Local Food Systems in Old Industrial Regions Concepts, Spatial Context, and Local Practices
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| Format: | Elektronisch E-Book |
| Sprache: | English |
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Farnham
Ashgate Publishing Ltd
2012
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| Schriftenreihe: | Dynamics of economic space
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| Beschreibung: | Cover; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Notes on Contributors; Foreword; Abbreviations; 1 Local Food Systems and Old Industrial Regions; 2 A Systems Modeling Framework for the Role of Agriculture in a Sustainable Urban Ecosystem; 3 Social Networks, Ecological Frameworks, and Local Economies; 4 Extreme Environments: Urban Farming, Technological Disasters, and a Framework for Rethinking Urban Gardening; 6 Benchmarking Local Food Systems in Older Industrial Regions; 7Urban Food Deserts: Policy Issues, Access, and Planning for a Community Food System 8 Local Food Systems: The Birth of New Farmers and the Demise of the Family Farm?9 Defining Local Food Systems; 10Urban Food Production Limits and the Viability of Community Gardens:The Case of Hartford, Connecticut; 11 Neoliberalism and Local Food Systems: Understanding the Narrative of Hunger in the United States; 12 Planning for Sustainable Food Systems: An Analysis of Food System Assessments from the United States and Canada; 13 Characterization of the Built Food Environment for Single Parent Households in an Older Industrial City, Lewiston, Maine 14Toward a Relational Geography of Local Food Systems: Or Wicked Food Problems Without Quick Spatial FixesIndex 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. 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 |
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| Beschreibung: | 1 Online-Ressource (287 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9781409432227 140943222X |