Imagining Sustainable Food Systems

Theory and Practice
Herausgeber: Blay-Palmer, Alison

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

What defines a sustainable food system? How can it be more inclusive? How do local and global scales interact and how does power flow within food systems? How to encourage an interdisciplinary approach to realizing sustainable food systems? And how to activate change? This title answers these questions.

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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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Oktober 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 549g
• ISBN-13: 9780754678168
• ISBN-10: 0754678164
• Artikelnr.: 41243391

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.