Routledge Studies in Food, Society and the Environment
About the Book Series
This series includes a wide range of inter-disciplinary approaches to food, society and the environment. It includes textbooks, research monographs and titles aimed at professionals, NGOs and policy-makers. Authors or editors of potential new titles should contact Hannah Ferguson, Editor ([email protected]).
Food Justice in American Cities: Stories of Health and Resilience
1st Edition
By Sabine O’Hara
December 01, 2023
***Winner of the World's Best Food Security Book at the Global Gourmand Book Awards 2024*** This book documents food insecurity in urban communities across the United States and asks whether emerging urban food and agriculture initiatives can address the food security needs of American city ...
How to Create a Sustainable Food Industry: A Practical Guide to Perfect Food
1st Edition
By Melissa Barrett, Massimo Marino, Francesca Brkic, Carlo Alberto Pratesi
October 30, 2023
This book presents a practical guide to help businesses navigate the complex topics of sustainability in the food industry. The book takes you on a journey along the food value chain, from farm to fork, exploring key opportunities to increase positive impacts and circularity at each step of the ...
Food Futures in Education and Society
1st Edition
Edited
By Gurpinder Singh Lalli, Angela Turner, Marion Rutland
July 11, 2023
This book brings together a unique collection of chapters to facilitate a broad discussion on food education that will stimulate readers to think about key policies, recent research, curriculum positions and how to engage with key stakeholders about the future of food. Food education has gained ...
Holiday Hunger in the UK: Local Responses to Childhood Food Insecurity
1st Edition
By Michael A. Long, Margaret Anne Defeyter, Paul B. Stretesky
May 31, 2023
This timely and much-needed book focuses on the phenomenon often referred to as "holiday hunger" in the United Kingdom. The book begins by outlining the history and scope of holiday hunger – the condition that occurs when a child’s household is, or will become, food insecure during the summer...
Critical Mapping for Sustainable Food Design: Food Security, Equity, and Justice
1st Edition
By Audrey G. Bennett, Jennifer A. Vokoun
May 02, 2023
This book introduces critical mapping as a problematizing, reflective approach for analyzing systemic societal problems like food, scoping out existing solutions, and finding opportunities for sustainable design intervention. This book puts forth a framework entitled "wicked solutions" that can be ...
Food Loss and Waste Policy: From Theory to Practice
1st Edition
Edited
By Simone Busetti, Noemi Pace
October 07, 2022
This book examines policy responses to food waste and loss, an issue of significant, global concern, with one-third of food produced for human consumption lost or wasted. Investigating food waste and loss under an interdisciplinary lens, the contributors employ a variety of methodological ...
Food, Senses and the City
1st Edition
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By Ferne Edwards, Roos Gerritsen, Grit Wesser
September 26, 2022
This work explores diverse cultural understandings of food practices in cities through the senses, drawing on case studies in the Americas, Asia, Australia, and Europe. The volume includes the senses within the popular field of urban food studies to explore new understandings of how people live in...
The Vegan Evolution: Transforming Diets and Agriculture
1st Edition
By Gregory F. Tague
June 15, 2022
Arguing for a vegan economy, this book explains how we can and should alter our eating habits away from meat and dairy through sociocultural evolution. Using the latest research and ideas about the cultural ecology of food, this book makes the case that through biological and, especially, cultural ...
School Farms: Feeding and Educating Children
1st Edition
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By Alshimaa Aboelmakarem Farag, Samaa Badawi, Gurpinder Lalli, Maya Kamareddine
December 21, 2021
This book highlights the potential of school farms to fight hunger and malnutrition by providing access to locally produced, fresh, and healthy food as well as providing young students with educational opportunities to learn, interact with nature, and develop their skills. Hunger is one of the most...
True Cost Accounting for Food: Balancing the Scale
1st Edition
Edited
By Barbara Gemmill-Herren, Lauren E. Baker, Paula A. Daniels
June 23, 2021
This book explains how True Cost Accounting is an effective tool we can use to address the pervasive imbalance in our food system. Calls are coming from all quarters that the food system is broken and needs a radical transformation. A system that feeds many yet continues to create both extreme ...
Resourcing an Agroecological Urbanism: Political, Transformational and Territorial Dimensions
1st Edition
Edited
By Chiara Tornaghi, Michiel Dehaene
March 08, 2021
Foregrounding an innovative and radical perspective on food planning, this book makes the case for an agroecological urbanism in which food is a key component in the reinvention of new and just social arrangements and ecological practices. Building on state-of-the-art and participatory research on...
Raw Veganism: The Philosophy of The Human Diet
1st Edition
By Carlo Alvaro
February 17, 2020
Human beings are getting fatter and sicker. As we question what we eat and why we eat it, this book argues that living well involves consuming a raw vegan diet. With eating healthfully and eating ethically being simpler said than done, this book argues that the best solution to health, ...