Food and sustainability in the twenty-first century : cross-disciplinary perspectives /

"Sustainability is one of the great problems facing food production today. Using cross-disciplinary perspectives from international scholars working in social, cultural and biological anthropology, ecology and environmental biology, this volume brings many new perspectives to the problems we fa...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Collinson, Paul, 1969- (Editor ), Young, Iain (Editor ), Antal, Lucy (Editor ), Macbeth, Helen (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Berghahn Books, 2019.
Colección:Anthropology of food and nutrition.
Temas:
Nutritional anthropology > Case studies.
Food habits > Environmental aspects > Case studies.
Food supply > Environmental aspects > Case studies.
Food security > Environmental aspects > Case studies.
Anthropologie de l'alimentation > Études de cas.
Habitudes alimentaires > Aspect de l'environnement > Études de cas.
Sécurité alimentaire > Aspect de l'environnement > Études de cas.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Industries > General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Agriculture & Food
Food supply > Environmental aspects.
Nutritional anthropology.
Case studies.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Preface / Paul Collinson, Iain Young, Lucy Antal and Helen Macbeth
  • Introduction : food and sustainability in the twenty-first century / Paul Collinson, Iain Young, Lucy Antal and Helen Macbeth
  • Towards a cross-disciplinary approach to food and sustainability in the twenty-first century / Paul Collinson, Iain Young, Lucy Antal and Helen Macbeth
  • Food insecurity and sustainability in Sub-Saharan Africa / Paul Collinson
  • From healthy to sustainable : transforming the concept of the Mediterranean diet from health to sustainability through culture / F. Xavier Medina
  • Cultures of sustainability in the anthropocene : understanding organic food in Palermo / Giovanni Orlando
  • Wild phytogenetic resources for food in the Barranca del Río Santiago, Mexico : a first approach to sustainability / Martin Tena Meza, Rafael M. Navarro-Cerrillo, Ricardo Avila Palafox, Raymundo Villavicencio Garcia
  • Farm urban and urban aquaponics : changing perceptions in classrooms and communities / Iain Young
  • 'Dig for sustainability' in the twenty-first century : allotments, gardens and television / Helen Macbeth
  • Food and sustainability in the twenty-first century : how places in the UK are working to meet this challenge / Lucy Antal
  • Food and the poblem of uncertainty : refugees and the sense of sustainability : the case of Karen farmers returning to their villages from refugee camps along the Thai-Burmese border / Peter Kaiser
  • In praise of a fermented bread : an Ethiopian recipe for frugal sustainability / Valentina Peveri
  • The Indian 'meat dilemma' : malnutrition, social hierarchy and ecological sustainability / Michael Bruckert
  • Eating outside the home : food practices as a consequence of economic crisis in Spain / Maria Gracia-Arnaiz
  • First steps in developing a food waste management strategy in a UK higher education institution : the University of Liverpool case study / Nick Doran and Iain Young
  • The demand for sustainable ways of dealing with waste from agriculture and aquaculture / Iain Young.

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