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Titolo: | Imagining sustainable food systems [[electronic resource] ] : theory and practice / / edited by Alison Blay-Palmer |
Pubblicazione: | Farnham, Surrey ; ; Burlington, VT, : Ashgate, c2010 |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (264 p.) |
Disciplina: | 630 |
Soggetto topico: | Sustainable agriculture |
Food supply - International cooperation | |
Food security | |
Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
Altri autori: | Blay-PalmerAlison <1961-> |
Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | Cover; Contents; List of Figures; Notes on Contributors; Acknowledgements; Part 1: Interrogating Sustainable Food Systems; 1 Imagining Sustainable Food Systems; 2 Conceptualizing and Creating Sustainable Food Systems: How Interdisciplinarity can Help; 3 Sustainability: A Tool for Food System Reform?; Part 2: Inclusion and Exclusion in Sustainable Food Systems; 4 Greening the Realm: Sustainable Food Chains and the Public Plate; 5 Thinking About Labour in Alternative Food Systems; 6 The Urban Food Desert: Spatial Inequality or Opportunity for Change? |
Part 3: The Case for Sustainable Food Systems7 Food Systems Planning and Sustainable Cities and Regions: The Role of the Firm in Sustainable Food Capitalism; 8 The Nexus between Alternative Food Systems and Entrepreneurism: Three Local Stories; 9 Scaling Up: Bringing Public Institutions and Food Service Corporations into the Project for a Local, Sustainable Food System in Ontario; 10 Food Policy Encounters of a Third Kind: How the Toronto Food Policy Council Socializes for Sustain-Ability; 11 Food Insecurity in the Land of Plenty: The Windermere Valley Paradox | |
12 Imagining Sustainable Food Systems: The Path to Regenerative Food SystemsIndex | |
Sommario/riassunto: | 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. |
Titolo autorizzato: | Imagining sustainable food systems |
ISBN: | 1-317-11862-6 |
1-282-77386-0 | |
9786612773860 | |
0-7546-9609-X | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910459450503321 |
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