Sustainable Food Supply Chains: Planning, Design, and Control through Interdisciplinary Methodologies

Sustainable Food Supply Chains: Planning, Design, and Control through Interdisciplinary Methodologies provides integrated and practicable solutions that aid planners and entrepreneurs in the design and optimization of food production/distribution systems and operations. With synthesized coverage of the existing academic literature, this book integrates the quantitative models and tools that address each step of food supply chain operation, presenting readers with easy access to information that supports quantitative and practicable methods. Broken into four parts, the book includes an introduction, problem statement, quantitative models, tools, case studies, applications, and an integrated framework for food supply chain system and operations design. Contains quantitative models and tools that address the interconnected areas of the food supply chain Synthesizes the academic literature relating to sustainable food supply chains Deals with interdisciplinary fields of research (Engineering, Food Science, Biology, Land Planning) that rule food supply chain systems and operations Includes case studies and applications

• | Author: Riccardo Accorsi, Riccardo Manzini
• | Publisher: Academic Press
• | Publication Date: Jun 10, 2019
• | Number of Pages: 394 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 0128134119
• | ISBN-13: 9780128134115