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标题：Towards integrating production and consumption to reduce consumer food waste in developed countries
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作者：Aicha Jellil ; Elliot Woolley ; Shahin Rahimifard 等
期刊名称：International Journal of Sustainable Engineering
印刷版ISSN：1939-7038
出版年度：2018
卷号：11
期号：5
页码：294-306
DOI：10.1080/19397038.2018.1428834
语种：English
出版社：Taylor & Francis Group
摘要：AbstractLiterature analysing reasons for Consumer Food Waste (CFW) revealed that it cannot be reduced to consumer behaviour alone. In fact, CFW should not be conceptualised as the problem but as a symptom of a food system that oversupplies and encourages consumerism. This research focuses on preventing CFW in the United Kingdom (UK), as a representative of a developed country, by improving the traditional food provisioning system to better integrate production and consumption. To achieve this, five stages are identified to design a sustainable product service system (PSS) capable of supporting consumers to better manage their food operations: (1) strategic analysis of current food provisioning system, (2) exploring system level innovations leading to minimisation of CFW, (3) refinement and selection of PSS, (4) designing the most promising PSS from an environmental, economic and social perspective, and (5) evaluating designed PSS. This paper considers the first of these stages, reviews reasons for and existing solutions to CFW, and provides a strategic analysis of the current food provisioning system to identify characteristics that could be exploited within a new PSS. Initial investigations reveal applicability of PSS concept to the food provisioning system and potential for reduction of CFW if core causes are addressed.
关键词：KeywordsenConsumer food wasteproduct service systemsustainable consumptionstakeholders