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.

Contributor(s): Series: Dynamics of economic spacePublication details: Farnham ; Burlington, Vt. : Ashgate, c2012.Description: xvii, 264 p. : illSubject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 338.1/9 23
LOC classification:
  • HD9000.5 .L64 2012eb
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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.
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Papers from the International Geographical Union's Commission on the Dynamics of Economic Spaces' residential conference held in Toledo, Ohio in 2010.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

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