Jay D. Gatrell, Paula S. Ross

Local Food Systems in Old Industrial Regions (eBook, ePUB)

Concepts, Spatial Context, and Local Practices
Redaktion: Reid, Neil

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

In recent years there has been an explosion of interest in local food systems-among policy makers, planners, and public health professionals, as well as environmentalists, community developers, academics, farmers, and ordinary citizens. While most local food systems share common characteristics, the chapters in this book explore the unique challenges and opportunities of local food systems located within mature and/or declining industrial regions. Local food systems have the potential to provide residents with a supply of safe and nutritious food; such systems also have the potential to create much-needed employment opportunities. However, challenges are numerous and include developing local markets of a sufficient scale, adequately matching supply and demand, and meeting the environmental challenges of finding safe growing locations. Interrogating the scale, scope, and economic context of local food systems in aging industrialized cities, this book provides a foundation for the development of new sub-fields in economic, urban, and agricultural geographies that focus on local food systems. The book represents a first attempt to provide a systematic picture of the opportunities and challenges facing the development of local food systems in old industrial regions.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 286
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Mai 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317103776
• Artikelnr.: 45092791

Autorenporträt

Neil Reid is a Director of the Urban Affairs Center and Professor of Geography and Planning at the University of Toledo, USA, Jay D. Gatrell, is Dean of the College of Graduate and Professional Studies and Professor of Geography at the Indiana State University, USA and Paula Ross is a Research Associate at the Urban Affairs Center, University of Toledo, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Foreword; Local food systems and old industrial regions
Neil Reid
Jay D. Gatrell and Paula Ross; A systems modelling framework for the role of agriculture in a sustainable urban ecosystem
Sara Metcalf; Social networks
ecological frameworks
and local economies
Casey Hoy
Steve Bosserman and Ross MacDonald; Extreme environments: urban farming
technological disasters
and a framework for rethinking urban gardening
Erica Giorda; Feeding the hungry: analysis of food insecurity in lower income urban communities
Mahbubur R. Meenar; Benchmarking local food systems in older industrial regions
James T. Hathaway; Urban food deserts: policy issues
access
and planning for a community food system
Jeanette Eckert and Sujata Shetty; Local food systems: the birth of new farmers and the demise of the family farm?
Jill K. Clark
Shoshanah Inwood and Jeff S. Sharp; Defining local food systems
Peleg Kremer
Tracey L. DeLiberty and Yda Schreuder; Urban food production limits and the viability of community gardens: the case of Hartford
Connecticut
C. Patrick Heidkamp
Scott E. Russell and Meghan Sloan; Neoliberalism and local food systems: understanding the narrative of hunger in the United States
Harold Perkins; Planning for sustainable food systems: an analysis of food system assessments from the United States and Canada
Marisol Pierce-Quinonez; Characterization of the built food environment for single parent households in an older industrial city
Lewiston
Maine
David E. Harris
Michelle Vazquez Jacobus
Holly A. Ewing
Sonja K. Pieck
Emily Kane and Janet Whatley Blum; Toward a relational geography of local food systems: or wicked food problems without quick spatial fixes
Neil Reid
Jay D. Gatrell and Paula Ross; Appendices; Index.