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]).
The Real Cost of Cheap Food
3rd Edition
By Michael Carolan
September 11, 2024
This thought-provoking, accessible book critically examines the dominant food regime on its own terms, by seriously asking whether we can afford cheap food and by exploring what exactly cheap food affords us. The author shows why today's global food system produces just the opposite of what it ...
Transforming Food Systems: Narratives of Power
1st Edition
By Molly D. Anderson
July 04, 2024
This book focuses on the contested nature and competing narratives of food system transformations, despite it being widely acknowledged that changes are essential for the safeguarding of human and planetary health and well-being. The book approaches food system transformation through narratives, or...
American Farming Culture and the History of Technology
1st Edition
By Joshua T. Brinkman
May 06, 2024
Presenting a history of agriculture in the American Corn Belt, this book argues that modernization occurred not only for economic reasons but also because of how farmers use technology as a part of their identity and culture. Histories of agriculture often fail to give agency to farmers in bringing...
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
Edited
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
Edited
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...