Preserving Ecosystem Services via Sustainable Agro-Food Chains
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (28 February 2019) | Viewed by 101555
Special Issue Editors
Interests: agri-food policy; sustainability; rural development; ecosystems economics
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Interests: agricultural economics; health and environmental economics; sustainable development
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Interests: food marketing; supply food chain analysis; management
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This Special Issue comprises a selection of papers from the 164th EAAE Seminar on Preserving Ecosystem Services via Sustainable Agro-Food Chains that will be held in September 2018. Unambiguously, preserving the ecosystem and securing sustainability are very complex topics with interlinked dimensions. Agro-food chains, in the present economic system, have a core role since the mode in which they function influences both producers and consumers. The seminar covers the aforementioned topic following a broad approach, while also focusing on sustainable food chains, and how they can influence agro-food production and consumption as a whole. The seminar aims to bring together researchers and policy makers from the relevant fields and establish the relation between agro-food chains and the preservation and provision of ecosystem services. In addition, environmental, economic and societal issues will be tackled from a transaction perspective. Papers selected for this Special Issue will be subjected to a rigorous peer review process with the aim of wide dissemination of valuable research results.
Prof. Konstadinos Mattas
Dr. Stefanos Nastis
Dr. George Baourakis
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Agro-food chains
- Ecosystem services
- Environmental Sustainability
- Societal equity
- Climate change
- Transaction analysis
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