Includes bibliographical references and index.

Modeling inclusive food supply chains toward sustainable ecosystem planning / Riccardo Accorsi, Emilio Ferrari and Riccardo Manzini -- Dmering issues and challenges in agri-food supply chain / Rajeev Bhat and Ivi Jõudu -- The role of modeling and systems thinking in contemporary agriculture / Holger Meinke -- Food shelf-life models / Luciano Piergiovanni and Sara Limbo -- A support-design procedure for sustainable product-packaging systems / Riccardo Accorsi -- Designing advanced food packaging systems and technologies through modeling and virtualization / Fabrizio Sarghini, Ferruh Erdogdu and Riccardo Accorsi -- Sustainable food processing : a production planning and scheduling perspective / Renzo Akkerman -- Design-support methodologies for job-shop production system in the food industry / Alessandro Tufano, Riccardo Accorsi, Giulia Baruffaldi and Riccardo Manzini -- The storage of perishable products : a decision-support tool to manage temperature-sensitive products warehouses / Giulia Baruffaldi, Riccardo Accorsi, Daniele Santi, Riccardo Manzini and Francesco Pilati -- Mathematical modeling for food and agriculture distribution / Christine Nguyen, Zhané Goff and Riccardo Accorsi -- Using vehicle routing models to improve sustainability of temperature-controlled food chains / Helena M. Stellingwerf, Argyris Kanellopoulos and Jacqueline M. Bloemhof -- Cool chain and temperature-controlled transport : an overview of concepts, challenges, and technologies / Behzad Behdani, Yun Fan and Jacqueline M. Bloemhof -- Food transportation and refrigeration technologies : design and optimization / Christian James -- Quality assessment of temperature-sensitive high-value food products: An application to Italian fine chocolate distribution / Riccardo Manzini, Riccardo Accorsi, Marco Bortolini and Andrea Gallo -- Models and technologies for the enhancement of transparency and visibility in food supply chains / Fredrik Nilsson, Malin Göransson and Klara Båth -- Forecasting for food demand / Fotios Petropoulos and Shawn Carver -- Food systems sustainability : the complex challenge of food loss and waste / Matteo Vittuari, Fabio De Menna, Laura Garcıa-Herrero, Marco Pagani, Laura Brenes-Peralta and Andrea Segre -- Handling food waste and losses : criticalities and methodologies / Rodolfo García-Flores, Pablo Juliano and Karolina Petkovic -- Sustainable urban food planning : optimizing land-use allocation and transportation in urban-rural ecosystems / Stefano Penazzi and Riccardo Accorsi -- Sustainable operations in reusable food packaging networks / Giulia Baruffaldi, Riccardo Accorsi, Luca Volpe, Riccardo Manzini and Fredrik Nilsson -- A model to enhance the penetration of the renewables to power multistage food supply chains / Marco Bortolini, Riccardo Accorsi, Mauro Gamberi and Francesco Pilati -- Decision support models for fresh fruits and vegetables supply chain management / Omar Ahumada and J. Rene Villalobos -- Modeling by-products and waste management in the meat industry / Riccardo Accorsi, Marco Bortolini and Andrea Gallo -- Recipe-driven methods for the design and management of food catering production systems / Riccardo Accorsi, Federica Garbellini, Francesca Giavolucci, Riccardo Manzini and Alessandro Tufano.

This title provides integrated and practicable solutions that aid planners and entrepreneurs in the design and optimization of food production-distribution systems and operations and drives change toward sustainable food ecosystems. With synthesized coverage of the academic literature, this book integrates the quantitative models and tools that address each step of food supply chain operations to provide readers with easy access to support-decision quantitative and practicable methods.