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Sustainable Food Systems
Building a New Paradigm
Series: Earthscan Food and Agriculture
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...
To Be Published December 14th 2013 by Routledge
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The New Regulation and Governance of Food
Beyond the Food Crisis?
Series: Routledge Studies in Human Geography
Major questions surround who, how, and by what means should the interests of government, the private sector, or consumers hold authority and powers over decisions concerning the production and consumption of foods. This book examines the development of food policy and regulation following the BSE (...
Published July 26th 2012 by Routledge
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The Differentiated Countryside
Series: Routledge Studies in Human Geography
In the wake of BSE, the threat to ban fox hunting and Foot and Mouth disease, the English countryside appears to be in turmoil. Long-standing uses of rural space are in crisis and, unsurprisingly, political processes in rural areas are marked by conflicts between groups, such as farmers,...
Published January 8th 2012 by Routledge
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Consuming Interests
The Social Provision of Foods
Combining theory, research and policy Consuming Interests provides a topical interdisciplinary exploration into the nature of food provision, policy and regulation. The book provides a detailed examination of corporate retailers, state agencies and consumer organisations involved in the...
Published September 22nd 1999 by Routledge
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The Condition of Sustainability
This book examines the political economy of sustainable development. The authors consider why most approaches to sustainable development have proved inadequate. Bringing together key ideas from social theory, food regimes and sustainability debates, the book presents a new and more dynamic way of...
Published December 2nd 1998 by Routledge
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Constructuring The Countryside
An Approach To Rural Development
As the first book in the Restructuring Rural Areas series, "Constructing the countryside" presents a new methodological approach to the analysis of rural change. The authors seek to link wider developments in the global political economy to the behaviour of local actors and, in so doing, they place...
Published March 24th 1993 by Routledge