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  • Elgar Encyclopedia of Food and Society

    Series series Elgar Encyclopedias in the Social Sciences series
    Featuring over 120 entries from international experts, this Encyclopedia provides a comprehensive overview of the activities, ideas, issues and challenges that shape relationships between food systems and society. Each entry includes an accessible and informative introduction to its topic, along with specific examples, recommended further reading and references to other sources.Presenting a range ... Read more

    $58.49 USD

  • Geographies of Food

    An Introduction

    What is the future of food in light of growing threats from the climate emergency and natural resource depletion, as well as economic and social inequality? This textbook engages with this question, and considers the complex relationships between food, place, and space, providing students with an introduction to the contemporary and future geographies of food and the powerful role that food plays ... Read more

    $36.49 USD

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    Integrating health, environment and society

    For over half a century, food policy has mapped a path for progress based upon a belief that the right mix of investment, scientific input, and human skills could unleash a surge in productive capacity which would resolve humanity's food-related health and welfare problems. It assumed that more food would yield greater health and happiness by driving down prices, increasing availability, and ... Read more

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  • Food in a Changing Climate

    by Alana Mann ...
    Series series SocietyNow
    Our diets are going to change dramatically as global warming affects growing seasons and the availability of different foods around the world. Meanwhile, our foodways are among the biggest contributors to greenhouse gas emissions.To address these challenges Food in a Changing Climate demands we look beyond our plates to the roots of inequity in our food systems. It presents an unashamedly ... Read more

    $21.39 USD

  • Beyond Global Food Supply Chains

    Crisis, Disruption, Regeneration

    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This open access book takes the upheaval of the global COVID-19 pandemic as a springboard from which to interrogate a larger set of structural, environmental and political fault lines running through the global food system. In a context in which disruptions to the production, distribution, and consumption of food are figured as exceptions to the smooth, just-in-time efficiencies of global supply ... Read more

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  • The Short Guide to Environmental Policy

    Series series Short Guides
    Some have argued that the rate and scale of human-induced global environmental change is so significant that it now constitutes a new geological epoch in the Earth’s history called the Anthropocene (Zalasiewicz et al, 2011; Steffen et al, 2011). More than ever, there is a need to have appropriate and effective environmental policies that address the challenges of climate change, biodiversity, food ... Read more

    $26.59 USD

  • A Handbook of Food Crime

    Immoral and Illegal Practices in the Food Industry and What to Do About Them

    Food today is over-corporatized and under-regulated. It is involved in many immoral, harmful, and illegal practices along production, distribution, and consumption systems. These problematic conditions have significant consequences on public health and well-being, nonhuman animals, and the environment, often simultaneously.In this insightful book, Gray and Hinch explore the phenomenon of food ... Read more

    $46.79 USD

  • Food, Globalization and Sustainability

    Food is increasingly traded internationally, thereby transforming the organization of food production and consumption globally and influencing most food-related practices. This transition is generating unfamiliar challenges related to sustainability of food provision, the social impacts of international trade and global food governance. Distance in time and space between food producers and ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Food Security, Nutrition and Sustainability

    As the threats of food insecurity loom ever larger, the world faces the sad irony of food shortages in the global South alongside a purported 'obesity epidemic' in the global North. The twin issues of food production and food access are of particular concern in the context of climate change, 'peak oil', biofuels, and land grabs by wealthy nations.Food Security, Nutrition and Sustainability offers ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Eating, Drinking: Surviving

    The International Year of Global Understanding - IYGU

    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This publication addresses the global challenges of food and water security in a rapidly changing and complex world. The essays highlight the links between bio-physical and socio-cultural processes, making connections between local and global scales, and focusing on the everyday practices of eating and drinking, essential for human survival. Written by international experts, each contribution is ... Read more

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  • Food Wars

    The Global Battle for Mouths, Minds and Markets

    In the years since publication of the first edition of Food Wars much has happened in the world of food policy. This new edition brings these developments fully up to date within the original analytical framework of competing paradigms or worldviews shaping the direction and decision-making within food politics and policy.The key theme of the importance of integrating human and environmental ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Agricultural Governance

    Globalization and the New Politics of Regulation

    Series series Routledge Advances in Sociology
    Food security and sustainability are arguably the most important issues facing the agri-food sector at the beginning of a new millennium. In an era of globalization, where nation states appear to have a diminishing role in governing these matters, the existing and emerging power relations underpinning agri-food regulation demand renewed scholarly attention.Drawing upon the expertise of some of the ... Read more

    $65.99 USD