Notes on Contributors |
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Preface |
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Acknowledgments |
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1 Sustainable Agrifood Supply Chain Management |
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1.1 Introduction -- Agrifood Supply Chain Management |
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1.2 Why Sustainable Agrifood Supply Chain Management |
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1.3 Hierarchy of Decision-Making for AFSCs |
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1.3.2 Tactical and Operational Levels |
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1.4 Emerging Trends and Technologies in Primary Production |
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1.4.1 Alternative Production Systems |
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1.4.2 Innovative Technologies |
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2 Precision Agriculture: Crop Management for Improved Productivity and Reduced Environmental Impact or Improved Sustainability |
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2.2 How Precision Agriculture is Applied |
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2.2.2 Data Analysis and Management Zone Delineation |
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2.2.3 Variable Rate Application Technology |
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2.2.4 Auto Guidance Systems and Other Applications |
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2.3 Decision Support Systems for the Farmer |
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2.4 Profitability and Adoption of Precision Farming |
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2.5 Precision Agriculture and Sustainability |
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3 Agricultural Waste Biomass |
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3.2.1 Global Production of Agricultural Residues |
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3.3 Biorefinery Processing of Agricultural Waste Products |
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3.3.1 Physiochemical Properties and Organic Composition of Agricultural Waste and Residue |
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3.3.2 Bioenergy Production |
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3.3.3 Bio-based Chemical Production |
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3.4 Environmental and Land Use Issues |
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3.4.2 Crop Residues Management |
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3.4.4 Whole Chain Management |
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4 Maintaining Momentum: Drivers of Environmental and Economic Performance, and Impediments to Sustainability |
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107 | (2) |
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4.3 Hypothesis Development |
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4.3.1 The Link between Stakeholder Demands and Integration of Environmental Activities |
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4.3.2 The Link between Integration and Economic and Environmental Performance |
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4.3.3 The Role of Moderating Factors |
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4.4.2 Variable Descriptions |
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4.4.3 Statistical Estimation |
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4.6 Discussion and Conclusions |
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5 A Hierarchical Decision-Making Framework for Quantitative Green Supply Chain Management: A Critical Synthesis of Academic Research Efforts |
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5.2 Hierarchy of the Decision-Making Process |
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5.2.1 Strategic GSCM Decisions |
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5.2.2 Tactical GSCM Decisions |
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5.2.3 Operational GSCM Decisions |
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5.3 Critical Synthesis of Academic Research Efforts |
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5.4 Summary and Conclusions |
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6 Safety and Traceability |
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6.2 Drivers for Food Traceability |
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6.3 Traceability: Legislations and Standards |
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6.3.1 International Legislation |
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6.4 Design of Traceability Systems |
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6.4.1 Definitions of Traceability Related Concepts |
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6.4.2 Current Technologies for Traceability |
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6.4.3 Performance Optimization |
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7 Information Technology for Food Supply Chains |
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7.2 Information Technology Architecture in a Supply Chain Context |
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7.3 RFID-Enabled Supply Chain Management |
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7.4 Carbon Footprint Monitoring in the Supply Chain |
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7.5 Urban Shared Food Logistics |
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8 Carbon Footprint Management for Food Supply Chains: an Integrated Decision Support System |
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8.2 The Carbon Footprint of Food Supply Chains |
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8.2.2 Carbon Footprint of Pre-farm Processes |
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8.2.3 Carbon Footprint of On-farm Processes |
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8.2.4 Carbon Footprint of Post-farm Processes |
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8.2.5 Critical Challenges of CFM |
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8.3 The Supply Chain Environmental Analysis Tools |
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8.3.1 The Need for New Tools |
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8.3.2 Description of Methodological Approach |
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8.4 An Illustrative Case Study |
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8.4.1 Scenario Description |
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8.4.2 Application and Analysis of SCEnAT Tools |
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8.4.3 Implication of SCEnAT Tools in a Wheat Supply Chain |
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8.5 Summary and Conclusions |
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9 Quality Management Schemes and Connections to the Concept of Sustainability in the Food Chain |
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9.2 Quality Management Schemes in the Food Supply Chain |
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9.2.1 Food Quality Definitions |
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9.2.2 Quality Management Scheme Concepts |
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9.2.3 Application of Quality Management Schemes to the Supply Chain |
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9.2.4 Beneficiaries of Quality Management Schemes along the Supply Chain |
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9.3 Introducing Sustainability and Sustainable Production |
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9.4 Linking Quality Management Schemes with Sustainability along the Food Chain |
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9.4.3 Transportation and Food Retailing |
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9.5 Consumers and Quality Management Schemes Addressing Sustainability |
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10 Risk Management for Agri-food Supply Chains |
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10.2 Supply Chain Risk Management |
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10.2.1 Improving Security |
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10.2.2 Facing Disruptions |
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10.3 Risk Management in Agri-food Supply Chains |
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10.3.1 Risk Types and Sources |
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10.3.2 Risk Mitigation Strategies |
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10.3.3 Quantitative Tools for Agri-food Supply Chain Risk Management |
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10.4 Case 1: Revenue Management of Perishable Agri-food Products -- a Newsvendor-Type Modeling Approach |
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10.4.1 System Description |
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10.5 Case 2: Emergency Dual Sourcing Contracts -- a Simulation-Based Approach |
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10.5.1 System Description |
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10.5.2 Discrete Event Simulation Model |
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10.6 Case 3: Managing Agri-food Supply Chain Disruption Risks -- a Game-Theoretic Approach |
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10.6.1 Model and Problem Description |
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10.6.2 Study of Game Interactions |
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11 Regulatory Policies and Trends |
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11.1 Regulations as Tools |
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11.2 Environmental Externalities and Savings as Drivers of Regulations |
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11.3 Diversity as a Driver for Informal Regulations and Trends |
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11.4 Nutrition and Environmental Issues Regulated at the Food Plate Level |
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11.5 Citizens-Consumers Facing Regulations at the Market |
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11.6 Food Production as a Component of a Future Bioeconomy |
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11.7 Future Regionalism Related to Regulation |
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11.8 What is Needed for Regulatory Policy Development |
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Index |
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