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Food and Agricultural Tourism Theory and Best Practice

Food and Agricultural Tourism Theory and Best Practice

This book fills a gap in the growing academic discipline of food and agricultural tourism offering the first multidisciplinary approach to food tourism and the role it plays in economic development destination marketing and gastronomic exploration. It provides a comprehensive introduction to the discipline by considering food tourism in connection with both cultural values and important issues in agriculture food consumption and safety and rural heritage and sustainability. The book is divided into four Parts. Part I defines the elements of food tourism and explains its relationship with sustainability. Part II provides an overview of rural development and demonstrates the impact of industrialization and globalization on eating habits. Part III focuses on food tourism studies and market segmentation techniques to help students understand customer needs regarding food tourism products. Finally Part IV looks at the financial policy and legal requirements relating to food tourism development providing hands-on tools for students entering food tourism businesses or industries. Complemented by a wide range of international case studies key definitions and study questions Food and Agricultural Tourism is essential reading for students of tourism geography and economic development studies. | Food and Agricultural Tourism Theory and Best Practice

GBP 42.99
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Focus on Food Photography for Bloggers Focus on the Fundamentals

Focus on Food Photography for Bloggers Focus on the Fundamentals

Sharing your kitchen concoctions on your personal food blog has never been as popular as it is right now but if you've ever had trouble getting your tasty temptations to look like pretty plates on camera you know how difficult it can be to take amazing pictures of food. Matt Armendariz of Mattbites food blog fame shares his experiences and best practices for creating wonderful food photos in Focus On Food Photography for Bloggers. Written specifically for you the blogger Matt discusses the ins and outs of equipment lighting composition propping sparking your inspiration and getting creative all with what you have on hand at home! Learn how to avoid common pitfalls with foods that are notoriously camera shy how to successfully snap your dinner at a restaurant as well as on your kitchen table and how to style your food with what you have in your cupboards. He also includes advice on post-processing posting and protecting your prized images. As well as on his blog Matt's photography has been featured in The Skinny Bitch Cookbook on Martha Stewart Paula Deen's Best Dishes and Gordon Ramsay's Hell's Kitchen along with numerous food magazines and newspapers. Let this seasoned blogger give your food photography the boost it needs to really make your readers salivate! | Focus on Food Photography for Bloggers Focus on the Fundamentals

GBP 145.00
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Food Systems Law An Introduction for Non-Lawyers

Food Systems Law An Introduction for Non-Lawyers

Food law is a rapidly developing area with interest being driven at the consumer handler and farm level. This introductory textbook provides an overview of the concepts necessary for an understanding of food law and regulations providing the non-specialist reader with a more comprehensive understanding of food systems from production to consumption. Food Systems Law first introduces the US legal system and then moves on to explain the Federal Regulation of Food systems the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) and the Farm Bill the single most important piece of legislation which impacts the way in which federal resources are used within the food industry. The following chapters provide concise explanations of key topics including food safety food labeling organic certification and food waste with examples from US law and policy included. Importantly the book also addresses key topics which overlap with food law such as environmental health and agricultural law. This textbook is geared towards a non-legal audience particularly students of interdisciplinary food studies and food science who are taking food law courses as well as those studying agricultural law food policy and environmental law. It will also be of interest to professionals working in the food industry and those who want to learn more about how food is regulated. | Food Systems Law An Introduction for Non-Lawyers

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Food

Food

In Food John Coveney examines ‘food as … ’ identity politics industry regulation the environment justice and gastronomy. He explores how food helps us understand what it means to be human. The centrality of food in life and the importance of food as life is undeniable. As a source of biological substrates personal pleasure and political power food is and has been an enduring requirement of human biological social and cultural existence. In recent years interest in food has increased across the academic public and popular spheres fuelled by popular media’s constant play on the role of food and body size and food and cooking as a mass spectacle for TV audiences. Through food we construct our social identities our families and communities. However Coveney also highlights the tensions between the industrialisation of food the environment and the iniquitous distribution of food. He also considers how the food industries on which most of us must rely have also had direct effects on our bodies through diet and the development of illness and diseases. This accessible primer is for students and general readers alike indeed for anyone with an interest in food. It questions the idea that food is merely something inert on the plate. Instead it shows how influential symbolic powerful and transformative food has come to be.

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Food for Degrowth Perspectives and Practices

Food for Degrowth Perspectives and Practices

This collection breaks new ground by investigating applications of degrowth in a range of geographic practical and theoretical contexts along the food chain. Degrowth challenges growth and advocates for everyday practices that limit socio-metabolic energy and material flows within planetary constraints. As such the editors intend to map possibilities for food for degrowth to become established as a field of study. International contributors offer a range of examples and possibilities to develop more sustainable localised resilient and healthy food systems using degrowth principles of sufficiency frugal abundance security autonomy and conviviality. Chapters are clustered in parts that critically examine food for degrowth in spheres of the household collectives networks and narratives of broader activism and discourses. Themes include broadening and deepening concepts of care in food provisioning and social contexts; critically applying appropriate technologies; appreciating and integrating indigenous perspectives; challenging notions of 'waste' 'circular economies' and commodification; and addressing the ever-present impacts of market logic framed by growth. This book will be of greatest interest to students and scholars of critical food studies sustainability studies urban political ecology geography environmental studies such as environmental sociology anthropology ethnography ecological economics and urban design and planning. | Food for Degrowth Perspectives and Practices

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True Cost Accounting for Food Balancing the Scale

True Cost Accounting for Food Balancing the Scale

This book explains how True Cost Accounting is an effective tool we can use to address the pervasive imbalance in our food system. Calls are coming from all quarters that the food system is broken and needs a radical transformation. A system that feeds many yet continues to create both extreme hunger and diet-related diseases and one which has significant environmental impacts is not serving the world adequately. This volume argues that True Cost Accounting in our food system can create a framework for a systemic shift. What sounds on the surface like a practice relegated to accountants is ultimately a call for a new lens on the valuation of food and a new relationship with the food we eat starting with the reform of a system out of balance. From the true cost of corn rice and water to incentives for soil health the chapters economically compare conventional and regenerative more equitable farming practices in and food system structures including taking an unflinching look at the true cost of cheap labour. Overall this volume points towards the potential for our food system to be more human-centred than profit-centred and one that has a more respectful relationship to the planet. It sets forth a path forward based on True Cost Accounting for food. This path seeks to fix our current food metrics in policy and in practice by applying a holistic lens that evaluates the actual costs and benefits of different food systems and the impacts and dependencies between natural systems human systems agriculture and food systems. This volume is essential reading for professionals and policymakers involved in developing and reforming the food system as well as students and scholars working on food policy food systems and sustainability. | True Cost Accounting for Food Balancing the Scale

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Canine-Assisted Interventions A Comprehensive Guide to Credentialing Therapy Dog Teams

Canine-Assisted Interventions A Comprehensive Guide to Credentialing Therapy Dog Teams

Covering principles of therapy dog team training assessment skills and ongoing monitoring Canine-Assisted Interventions provides guidance on the most evidence-based methods for therapy dog team welfare training and assessment. The authors offer a linear approach to understanding all aspects of the screening assessment and selection of dog-handler teams by exploring the journey of dog therapy teams from assessment of canines and handlers to the importance of ongoing monitoring recredentialing and retirement. In addition to reviewing key findings within the field of human-animal interactions each chapter emphasizes skills on both the human and dog ends of the leash and makes recommendations for research-informed best practices. To support readers the book culminates with checklists and training resources to serve as a quick reference for readers. This book will be of great interest for practitioners in-service professionals and researchers in the fields of canine-assisted interventions and counseling. | Canine-Assisted Interventions A Comprehensive Guide to Credentialing Therapy Dog Teams

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Community Food Initiatives A Critical Reparative Approach

Community Food Initiatives A Critical Reparative Approach

This book examines a diverse range of community food initiatives in light of their everyday practices innovations and contestations. While community food initiatives aim to tackle issues like food security food waste or food poverty it is a cause for concern for many when they are framed as the next big solution to the problems of the current industrialised food system. They have been critiqued for being too neoliberal elitist and localist; for not challenging structural inequalities (e. g. racism privilege exclusion colonialism capitalism); and for reproducing these inequalities within their own contexts. This edited volume examines the everyday realities of community food initiatives focusing on both their hopes and their troubles their limitations and failures but also their best intentions missions and models alongside their capacity to create hope in difficult times. The stories presented in this book are grounded in contemporary theoretical debates on neoliberalism diverse economies food justice community and inclusion and social innovation and help to sharpen these as conceptual tools for interrogating community food initiatives as sites of both hope and trouble. The novelty of this volume is its focus on the everyday doings of these initiatives in particular places and contexts with different constraints and opportunities. This grounded relational and place-based approach allows us to move beyond more traditional framings in which community food initiatives are either applauded for their potential or criticized for their limitations. It enables researchers and practitioners to explore how community food initiatives can realize their potential for creating alternative food futures and generates innovative pathways for theorising the mutual interplay of food production and consumption. This volume will be of great interest to students and scholars of critical food studies food security public health and nutrition as well as human geographers sociologists and anthropologists with an interest in food. | Community Food Initiatives A Critical Reparative Approach

GBP 130.00
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The Psychology of Dog Ownership

The Psychology of Dog Ownership

What are the benefits of owning a dog on health and well-being? Why does a problem dog behave as it does and how can owners deal with unwanted behaviour? How do dogs communicate with humans and each other? The Psychology of Dog Ownership explores the nature of our unique relationship with dogs and its effect on our mental and physical welfare. The book uses psychological learning theory to examine dog behaviour and highlights the importance of determining between typical dog behaviour and behaviour disorders that need treatment. Focusing on how dog owners can communicate effectively with their pets and always with the dogsbest interests in mind The Psychology of Dog Ownership enhances our understanding of the modern human-canine bond and shows how important and enjoyable this relationship can be.

GBP 12.99
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Public Policies for Food Sovereignty Social Movements and the State

Public Policies for Food Sovereignty Social Movements and the State

An increasing number of rural and urban-based movements are realizing some political traction in their demands for democratization of food systems through food sovereignty. Some are pressuring to institutionalize food sovereignty principles and practices through laws policies and programs. While the literature on food sovereignty continues to grow in volume and complexity there are a number of key questions that need to be examined more deeply. These relate specifically to the processes and consequences of seeking to institutionalize food sovereignty: What dimensions of food sovereignty are addressed in public policies and which are left out? What are the tensions losses and gains for social movements engaging with sub-national and national governments? How can local governments be leveraged to build autonomous spaces against state and corporate power? The contributors to this book analyze diverse institutional processes related to food sovereignty ranging from community-supported agriculture to food policy councils direct democracy initiatives to constitutional amendments the drafting of new food sovereignty laws to public procurement programmes as well as Indigenous and youth perspectives in a variety of contexts including Brazil Ecuador Spain Switzerland UK Canada USA and Africa. Together the contributors to this book discuss the political implications of integrating food sovereignty into existing liberal political structures and analyze the emergence of new political spaces and dynamics in response to interactions between state governance systems and social movements voicing the radical demands of food sovereignty. | Public Policies for Food Sovereignty Social Movements and the State

GBP 42.99
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Food and Nutrition Sustainable food and health systems

Food and Nutrition Sustainable food and health systems

Food-how we produce prepare share and consume it-is fundamental to our wellbeing. It also connects the human body to the complex and dynamic systems of our environment. This is more significant than ever before in human history as climate change and increasing population impact on global ecosystems. This fourth edition of Food and Nutrition has been completely rewritten to reflect an ecosystems approach to human health. It is shaped around four dimensions of human nutrition: biology society environment and economy. Food and Nutrition provides a comprehensive overview of food components and the biochemistry of foods and digestion. It outlines nutrition needs at different life stages dietary disorders and social and cultural influences on food selection and consumption. It also explores the increasing influence of technology on agriculture and food preparation and recent research into intergenerational nutrition and nutrigenomics. At every stage it points to how you can impact your own health and the health of others as a global citizen and as a health or other food-system-related professional. Extensively illustrated with informative graphs diagrams and data and with examples glossaries and reflective exercises Food and Nutrition is the ideal introduction to the field of nutrition and dietetics for the 21st century and a valuable professional reference for early career dietitians. | Food and Nutrition Sustainable food and health systems

GBP 34.99
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Britain's Food Supplies

Britain's Food Supplies

Originally published in 1952. In this fascinating book that examines the statistics the term food supplies is interpreted in a wide sense and it deals among other matters with such subjects as supplies from home agriculture and from overseas; food consumption; controls rationing and price regulations and Government purchasing of food. Included are chapters on world food supplies international organizations concerned with food and agriculture and development schemes in the Commonwealth and colonies. Food supply from the eighteenth century onwards is outlined and the dependence on imported food is discussed. | Britain's Food Supplies

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Digital Food Cultures

Digital Food Cultures

This book explores the interrelations between food technology and knowledge-sharing practices in producing digital food cultures. Digital Food Cultures adopts an innovative approach to examine representations and practices related to food across a variety of digital media: blogs and vlogs (video blogs) Facebook Instagram YouTube technology developers’ promotional media online discussion forums and self-tracking apps and devices. The book emphasises the diversity of food cultures available on the internet and other digital media from those celebrating unrestrained indulgence in food to those advocating very specialised diets requiring intense commitment and focus. While most of the digital media and devices discussed in the book are available and used by people across the world the authors offer valuable insights into how these global technologies are incorporated into everyday lives in very specific geographical contexts. This book offers a novel contribution to the rapidly emerging area of digital food studies and provides a framework for understanding contemporary practices related to food production and consumption internationally.

GBP 29.99
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Food Pedagogies

Food Pedagogies

In recent years everyone from politicians to celebrity chefs has been proselytizing about how we should grow buy prepare present cook taste eat and dispose of food. In light of this contributors to this book argue that food has become the target of intensified pedagogical activity across a range of domains including schools supermarkets families advertising and TV media. Illustrated with a range of empirical studies this edited and interdisciplinary volume - the first book on food pedagogies - develops innovative and theoretical perspectives to problematize the practices of teaching and learning about food. While many different pedagogues - policy makers churches activists health educators schools tourist agencies chefs - think we do not know enough about food and what to do with it the aims effects and politics of these pedagogies has been much less studied. Drawing on a range of international studies diverse contexts genres and different methods this book provides new sites of investigation and lines of inquiry. As a result of its broad ranging critical evaluation of ’food as classroom’ and ’food as teacher’ it provides theoretical resources for opening up the concept of pedagogy and assessing the moralities and politics of teaching and learning about food in the classroom and beyond.

GBP 44.99
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How to Create a Sustainable Food Industry A Practical Guide to Perfect Food

How to Create a Sustainable Food Industry A Practical Guide to Perfect Food

This book presents a practical guide to help businesses navigate the complex topics of sustainability in the food industry. The book takes you on a journey along the food value chain from farm to fork exploring key opportunities to increase positive impacts and circularity at each step of the journey. Written by a team of authors with decades of experience in the food industry and academia it provides guidance on how to analyse sustainability across the value chain and life cycle of a food product and how to design implement and communicate strategies to customers. Furthermore the book shows that there are not always straightforward solutions but rather choices and trade-offs that require an understanding of what is best suited to the product customers and business in question. It demystifies a variety of topics such as local sourcing regenerative agriculture plant-based protein and the environmental impact of meat production and draws on a wide range of case studies from across the globe to provide concrete real-world examples. While a perfect food system may not exist informed decisions can go a long way to reshape and transform the food industry as we know it. This book will be of great interest to professionals working in the food and agriculture industries as well as students and scholars of sustainable food systems and sustainable business. | How to Create a Sustainable Food Industry A Practical Guide to Perfect Food

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Best Practices for Environmental Health Environmental Pollution Protection Quality and Sustainability

Best Practices for Environmental Health Environmental Pollution Protection Quality and Sustainability

In a present where there are countless opportunities for the spread of exotic diseases the expansion and creation of far more illness in our global population through globalization and rapid transportation and the contamination of water air and land we find ourselves accountable. In this day and age we are confronted by global warming Ebola the Zika virus lead in our water supply enormous problems of infrastructure including aging sewer lines water lines electrical grids roads and bridges and the list goes on and on. Best Practices for Environmental Health: Environmental Pollution Protection Quality and Sustainability is a one source major response to all of the environmental issues that affect global health and the worldwide protection and preservation of the natural environment. It compiles broad-based and comprehensive coverage of environmental topics broken down by specialized fields. Topics range from children’s environmental health to food protection and technology water and waste systems infection control bioterrorism and pandemic health emergencies and HAZMAT. Plus it includes an overview of the current state of the profession and sections on programmatic techniques. This book helps solve the problems of disease and injury by presenting expert evidence-based best practices. This first of the kind handbook is essential reading for all environmental and public health undergraduate students as well as a fantastic overview for professionals in all environmental health pollution and protection areas. | Best Practices for Environmental Health Environmental Pollution Protection Quality and Sustainability

GBP 48.99
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Food and Mental Health A Guide for Health Professionals

Food and Mental Health A Guide for Health Professionals

Written by an experienced psychotherapist this book provides professionals in the fields of health and wellbeing with a guide to human relationships with food and their impact on mental health. Acknowledging how food choices profoundly effect a person’s experience in the world Gerrie Hughes offers knowledge and support around how to understand and negotiate the relationship between food and mind. Chapters offers facts information and theories on key topics such as self-image ‘good’ nutrition sustainability and rituals. Each chapter uses vignettes case studies and reflective activities to stimulate thought about the reader’s own assumptions and experience and offer approaches to how they might use their expertise with the people with whom they work. Providing an accessible and easy to read guide into the role food plays in our lives this book will be of interest to a range of healthcare practitioners including mental health nurses occupational therapists psychotherapists and counsellors. | Food and Mental Health A Guide for Health Professionals

GBP 31.99
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Localizing Global Food Short Food Supply Chains as Responses to Agri-Food System Challenges

Localizing Global Food Short Food Supply Chains as Responses to Agri-Food System Challenges

Short food supply chains (SFSCs) rely primarily on local production and processing practices for the provision of food and are in principle more sustainable in social economic and environmental terms than supply chains where production and consumption are widely separated. This book reviews and assesses recent initiatives on this topic from an interdisciplinary perspective. In theoretical terms it draws on and advances two key concepts namely place (particularly embeddedness in local economic networks and communities) and governance (particularly in addressing sustainability concerns in an inclusive and socially just manner). Empirically the book examines a diverse set of SFSCs such as small-scale entrepreneurship farmers’ markets community supported agriculture and grassroots and solidarity networks. The main examples discussed are from Europe and North America but the issues are applicable in a global context. The book is of interest to advanced students researchers and professionals in food studies sociology geography planning politics and environmental studies. | Localizing Global Food Short Food Supply Chains as Responses to Agri-Food System Challenges

GBP 38.99
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The Sociology of Food and Agriculture

The Sociology of Food and Agriculture

Thoroughly revised and updated the third edition of The Sociology of Food and Agriculture provides a cutting-edge comprehensive introduction to the study of food and society. The book begins by examining the food economy with chapters focusing on foodscapes the financialization of food and a new chapter dedicated to food and nutrition (in)security. In Part II the book addresses community and culture. While some books only look at the interrelationships between food and culture this section problematizes the food system from the standpoint of marginalized bodies. It contains chapters focusing on agricultural and food labor and the peasantries topics which are often overlooked and gender ethnicity and poverty. Part III examines food and the environment with chapters addressing important topics such as agro-ecosystems food justice sustainable food and agriculture and food sovereignty. The final part focuses on food futures and includes a brand-new chapter on sustainable diets and ethical consumption. The book concludes by showcasing how we can rethink food production and consumption in a way that can help heal social political and cultural divisions. All chapters draw on international case studies and include learning objectives suggested discussion questions and recommendations for further reading to aid student learning. The Sociology of Food and Agriculture is perfect for students of food studies including food justice food and nutrition security sustainable diets food sovereignty environmental sociology agriculture and cultural studies.

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China's Global Quest for Resources Energy Food and Water

China's Global Quest for Resources Energy Food and Water

The world’s key resources of energy food and water which are closely connected and interdependent on each other are coming under increasing pressure as a result of increasing population development and climate change. In the case of China following its recent economic surge energy food and water are already nearing the point of shortage. This book considers how China is working to avoid shortages of energy food and water and the effect this is having internationally. Subjects covered include domestic policy debates on China’s resource strategies challenges for managing transboundary waters related to China responses from various regions and countries to China’s ‘Go Out’ strategy and China’s increasing energy links with Russia and declining agricultural trade with the United States. The book concludes by discussing in comparative perspective China’s outward resource acquisition activities and the consequent policy implications. | China's Global Quest for Resources Energy Food and Water

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Food in World History

Food in World History

Now in its third edition Food in World History explores culinary cultures and food politics throughout the world from ancient times to the present day with expanded discussions of industrialization indigeneity colonialism gender environment and food and power. It examines the long history of globalization of foods as well as the political social and environmental implications of our changing relationship with food showing how hunger and taste have been driving forces in human history. Including numerous case studies from diverse societies and periods such as Maya and Inca cuisines and peasant agriculture in the early modern era Food in World History explores such questions as: What social factors have historically influenced culinary globalization? How did early modern plantations establish patterns for modern industrial food production? How will the climate crisis affect food production and culinary cultures? Did Italian and Chinese migrant cooks sacrifice authenticity to gain social acceptance in the Americas? Have genetically modified foods fulfilled the promises made by proponents? With the inclusion of more global examples this comprehensive survey is an ideal resource for all students who study food history or food studies.

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Net Zero Food and Farming Climate Change and the UK Agri-Food System

Net Zero Food and Farming Climate Change and the UK Agri-Food System

This book examines the implications of the net zero transition for food and farming in the UK and how these can be managed to avoid catastrophic climate change in the crucial decades ahead. For the UK to meet its international obligations for reducing greenhouse gas emissions nothing short of a revolution is required in our use of land our farming practices and our diet. Taking a historical approach the book examines the evolution of agriculture and the food system in the UK over the last century and discusses the implications of tackling climate change for food farming and land use setting the UK situation in an international context. The chapters analyse the key challenges for this transition including dietary change and food waste afforestation and energy crops and low-emission farming practices. This historical perspective helps develop an understanding of how our food farming and land use system has evolved to be the way that it is and draws lessons for how the agri-food system could evolve further to support the transition to net zero and avoid catastrophic climate change. Written in a clear and accessible style this book will be essential reading to students and scholars of food agriculture and the environment as well as policymakers and professionals involved climate change policy and the agriculture and food industry. | Net Zero Food and Farming Climate Change and the UK Agri-Food System

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Sustainable Urban Agriculture and Food Planning

Sustainable Urban Agriculture and Food Planning

As urban populations rise rapidly and concerns about food security increase interest in urban agriculture has been renewed in both developed and developing countries. This book focuses on the sustainable development of urban agriculture and its relationship to food planning in cities. It brings together the best revised and updated papers from the Sixth Association of European Schools of Planning (AESOP) conference on Sustainable Food Planning. The main emphasis is on the latest research and thinking on spatial planning and design showing how urban agriculture provides opportunities to develop and enhance the spatial quality of urban environments. Chapters address various topics such as a new theoretical model for understanding urban agriculture how urban agriculture contributes to restoring our connections to nature and the limitations of the garden city concept to food security. Case studies are included from several European countries including Bulgaria France Germany Italy Netherlands Romania Spain Turkey and the UK as well as Australia Canada Cameroon Ethiopia and the United States (New York and Los Angeles). | Sustainable Urban Agriculture and Food Planning

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