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Local Food Systems in Old Industrial Regions : Concepts, Spatial Context, and Local Practices.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Oxford : Taylor & Francis Group, 2012Copyright date: ©2012Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (287 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781317103783
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Local Food Systems in Old Industrial RegionsDDC classification:
  • 338.19
LOC classification:
  • HD9000.5 .L633 2016
Online resources:
Contents:
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 -- 5 Feeding the Hungry: Analysis of Food Insecurity in Lower Income Urban Communities -- 6 Benchmarking Local Food Systems in Older Industrial Regions -- 7 Urban 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 -- 10 Urban 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 -- 14 Toward a Relational Geography of Local Food Systems: Or Wicked Food Problems Without Quick Spatial Fixes -- Index.
Summary: 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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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 -- 5 Feeding the Hungry: Analysis of Food Insecurity in Lower Income Urban Communities -- 6 Benchmarking Local Food Systems in Older Industrial Regions -- 7 Urban 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 -- 10 Urban 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 -- 14 Toward a Relational Geography of Local Food Systems: Or Wicked Food Problems Without Quick Spatial Fixes -- Index.

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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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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