Metrics and Impact

Kakadellis, S., Mao, S., Harwood, A., & Spang, E. S. (2025). State-level policies alone are insufficient to meet the federal food waste reduction goal in the United States. Nature Food. https://doi.org/10.1038/s43016-024-01092-w

Lange, M. C., Li, R., Apolzan, J. W., Huber, P. R., Steliotes, E., Robertson, K., Wilson, N. L. W., Jain, K., Ramnath, R., Roe, B. E., & Spang, E. S. (2025). Ontologies relevant for improving data interoperability for food loss and waste: A review and research agenda. Cleaner and Responsible Consumption, 19, 100330.

Mabe, L., S. Pace, and E.S. Spang. (2022) A cluster-based spatial analysis of recycling boundaries aligning anaerobic digestion infrastructure with food waste generation in California. Resources, Conservation and Recycling Advances. 15, 200113. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rcradv.2022.200113

Winans, K., E. Marvinney, A, Gillman, E. Spang. An Evaluation of On-Farm Food Loss Accounting in Life-Cycle Assessment (LCA) of Four California Specialty Crops. Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems. (2020). https://doi.org/10.3389/fsufs.2020.00010

Gillman, A., D. C. Campbell, E. S. Spang. (2019). Does on-farm food loss prevent waste? Insights from California produce growers. Resources, Conservation and Recycling 150:104408. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.resconrec.2019.104408

Spang, E.S.,  B. D. Stevens. (2018). Estimating the Blue Water Footprint of In-Field Crop Losses: A Case Study of U.S. Potato Cultivation. Sustainability 2018, 10(8), 2854; https://doi.org/10.3390/su10082854

Kendall, A., E. S. Spang. (2019). The role of industrial ecology in food and agriculture's adaptation to climate change.  Journal of Industrial Ecology. https://doi.org/10.1111/jiec.12851