing and operating sustainable supply chains for agri–food products. Focus is given to decision–making procedures and methodologies enabling policy–makers, managers and practitioners to design and manage effectively sustainable agrifood supply chain networks.   Authored by high profile researchers with global expertise in designing and operating sustainable supply chains in the agri–food industry, this book:   Features the entire hierarchical decision–making process for managing sustainable agrifood supply chains. Covers knowledge–based farming, management of agricultural wastes, sustainability, green supply chain network design, safety, security and traceability, IT in agrifood supply chains, carbon footprint management, quality management, risk management and policy– making. Explores green supply chain management, sustainable knowledge–based farming, corporate social responsibility, environmental management and emerging trends in agri–food retail supply chain operations. Examines sustainable practices that are unique for agriculture as well as practices that already have been implemented in other industrial sectors such as green logistics and Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR).   Supply Chain Management for Sustainable Food Networks provides a useful resource for researchers, practitioners, policy–makers, regulators and C–level executives that deal with strategic decision–making. Post–graduate students in the field of agriculture sciences, engineering, operations management, logistics and supply chain management will also benefit from this book. INDICE: Chapter 1 Sustainable Agrifood Supply Chain ManagementEleftherios Iakovou, Dionysis Bochtis, Dimitrios Vlachos, and Dimitrios Aidonis .Chapter 2 Precision Agriculture: Crop Management for Improved Productivity and Reduced Environmental Impact or Improved SustainabilitySpyros Fountas, Katerina Aggelopoulou, and Theofanis A. Gemtos .Chapter 3 Agricultural Waste BiomassSven G. Sommer, Lorie Hamelin, Jørgen E. Olesen, Felipe Montes, Jia Wei, Chen Qing, and Jin M. Triolo .Chapter 4 Maintaining Momentum: Drivers of Environmental and Economic Performance, and Impediments to SustainabilityMarcus Wagner .Chapter 5 A Hierarchical Decision–Making Framework for Quantitative Green Supply Chain Management: A Critical Synthesis of Academic Research EffortsRommert Dekker, Jacqueline Bloemhof, and Ioannis Mallidis .Chapter 6 Safety and TraceabilityF. Dabbene, P. Gay, and C. Tortia .Chapter 7 Information Technology for Food Supply ChainsKaterina Pramatari .Chapter 8 Carbon Footprint Management for Food Supply Chains: An Integrated Decision Support SystemAgorasti Toka, SC Lenny Koh, and Victor Guang Shi .Chapter 9 Quality Management Schemes and Connections to the Concept of Sustainability in the Food ChainDr. Ioannis Manikas, Karen Hamann, and Anton Sentic .Chapter 10 Risk Management for Agri–food ChainsKeramydas Christos, Papapanagiotou Konstantinos, Vlachos Dimitrios, and Iakovou Eleftherios .Chapter 11 Regulatory Policies and TrendsSirpa Kurppa

• ISBN: 978-1-118-93075-5
• Editorial: Wiley–Blackwell
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 328
• Fecha Publicación: 12/01/2016
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés