1st Edition

Sustainable Food Systems Building a New Paradigm

Edited By Terry Marsden, Adrian Morley Copyright 2014
256 Pages
by Routledge

256 Pages 26 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

256 Pages 26 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

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... Read more

1. Current Food Questions and their Scholarly Challenges: Creating and Framing a Sustainable Food Paradigm

Terry Marsden & Adrian Morley

2. Food Futures: Framing the Crisis

Adrian Morley, Jesse McEntee & Terry Marsden

3. European Food Governance: The Contrary Influences of Market Liberalization and Agricultural Exceptionalism

Bob Lee

4. The Public Plate: Harnessing the Power of Purchase

Kevin Morgan & Adrian Morley

5. Sustainable Food Supply Chains: The Dynamics for Change

Andrew Flynn & Kate Bailey

6. Biosecurity and the Bioeconomy: The Case of Disease Regulation in the UK & New Zealand

Gareth Enticott

7. Improving Animal Welfare in Europe: Cases of Comparative Bio-sustainabilities

Mara Miele & John Lever

8. Exploring the New Rural-urban Interface: Community Food Practice, Land Access and Farmer Entrepreneurialism

Alex Franklin & Selyf Morgan

9. The "New Frontier"? Urban Strategies for Food Security and Sustainability

Roberta Sonnino & Jessica Jane Spayde

10. Conclusions: Building the Food Sustainability Paradigm: Research Needs, Complexities, Opportunities

Terry Marsden

Biography

Terry Marsden is Director of the Sustainable Places Research Institute and Co-Director of the ESRC Centre for Business Relationships, Accountability, Sustainability & Society (BRASS), Cardiff University, UK.