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Food Security, System, and Environmentally Sustainable Food and Service

A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainable Food".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2022) | Viewed by 22823

Special Issue Editors

Prof. Dr. Sangmook Lee

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Department of Hospitality and Tourism Management, Kyungsung University, Busan 48434, Korea
Interests: consumer behavior in foodservice; restaurant management
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Prof. Dr. Hyo-Jin Kim

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Department of Tourism Management, Mokpo National University, Mokpo 58554, Korea
Interests: sustainable food environment; foodservice marketing
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Prof. Dr. Gum-Kwang Bae

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Dep. of Foodservice Management, Dong-Eui University, Busan 47340, Korea
Interests: sustainable food environment; foodservice management; food event
Prof. Dr. Byeong-Cheol Lee

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Dept. of Tourism & Event Management in College of Tourism Science, Kyonggi University, Seoul 03746, Korea
Interests: food event management; consumer behavior in foodservice

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

This Special Issue (Food Security and Environmentally Sustainable Food Systems) aims to conduct research on food safety and sustainable food industry along with research on the causal relationship between consumption behaviors of various environmental factors that are developing in the food service industry. In particular, it is expected that meaningful empirical studies will be conducted based on various academic approaches and implications through this issue at a time when the importance of safety in the food/foodservice industry after COVID-19 is most apparent.

(1) Overall Outline

  1. Focus: Food security, consumer behavior in the foodservice industry, sustainable food system, etc.
  2. Scope: Food habit and food safety, global food issues and marketing, marketing, nutrition, food event and festival, technology,, etc.
  3. Purpose: The food security and environmentally sustainable food systems articles from international experts in various disciplines, including marketing, finance, technology, consumer behavior, restaurant management, environment management, human resources, and especially in food and food system management.

(2) Suggest how the issue will usefully supplement (relate to) existing literature

“Food Security and Environmentally Sustainable Food Systems” provides an essential overview of work being done in all areas of foodservice linked to consumer behavior, food safety, marketing, and technology and systems. 

Prof. Dr. Sangmook Lee
Prof. Dr. Hyo-Jin Kim
Prof. Dr. Gum-Kwang Bae
Prof. Dr. Byeong-Cheol Lee
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • sustainable food
  • sustainable food system
  • sustainable environments in foodservice business
  • food security

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The Impact of ESG on Brand Trust and Word of Mouth in Food and Beverage Companies: Focusing on Jeju Island Tourists
by Gum-Kwang Bae, Sang-Mook Lee and Bui-Kim Luan
Sustainability 2023, 15(3), 2348; https://doi.org/10.3390/su15032348 - 27 Jan 2023
Cited by 12 | Viewed by 8254
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This study conducted to verfiy the structural causal relationship between the ESG attributes of food and beverage companies, trust, and word of mouth (WOM) as perceived by consumers visiting Jeju Island. The present study used respondents who understand ESG management and selected a [...] Read more.
This study conducted to verfiy the structural causal relationship between the ESG attributes of food and beverage companies, trust, and word of mouth (WOM) as perceived by consumers visiting Jeju Island. The present study used respondents who understand ESG management and selected a representative ESG management company in the food service business (e.g., Starbucks Reusable Cup or Samdasoo Unlabeled, etc.). A survey was requested from an online survey company, and total 521 participants were selected for the data analysis. The IBM 24.0 program and AMOS 22.0 program was employed to conduct statistic analysis. Present study demonstrated as follows. First, as a result of the hypothesis testing of the relationship between the three attributes of ESG and brand trust, the environmental factor (E) and the social factor (S) have a significant positive (+) effect on brand trust. Second, hypothesis testing on the relationship between the three attributes of ESG and the influence of WOM showed that environmental factors and social factors were critical antecedents of WOM. Next, verifying the hypothesis between brand trust and WOM, brand trust had a significant positive (+) effect on WOM. By verifying the hypotheses, the current study identified a critical relationship between the ESG management attributes of food and beverage companies and customers’ brand trust and WOM. These founding showed differences in the variables that directly affect brand trust and WOM among the ESG attributes recognized by tourists in Jeju Island about Jeju-based food and beverage companies practicing ESG management. Furthermore, it was confirmed that the value formed by these food and beverage companies’ ESG management activities could directly affect consumers’ brand trust and WOM intentions. Hence, the study intends to expand the range of ESG-related academic views and suggest meaningful marketing implications for various food and beverage companies that want to practice ESG management. Full article
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Campus Dining Sustainability: A Perspective from College Students
by Borham Yoon, Jinha Lee and Heejin Lim
Sustainability 2023, 15(3), 2134; https://doi.org/10.3390/su15032134 - 23 Jan 2023
Cited by 4 | Viewed by 4240
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The purpose of the study is to assess campus dining sustainability from the college students’ perspective. A total of 394 responses were analyzed by the importance-performance analysis (IPA) to determine the difference between college students’ importance ratings for and perceived sustainability performance of [...] Read more.
The purpose of the study is to assess campus dining sustainability from the college students’ perspective. A total of 394 responses were analyzed by the importance-performance analysis (IPA) to determine the difference between college students’ importance ratings for and perceived sustainability performance of sustainable practices in campus dining operations. The locus for focus model was applied to demonstrate the priority of the sustainable practices. The results indicate that there is a gap between students’ expectation and university dining services’ performance regarding sustainable practices. The findings suggest that university administrators and operators need to focus on reducing food waste and on food donation so that they can meet the customers’ green values and expectation. Full article
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Urban Forest Visit Motivation Scale: Development and Validation
by Jun Lee and Dong-Han Kim
Sustainability 2023, 15(1), 408; https://doi.org/10.3390/su15010408 - 27 Dec 2022
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Due to the importance of the positive effects of urban forests on urban dwellers and the limitations of prior studies, which have mainly dealt with motivations involving rural or tourism-oriented forests, this study aims to develop a scale of visit motivation for an [...] Read more.
Due to the importance of the positive effects of urban forests on urban dwellers and the limitations of prior studies, which have mainly dealt with motivations involving rural or tourism-oriented forests, this study aims to develop a scale of visit motivation for an urban forest specifically as a way to deal with more diverse and specific motivations. The first step is to develop a draft version of the Urban Forest Visit Motivation Scale (UFVMS) through experts’ discussions of important factors from prior studies and the analysis of Big Data. Then, to confirm the reliability and validity of these items, 878 valid data of visitors of urban forests living in Seoul and Incheon were collected to conduct EFA and CFA to validate the final version of the scale. As a result of factor analysis, seven dimensions (Experience Activities, Healing and Rest, Health, Environmental Experience, Daily Leisure, Family, Eco-Friendly) with 24 items for the UFVMS were drawn after deleting 5 items that had a low standard regression weight on CFA or were unsuitable for the characteristics of a dimension. The results of this study are expected to provide academic and practical implications for urban forest visit motivation. In particular, unlike common purposes such as healing and health, the results indicate that the purpose of daily leisure-related activities is a notable factor of visiting urban forests, showing that there is also a high need for good-quality facilities such as food suppliers, toilets, and so on. This study will contribute to the academic development of research on UFVMS and the practical development for managers of urban forests in terms of planning a better management of the urban forest with a full understanding of visitors’ motivations. This improving management will contribute to the development of the social sustainability of urban citizens while giving various benefits. Full article
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A Tourist’s Gaze on Local Tourism Governance: The Relationship among Local Tourism Governance and Brand Equity, Tourism Attachment for Sustainable Tourism
by Jeong-Joon Kim and Chul-Jin Lee
Sustainability 2022, 14(24), 16477; https://doi.org/10.3390/su142416477 - 9 Dec 2022
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Taking note of the role played by local tourism governance as viewed from the tourist’s gaze, this study examined the effects of local tourism governance on the awareness of local tourism brand equity and local tourism attachment as perceived by tourists. This study [...] Read more.
Taking note of the role played by local tourism governance as viewed from the tourist’s gaze, this study examined the effects of local tourism governance on the awareness of local tourism brand equity and local tourism attachment as perceived by tourists. This study also attempted to identify the role and importance of externally-expressed local tourism governance. In total, 439 samples were collected from tourists who had recently experienced local tourism in South Korea; these samples were analyzed using SPSS. The implications derived from the results of the analysis are as follows. First, regarding the effects that the operation of local tourism governance have on brand equity, it was identified that the factors of partnership and institutionalization had significant positive effects on both brand images and brand awareness, where the effect of partnership was the strongest, and where participation only had a significant positive effect on the brand images. Second, regarding the relationship between the operation of local tourism governance and brand equity, it was found that, from the viewpoint of tourists, the governance support system negatively affects brand equity. Lastly, as has been shown in previous studies, both brand images and brand awareness—which are two core sub-factors of local tourism-brand equity—had significant effects on local tourism attachment; of them, brand awareness played a stronger role in the formation of local tourism attachment. Future studies should examine the functional role of local tourism governance based on field investigations at multiple destinations, checking the actual effects of local tourism governance while focusing on the associations between the role of local tourism governance and actually measurable indicators, such as revitalization of the local industrial economy, increases in income, performance in terms of attracting tourists, and improved satisfaction with local tourism. Full article
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In the COVID-19 Era, When and Where Will You Travel Abroad? Prediction through Application of PPM Model
by Jeong-Joon Kim, Byeong-Cheol Lee and Hyo-Jeong Byun
Sustainability 2022, 14(18), 11485; https://doi.org/10.3390/su141811485 - 13 Sep 2022
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This study aimed to derive tourism motives and constraint factors that have changed or are newly applicable after COVID-19, and to identify the influencing relationships between these factors and complex aspects of tourism behavior intentions. For this purpose, the Push-Pull-Mooring model was used. [...] Read more.
This study aimed to derive tourism motives and constraint factors that have changed or are newly applicable after COVID-19, and to identify the influencing relationships between these factors and complex aspects of tourism behavior intentions. For this purpose, the Push-Pull-Mooring model was used. To achieve the purpose of this study, prior literature and empirical studies were used to derive the primary measurement items through the primarily derived PPM model-based factors, and an online questionnaire survey was conducted with consumers who had had experience of overseas travel within the past two years. In total, 322 copies of the questionnaire were used for analysis. Through factor analyses, five push factors, four pull factors, and four mooring factors were derived. To understand tourism behavior intentions, each of the travel resumption times, preferred destination types, and preferred accommodation types were divided into three to conduct multinomial logistic regression analysis. The influence relationships between variables were verified to identify the changes in tourism behavior intentions caused by COVID-19, and the results indicated that some items of the PPM factors had significant influencing relationships with travel resumption times and preferred accommodation types. The preferred destination types were found to have significant influencing relationships with some items of the push/pull factors that were not found to have any influencing relationships with the mooring factors. This study is meaningful in that it presented motives and constraint factors for tourism behaviors from a new perspective based on changes in the tourism environment due to COVID-19, and the application of the PPM model and travel behavior is expected to be applied to diverse tourist behavior studies hereafter to achieve theoretical extensions. Full article
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Exploring Food Deserts in Seoul, South Korea during the COVID-19 Pandemic (from 2019 to 2021)
by Jeon-Young Kang and Seunghwan Lee
Sustainability 2022, 14(9), 5210; https://doi.org/10.3390/su14095210 - 26 Apr 2022
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Since the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) was declared a pandemic by the World Health Organization, our lifestyle (e.g., food culture) has changed. In particular, the food insecurity issue has exacerbated. To address this issue, this study aims to measure spatial accessibility to food [...] Read more.
Since the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) was declared a pandemic by the World Health Organization, our lifestyle (e.g., food culture) has changed. In particular, the food insecurity issue has exacerbated. To address this issue, this study aims to measure spatial accessibility to food outlets and identify food deserts in Seoul, South Korea during the COVID-19 pandemic (i.e., 2019–2021). To assess spatial access to food outlets, we used the enhanced two-step floating catchment area (E2SFCA) method. The results from the E2SFCA methods showed that spatial accessibility to restaurants increased, but access to grocery stores decreased. A noticeable change occurred in Gangnam and Seocho. The Gini coefficients indicated that equality in spatial accessibility to restaurants fluctuated (i.e., worsened from 2019 to 2020 and improved from 2020 to 2021), whereas equality in spatial accessibility to grocery stores improved. The results help to identify prioritized regions where additional food resources can be placed, especially for marginalized people who have limited access to food due to their socio-economic status. Full article
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