Sustainable Food Systems - Building a New Paradigm

"In response to the challenges of a growing population and food security, there is an urgent need to construct a new agri-food sustainability paradigm. This book brings together an integrated range of key social science insights exploring the contributions and interventions necessary to build this framework. Building on over ten years of ESRC funded theoretical and empirical research centered at BRASS, it focuses upon the key social, economic and political drivers for creating a more sustainable food system. Themes include: regulation and governance sustainable supply chains public procurement sustainable spatial strategies associated with rural restructuring and re-calibrated urbanised food systems minimising bio-security risk and animal welfare burdens.The book critically explores the linkages between social science research and the evolving food security problems facing the world at a critical juncture in the debates associated with not only food quality, but also its provenance, vulnerability andthe inherent unsustainability of current systems of production and consumption. Each chapter examines how the links between research, practice and policy can begin to contribute to more sustainable, resilient and justly distributive food systems which would be better equipped to 'feed the world' by 2050"--

Product details

• Authors: Terry Morley Marsden
• Assisted by: Terry Marsden (Editor), Marsden Terry (Editor), Adrian Morley (Editor), Morley Adrian (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 21.01.2014
• EAN: 9780415639545
• ISBN: 978-0-415-63954-5
• No. of pages: 240
• Series: Earthscan Food and Agriculture
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Business > Miscellaneous; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Development / Sustainable Development, NATURE / Natural Resources, NATURE / Ecology, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Environmental Policy, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Environmental Economics, Politics & government, Biodiversity, Environmental Economics, environmental science, engineering & technology, Urban & municipal planning, Environmental Management, Science / Environmental Science, Politics and government, Botany & plant sciences, Agricultural science, Civil engineering, surveying & building, Human Geography, Development Studies, Urban and municipal planning and policy, Environmental science, engineering and technology, Agriculture & Related Industries, Agribusiness and primary industries, Botany and plant sciences, Health & safety issues, Health and safety in the workplace, Civil engineering, surveying and building