eprintid: 10122433
rev_number: 14
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datestamp: 2021-02-25 16:37:50
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creators_name: Piras, S
creators_name: Pancotto, F
creators_name: Righi, S
creators_name: Vittuari, M
creators_name: Setti, M
title: Community social capital and status: The social dilemma of food waste
ispublished: pub
divisions: UCL
divisions: B04
divisions: C05
divisions: F48
note: This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
abstract: In developed countries, the largest share of food is wasted at the household level. Household food waste results from a complex interaction between economic factors, well-established routines, and social norms. To explain this interaction, we propose a simple model of waste behavior where the individual and social economic costs generated by wasting are counterbalanced by the security and status generated through acquiring excess food, thus causing a social dilemma. This trade-off is mediated by social capital, which measures the intensity with which each individual within a community evaluates the negative effects of waste. We test this model's hypotheses using a 2016 dataset of food behaviors and opinions of Italian households, which we merge with variables known to elicit the local level of social capital. We find individual food waste levels to be negatively related with social capital. Contrastingly, status concerns with respect to food and the lack of organizational abilities are both more prevalent in low social capital areas, and are related to increased food waste. This relationship is mediated by income.
date: 2021-05
date_type: published
publisher: Elsevier BV
official_url: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolecon.2021.106954
oa_status: green
full_text_type: pub
language: eng
primo: open
primo_central: open_green
verified: verified_manual
elements_id: 1849013
doi: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2021.106954
lyricists_name: Righi, Simone
lyricists_id: SRIGH29
actors_name: Righi, Simone
actors_id: SRIGH29
actors_role: owner
full_text_status: public
publication: Ecological Economics
volume: 183
article_number: 106954
issn: 0921-8009
citation:        Piras, S;    Pancotto, F;    Righi, S;    Vittuari, M;    Setti, M;      (2021)    Community social capital and status: The social dilemma of food waste.                   Ecological Economics , 183     , Article 106954.  10.1016/j.ecolecon.2021.106954 <https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolecon.2021.106954>.       Green open access   
 
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