"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? These questions are consider
Imagining Sustainable Food Systems: Theory and Practice
β Scribed by Alison Blay-Palmer
- Publisher
- Ashgate
- Year
- 2010
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 264
- Category
- Library
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β¦ Table of Contents
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 Systems
7 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 Systems
Index
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