Local food systems in old industrial regions [electronic resource] : concepts, spatial context and local practices / edited by Neil Reid, Jay D. Gatrell and Paula S. Ross.

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: IGU Commission on the Dynamics of Economic Spaces
Other Authors: Reid, Neil, 1963 July 7-
Gatrell, Jay D.
Ross, Paula S.
Language:English
Published: Farnham, Surrey, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, c2012.
Series:The dynamics of economic space
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Variant Title:
Local Food Systems in Old Industrial Regions: Concepts, Spatial Context, and Local Practices
Format: Electronic eBook
Contents:
  • Local Food Systems and Old Industrial Regions / Jay D. Gatrell, Neil Reid, and Paula Ross
  • A Systems Modeling Framework for the Role of Agriculture in a Sustainable Urban Ecosystem / Sara Metcalf
  • Social Networks, Ecological Frameworks, and Local Economies / Casey Hoy, Steve Bossserman, and Ross MacDonald
  • Extreme Environments : Urban Farming, Technological Disasters, and a Framework for Rethinking Urban Gardening / Erica Giorda
  • Feeding the Hungry : Analysis of Food Security in Lower Income Urban Communities / Mahbubur R. Meenar
  • Benchmarking Local Food Systems in Older Industrial Regions / James T. Hathaway
  • Urban Food Deserts : Policy Issues, Access, and Planning for a Community Food System / Jeanette Eckert and Sujata Shetty
  • Local Food Systems : The Birth of New Farmers and the Demise of the Family Farm? / Jill K. Clark, Shoshanah Inwood, and Jeff S. Sharp
  • Defining Local Food Systems / Peleg Kremer, Tracy L. DeLiberty, and Yda Schreuder
  • Urban Food Production Limits and the Viability of Community Gardens : the Case of Hartford, Connecticut / C. Patrick Heidkamp, Scott E. Russell, and Meghan Sloan
  • Neoliberalism and Local Food Systems : Understanding the Narrative of Hunger in the United States / Harold Perkins
  • Planning for Sustainable Food Systems : an Analysis of Food System Assessments from the United States and Canada / Marisol Pierce-Quinonez
  • Characterization of the Built Food Environment for Single Parent Households in an Older Industrial City, Lewiston, Maine / David E. Harris, Michelle Vazquez Jacobus, Holly A. Ewing, Sonja K. Pieck, Emily Kane, and Janet Whatley Blum
  • Toward a Relational Geography of Local Food Systems : or Wicked Food Problems Without Quick Spatial Fixes / Neil Reid, Paula Ross, and Jay D. Gatrell
  • Appendix 6.1: List of counties that comprise combined or metropolitan statistical areas
  • Appendix 6.2: Local food index : rankings
  • Appendix 12.1: Goals and Recommendations of Food System Assessments.