Overview
- Provides an overview of sustainable food system research in Canada, the United States, and Mexico, with applications across the globe
- Offers insights helpful to those whose work considers contemporary food systems and their ongoing transformation, including planners, policy-makers working in health, community development, and agriculture, small and medium sized food related enterprises, and civil society organizations
- Community-based research and a case study analytical approach addresses issues at the intersection of food and sustainability studies
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents(13 chapters)
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Need for Transformations
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Pathways to Transformation
About this book
The volume is unique in its focus on approaches and methodologies that both support and recognize the value of community-based practices. Throughout the book the editors identify success stories, challenges and opportunities that link practitioner experience to critical debates in food studies, practice and policy. By making current practices visible to scholars, the volume speaks to people engaged in the co-creation of knowledge, and documents a crucial point in the evolution of a rapidly expanding and dynamic sustainable food systems movement.
Entrenched food insecurity, climate change induced crop failures, rural-urban migration, escalating rates of malnutrition related diseases, and aging farm populations are increasingly common obstacles for communities around the world. Merging private, public and civil society spheres, the book gives voice to actors from across the sustainable food system movement including small businesses, not-for-profits, eaters, farmers and government. Insights into the potential for market restructuring, knowledge sharing, planning and bridging civic-political divides come from across Canada, the United States and Mexico, making this a key resource for policy-makers, students, citizens, and practitioners.
Editors and Affiliations
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Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada
Irena Knezevic
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Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Canada
Alison Blay-Palmer
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Department of Health Sciences, Lakehead University, Thunder Bay, Canada
Charles Z. Levkoe
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Just Food, Ottawa, Canada
Phil Mount
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International Development Studies, University of Guelph, Guelph, Canada
Erin Nelson
About the editors
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Nourishing Communities
Book Subtitle: From Fractured Food Systems to Transformative Pathways
Editors: Irena Knezevic, Alison Blay-Palmer, Charles Z. Levkoe, Phil Mount, Erin Nelson
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-57000-6
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-56999-4Published: 23 June 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-86052-7Published: 02 August 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-57000-6Published: 10 June 2017
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXIII, 206
Number of Illustrations: 4 b/w illustrations, 7 illustrations in colour
Topics: Social Work and Community Development, Sustainable Development, Public Health, Food Science, Development and Health