Local Food Systems in Old Industrial Regions

Concepts, Spatial Context, and Local Practices

Jay D. Gatrell, Paula S. Ross (Autoren)

Neil Reid (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

288 Seiten

2016
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-138-27897-4 (ISBN)

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In recent years there has been an explosion of interest in local food systems-among policy makers, planners, and public health professionals, as well as environmentalists, community developers, academics, farmers, and ordinary citizens. While most local food systems share common characteristics, the chapters in this book explore the unique challenges and opportunities of local food systems located within mature and/or declining industrial regions. 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. However, challenges are numerous and include developing local markets of a sufficient scale, adequately matching supply and demand, and meeting the environmental challenges of finding safe growing locations. 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. The book represents a first attempt to provide a systematic picture of the opportunities and challenges facing the development of local food systems in old industrial regions.

Neil Reid is a Director of the Urban Affairs Center and Professor of Geography and Planning at the University of Toledo, USA, Jay D. Gatrell, is Dean of the College of Graduate and Professional Studies and Professor of Geography at the Indiana State University, USA and Paula Ross is a Research Associate at the Urban Affairs Center, University of Toledo, USA.

Contents: Foreword; Local food systems and old industrial regions, Neil Reid, Jay D. Gatrell and Paula Ross; A systems modelling framework for the role of agriculture in a sustainable urban ecosystem, Sara Metcalf; Social networks, ecological frameworks, and local economies, Casey Hoy, Steve Bosserman and Ross MacDonald; Extreme environments: urban farming, technological disasters, and a framework for rethinking urban gardening, Erica Giorda; Feeding the hungry: analysis of food insecurity in lower income urban communities, Mahbubur R. Meenar; Benchmarking local food systems in older industrial regions, James T. Hathaway; Urban food deserts: policy issues, access, and planning for a community food system, Jeanette Eckert and Sujata Shetty; Local food systems: the birth of new farmers and the demise of the family farm?, Jill K. Clark, Shoshanah Inwood and Jeff S. Sharp; Defining local food systems, Peleg Kremer, Tracey L. DeLiberty and Yda Schreuder; Urban food production limits and the viability of community gardens: the case of Hartford, Connecticut, C. Patrick Heidkamp, Scott E. Russell and Meghan Sloan; Neoliberalism and local food systems: understanding the narrative of hunger in the United States, Harold Perkins; Planning for sustainable food systems: an analysis of food system assessments from the United States and Canada, Marisol Pierce-Quinonez; Characterization of the built food environment for single parent households in an older industrial city, Lewiston, Maine, David E. Harris, Michelle Vazquez Jacobus, Holly A. Ewing, Sonja K. Pieck, Emily Kane and Janet Whatley Blum; Toward a relational geography of local food systems: or wicked food problems without quick spatial fixes, Neil Reid, Jay D. Gatrell and Paula Ross; Appendices; Index.

Erscheinungsdatum	15.02.2017
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	453 g
Themenwelt	Studium ► 1. Studienabschnitt (Vorklinik) ► Med. Psychologie / Soziologie
	Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
	Technik
ISBN-10	1-138-27897-1 / 1138278971
ISBN-13	978-1-138-27897-4 / 9781138278974
Zustand	Neuware