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This volume is a cross-disciplinary and applied approach to urban food system sustainability, health, and equity.
List of contents
1. What You Want, When You Want It? Christopher Bosso Part 1: Ensuring Food Security 2. Food Security as a Human Rights Issue Sandra Raponi 3. Population Density, Poverty, and Food Retail Access in the United States: An Empirical Approach Parke Wilde, Joseph Llobrera, and Michele Ver Ploeg 4. Super-sized Strategies for Improved Health: Does Reducing the Density of Fast Food Restaurants Matter? Bakeyah Nelson and Karen Banks 5. From Food Access to Food Justice: A Case Study of the Somerville Mobile Farmers’ Market Sara Shostak, Janaki Blum, Chris Mancini, Luisa Oliveira, Lisa Robinson, and Erica Satin-Hernandez 6. Farm to Home: Senior Farmers’ Market Nutrition Program Access and Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Home Delivery for Homebound Older Adults Mehreen Ismail and Cara Cuite Part 2: Building Local Food System Sustainability 7. What Grows in East New York: ‘East New York Farms!’ and Expectations of Urban Agriculture Sarita Daftary-Steel, Christine M. Porter, Suzanne Gervais, David Vigil, and Daryl Marshall 8. Feeding Community: A Case Study of a Shared-Use Commercial Kitchen in Eastern Connecticut Hedley Freake and Phoebe Godfrey 9. Developing a Food System-Sensitive Methodology to Transform Food "Waste," Create New Food Businesses, and Address Hunger in Urban Communities Thomas H. O’Donnell, Jonathan Deutsch, Cathy Yungmann, Alexandra Zeitz, and Solomon H. Katz Part 3: Ensuring Food System Resilience 10. Food Safety and the Emergency Food Supply Chain: Lessons from North Carolina Food Pantries Ashley Chaifetz and Benjamin Chapman 11. Creating a Resilience Assessment Framework for Urban Food Systems Kimberly Zeuli and Austin Nijhuis
About the author
Christopher Bosso is Professor of Public Policy and Urban Affairs and Coordinator of the Consortium for Food Systems Sustainability, Health, and Equity at Northeastern University, Boston, USA. His areas of interest include food and environmental policy, science and technology policy, and the governance of emerging technologies.
Summary
This volume is a cross-disciplinary and applied approach to urban food system sustainability, health, and equity.
