Rescuing things: Food waste in the rural environment in the Czech Republic
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F49777513%3A23330%2F19%3A43954588" target="_blank" >RIV/49777513:23330/19:43954588 - isvavai.cz</a>
Alternative codes found
RIV/68378076:_____/19:00504474
Result on the web
<a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0959652618339349#kwrds0010" target="_blank" >https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0959652618339349#kwrds0010</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2018.12.214" target="_blank" >10.1016/j.jclepro.2018.12.214</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Rescuing things: Food waste in the rural environment in the Czech Republic
Original language description
lthough household food waste has been scrutinized from various angles, less attention has been paid to rural areas viewed through the prism of everyday life. The purpose of this study is to investigate household food wasting in rural environment in West Bohemia, Czech Republic. This case study combines waste composition analysis of household waste and ethnographic research in a village conducted throughout 2013 and 2014. We describe the nature of waste itself, estimate its financial value using a method combining direct data from wasted packaging and retail survey, explore the differences among the households, interpret local understanding of food, and contribute to the theoretical debates concerning thrift. Our results show low degree of wasting of edible food (7.9 kg corresponding to 13.5 EUR per capita per year) but high variation among the households. Instead of searching for a single-causal explanation we explore a complex set of factors and relationships that shape everyday food-related practices. We approach the local discard practices via the concept of thrift and argue that it should be understood as a multi-dimensional domain that includes economizing via self-denial or creative management of resources, moral discourse entangled with care or responsibility, and social relations that shape the flows of value.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50404 - Anthropology, ethnology
Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/GA14-03314S" target="_blank" >GA14-03314S: Social Dimension of Household Waste: Consumption in the Post-Socialist Space</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)
Others
Publication year
2019
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
JOURNAL OF CLEANER PRODUCTION
ISSN
0959-6526
e-ISSN
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Volume of the periodical
214
Issue of the periodical within the volume
20 March 2019
Country of publishing house
GB - UNITED KINGDOM
Number of pages
12
Pages from-to
319-330
UT code for WoS article
000458228300031
EID of the result in the Scopus database
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