Imagining Sustainable Food Systems (eBook, ePUB)

Theory and Practice
Redaktion: Blay-Palmer, Alison

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

In the context of the global food crisis, a growing consensus is emerging among academics, health practitioners, farmers, policy-makers, businesses and consumers about the merits of building an alternative food system. Using a wide range of case studies, this book provides a critical overview, showing how and where theory and practice can converge to produce more sustainable food systems.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Mai 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317118626
• Artikelnr.: 45095907

Autorenporträt

Alison Blay-Palmer, Associate Professor, Department of Geography and Environmental Studies, Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Canada

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Part 1 Interrogating Sustainable Food Systems: Imagining
sustainable food systems, Alison Blay-Palmer; Conceptualizing and creating
sustainable food systems: how interdisciplinarity can help, Clare Hinrichs;
Sustainability: a tool for food system reform?, Mustafa Koc. Part 2
Inclusion and Exclusion in Sustainable Food Systems: Greening the realm:
sustainable food chains and the public plate, Kevin Morgan; Thinking about
labour in alternative food systems, Yael Levitte; The urban food desert:
spatial inequality or opportunity for change?, Ellen Desjardins. Part 3 The
Case for Sustainable Food Systems: Food systems planning and sustainable
cities and regions: the role of the firm in sustainable food capitalism,
Betsy Donald; The nexus between alternative food systems and
entrepreneurism: three local stories, Hélène St. Jacques; Scaling up:
bringing public institutions and food service corporations into the project
for a local, sustainable food system in Ontario, Harriet Friedmann; Food
policy encounters of a 3rd kind: how the Toronto Food Policy Council
socializes for sustain-ability, Wayne Roberts; Food insecurity in the land
of plenty: the Windermere valley paradox, Alison Bell; Imagining
sustainable food systems: the path to regenerative food systems, Alison
Blay-Palmer and Mustafa Koc; Index.