Food Consumption in the City

Marlyne Sahakian is a Senior Researcher in the Faculty of Geosciences and the Environment at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland. Czarina Saloma is Associate Professor of Sociology at Ateneo de Manila University, Philippines, and recent Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Fellow at Bielefeld University, Germany.  Suren Erkman is Associate Professor in the Faculty of Geosciences and the Environment at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland, where he manages the Industrial Ecology Group.

Introduction Marlyne Sahakian, Czarina Saloma and Suren Erkman Part 1: Trends across the Region 1. Same, Same – but Different: On Increasing Meat Consumption in the Global South Hellmuth Lange 2. Grappling with Impacts: Environmental Considerations around Agriculture and Food Waste Treatment in Asian cities Megha Shenoy Part 2: Food Practices and Cultures 3. Emerging Consumerism and Eating Out in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam: The Social Embeddedness of Food Sharing Judith Ehlert 4. Eating in Vertical Neighborhoods: Food Consumption Practices in Metro Manila Condominiums Czarina Saloma and Erik Akpedonu 5. From Beef to Bananas: Consumer Preferences and Local Food Flows in Honolulu, Hawai‘i Elizabeth Louis and Kyle Datta 6. The Food Revolution in Melbourne, 1980-2015 Warwick Frost and Jennifer Laing 7. The Practices of Indian Vegetarianism in a World of Limited Resources: The Case of Bengaluru Rune-Christoffer Dragsdahl Part 3: Food Waste Dynamics 8. Uneaten Food: Emerging Social Practices around Food Waste in Greater Tokyo Atsushi Watabe, Chen Liu and Magnus Bengtsson 9. From Thrift to Sustainability: The Changing Table Manners of Shanghai’s Food Leftovers Dunfu Zhang 10. Food Waste in the Food Service Sector: A Case Study from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Effie Papargyropoulou 11. Convenient Food, Inconvenient Waste: Systems of Provision Meet Social Practices in Seoul Keith Lee 12. Towards Sustainable Consumption of Rice in a Private School in Metro Manila Abigail Marie Favis and Rafael Estanislao