Overview
- Uniquely interrogates the diversity-blindness of prevailing food sustainability discourses
- Original and compelling insights into local food systems and urban food planning
- Gives voice to the 'invisible'small-scale family farmer
Part of the book series: Urban Agriculture (URBA)
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This volume offers a new perspective to debates on local food and urban sustainability presenting the long silenced voices of the small-scale farmers from the productive green fringe of Sydney’s sprawling urban jungle. Providing fresh food for the city and local employment, these culturally and linguistically diverse farmers contribute not only to Sydney’s globalizing demographic and cultural fabric, but also play a critical role in the city’s environmental sustainability. In the battle for urban space housing development threatens to turn these farmlands into sprawling suburbia. In thinking from and with the urban ‘fringe’, this book moves beyond the housing versus farming debate to present a vision for urban growth that is dynamic and alive to the needs of the 21st century city. In a unique bringing together of the twin forces shaping contemporary urbanism - environmental change and global population flows - the voices from the fringe demand to be heard in the debate on future urban food sustainability.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Farming on the Fringe
Book Subtitle: Peri-Urban Agriculture, Cultural Diversity and Sustainability in Sydney
Authors: Sarah James
Series Title: Urban Agriculture
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-32235-3
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-32233-9Published: 15 September 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-81230-4Published: 08 June 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-32235-3Published: 06 September 2016
Series ISSN: 2197-1730
Series E-ISSN: 2197-1749
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 197
Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations, 19 illustrations in colour
Topics: Agriculture, Human Geography, Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning, Climate Change, Environmental Management, Cultural Heritage