Wasting Food, Wasting Resources: Potential Environmental Savings Through Food Waste Reductions

Journal of Industrial Ecology

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2018, Pages 574-584

  Usubiaga, Arkaitz ^a   Butnar, Isabela ^a   Schepelmann, Philipp ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b Institute for Ecological Economy Research   (Germany)

Author keywords

environmental foodprint; environmentally extended input output analysis; food waste; industrial ecology; multiregional input output

Indexed keywords

CHAINS; EFFICIENCY; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; GAS EMISSIONS; GREENHOUSE GASES; INTERNATIONAL LAW; LAND USE; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

ENVIRONMENTAL FOODPRINT; FOOD WASTE; INDUSTRIAL ECOLOGY; INPUT OUTPUT ANALYSIS; INPUT-OUTPUT;

WASTE DISPOSAL;

ECOLOGICAL FOOTPRINT; EMISSION CONTROL; ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; ENVIRONMENTAL TECHNOLOGY; EUROPEAN COMMISSION; EUROPEAN UNION; FOOD; FOOD WASTE; INDUSTRIAL ECOLOGY; INPUT-OUTPUT ANALYSIS; POLLUTION CONTROL; RESOURCE USE; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; TECHNOLOGY ADOPTION;

EUROPE;

EID: 85047877681     PISSN: 10881980     EISSN: 15309290     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/jiec.12695     Document Type: Article

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