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 Bioeconomy Approach: Constraints and Opportunities for Sustainable Development
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By Udaya Sekhar Nagothu
September 30, 2021
This book examines the bioeconomy concept, analysing the opportunities it can generate, the constraints and the potential benefits for society. The main objective of bioeconomy is to promote economic development, by creating jobs and enhancing the sustainable utilization of bio-resources. A primary...
Sustainable Food System Assessment: Lessons from Global Practice
1st Edition
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By Alison Blay-Palmer, Damien Conaré, Ken Meter, Amanda Di Battista, Carla Johnston
June 30, 2021
Sustainable Food System Assessment provides both practical and theoretical insights about the growing interest in and response to measuring food system sustainability. Bringing together research from the Global North and South, this book shares lessons learned, explores intended and actual project ...
True Cost Accounting for Food: Balancing the Scale
1st Edition
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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 ...
Plant-Based Diets for Succulence and Sustainability
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By Kathleen May Kevany
March 31, 2021
This collection takes an interdisciplinary look at how the transformation towards plant-based diets is becoming more culturally acceptable, economically accessible, technically available and politically viable. We offer strategies for achieving sustainable food systems without having to forgo ...
Resourcing an Agroecological Urbanism: Political, Transformational and Territorial Dimensions
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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...
Voice and Participation in Global Food Politics
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By Alana Mann
December 18, 2020
As awareness of the commodification of food for profit at the expense of our health and the planet grows, this book foregrounds the communicative dimensions of resistance by food movements. Voice and participation are argued by the author to be the means through which rural and urban communities ...
Civil Society and Social Movements in Food System Governance
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By Peter Andrée, Jill K. Clark, Charles Z. Levkoe, Kristen Lowitt
September 30, 2020
This book offers insights into the governance of contemporary food systems and their ongoing transformation by social movements.As global food systems face multiple threats and challenges there is an opportunity for social movements and civil society to play a more active role in building social ...
Risk and Food Safety in China and Japan: Theoretical Perspectives and Empirical Insights
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By Louis Augustin-Jean, Jean Pierre Poulain
September 30, 2020
Around the world, food has probably never been as safe as it is today. However, periodic crises have aroused consumer anxiety and contributed to a general lack of confidence in the agro-industrial system. The diverse nature of these crises increases governments’ and industry difficulties in ...
Seafood Supply Chains: Governance, Power and Regulation
1st Edition
By Miriam Greenwood
September 30, 2020
This book provides a historical and analytical account of changes in the seafood supply chain in Britain from the mid-twentieth century to the present, looking at the impact of various types of governance.The governance of marine fisheries has been a contested issue for decades with increasing ...
Food and Cooking Skills Education: Why teach people how to cook?
1st Edition
By Anita Tull
August 14, 2020
Food and Cooking Skills Education (FCSE) is a complex mix of policy and practicality, educational theory and pedagogy, classroom and government policy. This book shows how FCSE has been at the centre of a tussle between education and policy for decades. It reviews how FCSE has grappled with various...
Localizing Global Food: Short Food Supply Chains as Responses to Agri-Food System Challenges
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By Agni Kalfagianni, Sophia Skordili
June 30, 2020
Short food supply chains (SFSCs) rely primarily on local production and processing practices for the provision of food and are, in principle, more sustainable in social, economic and environmental terms than supply chains where production and consumption are widely separated.This book ...
Urban Food Systems Governance and Poverty in African Cities
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By Jane Battersby, Vanessa Watson
June 30, 2020
As Africa urbanises and the focus of poverty shifts to urban centres, there is an imperative to address poverty in African cities. This is particularly the case in smaller cities, which are often the most rapidly urbanising, but the least able to cope with this growth. This book argues that an ...