Routledge Handbook of Urban Food Governance

1. Towards urban food governance for more sustainable and just futures

Ana Moragues-Faus, Jill K. Clark, Jane Battersby and Anna Davies

Section 1: Histories of Urban Food Governance

2. The Role of Food Systems in Shaping Western Civilisation

Carolyn Steel

3. Urban change and the multi-scalar politics of food systems in colonial Africa

James Duminy

4. The historical role of cities in recursively shaping global food systems: Southeast Asia

Gisèle Yasmeen

Section 2: Frames, theories and concepts of urban food governance

5. Social practice theories and urban food governance: from problem framing to designing collaborative change initiatives

Marlyne Sahakian and Stefan Wahlen

6. Feminist Ethics of Care in Urban Food Governance

Miriam J. Williams and Emma L. Sharp

7. Urban food democracy

Basil Bornemann and Sabine Weiland

8. Governing and communing activities around urban food commons

9. Justice, Race, and Urban Food Governance

10. Conceptualisations of urban food governance

Jess Halliday

11. Exploring Urban Foodscapes via Feminist Political Ecology

12. Innovation theory and urban food governance: transition thinking, social innovation and transformative change

13. Relationships between Food Policy Councils and Government in the United States

14. Food　Policy Councils and governance partnerships in African urban contexts

15. Conceptualizing and Exploring U.S. Urban Food Policy

16. Strategies for institutionalizing food systems planning

17. Public Procurement as a Tool in Urban Food Governance in Brazil

18. Can Participatory Budgeting Be a Tool in Urban Food Governance

Cecilia Rocha and Luciene Burlandy

19. The Formal and Informal Governance of Urban Food Waste in Cities: Case Studies in the United States and Indonesia

20. Perspective from an African city: Food market governance in Dar es Salaam

21. Urban Agriculture Practice, Policy, and Governance

22. The role of the private sector in urban food governance

23. Governing Urban Land for Community Food Cultivation

24. Why small towns matter: rural-urban linkages and food systems in the Global South

25. The City Region Food System Approach: Broadening the space for urban governance

26. International Agendas and Urban Food System Governance: Informing, integrating and operationalizing the SDGs

27. Role of transnational city food networks in supporting urban food transformation.

28. Towards Governance for Open Urban Food Futures

Jaz Hee-jeong Choi, Sara Heitlinger, Alex Taylor, Viktor Bedö

29. Embedding futures in urban food governance: participatory foresight in Eindhoven and Kyoto

Aniek Hebinck, Joost Vervoort, Astrid Mangnus and Steven R. McGreevy

30. More-than-Human Computer Interaction for Urban Food Governance

Sara Heitlinger, Lara Houston, Jaz Hee-jeong Choi, Alex Taylor and Ruth Catlow

31. A brief history of speculative design and urban food governance

Serena Pollastri

32. Towards good food landscapes: The intrinsic links between continuous productive urban landscapes and food governance

Katrin Bohn and André Viljoen

Biography

Ana Moragues-Faus is a Senior Research Fellow in the School of Economics and Business at the University of Barcelona.

Jill K. Clark is Associate Professor in the John Glenn College of Public Affairs at Ohio State University.

Jane Battersby is a Senior Lecturer in Environmental and Geographical Science at the University of Cape Town.

Anna Davies is Professor of Geography, Environment and Society at Trinity College Dublin.

"Cities are emerging powerhouses of food systems transformation. The Handbook of Urban Food Governance takes readers on a journey through a plethora of examples, providing a diversity of ideas of how to govern cities for better food systems. Recommended for anyone looking for a sense of hope and possibility."

Professor Corinna Hawkes, Director Centre for Food Policy, City, University of London

"Anyone interested in urban development and food systems transformation will treasure this book, which is a unique resource for understanding the crucial issue of urban food governance, and get inspired from various practices and innovative and inclusive forms of collaborative food governance."

Cecilia Marocchino, Urban Food Agenda Coordinator, FAO, Rome

"The Handbook of Urban Food Governance provides readers with frameworks and examples of how cities around the globe are redefining food governance. Those interested in more equitable sub-national food policy – such as urban planners – will find the book especially useful in guiding professional practice."

Professor Samina Raja, Urban and Regional Planning and Director, Food Systems Planning and Healthy Communities Lab