Christian Reynolds is a Knowledge Exchange Research Fellow in the Department of Geography, University of Sheffield, a Technical Specialist in international food sustainability at WRAP, UK, and an adjunct Research Fellow at the Barbara Hardy Institute for Sustainable Environments and Technologies, University of South Australia. His research examines the economic and environmental impacts of food consumption; with focus upon food waste, and sustainable, healthy, and affordable diets.

Tammara Soma is an Assistant Professor in Planning at the School of Resource and Environmental Management at Simon Fraser University. She is the Research Director and also the Co-Founder of the Food Systems Lab, the first social innovation lab to address the issue of food waste and food insecurity in Canada.

Charlotte Spring is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Calgary. Her PhD compared UK surplus food redistribution as charitable and activist practice. She has also undertaken considerable campaign work focusing critically on the relationships between food wastage and food insecurity.

Jordon Lazell is a Researcher at the Centre for Business in Society in the Faculty of Business and Law at Coventry University, UK. His research concerns sustainable consumption and production practices with a specific interest in food waste.

Food Waste 4.0: An Introduction to Contemporary Food Waste Studies Part I Understanding Modern Food Waste Regimes: Historical, Political Economic and Spiritual Dimensions 1. After Market: Capital, Surplus, and the Social Afterlives of Food Waste 2. The Perfect Storm: A History of Food Waste 3. Food Waste, Religion and Spirituality: Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Approaches 4. Interrogating Waste - The Role of Vastogenesis in 21st Century Capitalism Part II Food Waste (and Loss) along the Food Supply Chain and Institutions 5. Produce loss and waste in Agricultural Production 6. Food Waste in Processing and Distribution 7. Food Waste (and Loss) at the Retail Level 8. Household Food Waste 9. Food Waste in the Service Sector: Key concepts, measurement methods and best practices Part III Overview of Regional Food Waste - Research, Policy, and Legal Approaches 10. Food Waste in the United Kingdom and European Union 11. Food Loss and Waste Measurement Methods and Estimates for the United States 12. Apprehending Food Waste in Asia: Policies, Practices and Promising Trends 13. Food Waste in South Africa and Saudi Arabia 14. Food waste in Australia and New Zealand 15. Estimating total and per capita food waste in Brazilian Households: A Scenario Analysis Part IV Methodologies in Food Waste Studies 16. Food Waste Audits, Surveys and New Technologies 17. Moving Beyond the What and How much to the Why? Researching food Waste at the Consumer Level 18. Applying Behaviour Change Methods to Food Waste 19. All My Relations: Applying Social Innovation and Indigenous Methodology to Challenge the Paradigm of Food Waste 20. Modelling Approaches to Food Waste: Discrete Event Simulation; Machine Learning; Bayesian networks; Agent Based Simulation; and Mass Balance estimation Part V Solutions to Food Waste? 21. Surplus Food Redistribution 22. Keeping Unavoidable Food Waste in the Food Chain as Animal Feed 23. From Dumpster Dives to Disco Vibes: The Shifting Shape of Food Waste Activism 24. The Effects of Labelling, Packaging and the Eating Environment on Consumer-Generated Food Waste 25. Upcycling and valorisation of food waste 26. Exploring the Potential of Digital Food Waste Prevention in the Restaurant Industry 27. Food Waste Management, treatment and disposal options. A review and future considerations Part VI Debates in Food Waste Studies and Looking Ahead 28. Conduits that bite back: Challenging the 'win-win' solutions of food recalls and redistribution 29. Are You Buying Food Waste? The Roles Technology Can Play in (Re)Designing the Food Retail Experience 30. A Brief Overview of Current Food Waste Research: The What, Why, How and Future Directions 31. Challenging hegemonic conceptions of food waste: critical reflections from a food waste activist