Designing Urban Food Policies : Concepts and Approaches.
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Cham :
Springer International Publishing AG,
2019.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Series: | Urban Agriculture Series
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Table of Contents:
- Intro
- Foreword
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- The Twenty-First Century Heralds the Dawn of a New Era for Cities
- Cities as 'Human Settlements'
- Global and Organic Cities
- Feeding Cities: An Urban Planning Issue
- Emergence of New Urban Food Strategies
- Towards a Conceptual Framework
- References
- Contents
- Urbanization Issues Affecting Food System Sustainability
- Cities, Sustainability and Food Systems: Definitions
- Cities
- Food System
- Food
- Sustainability
- Promoting Sustainable Agriculture to Feed Cities
- Reclosing Fertilization Cycles and Reducing Pollution
- Promoting Employment-Generating Agricultural and Agrifood Models
- Reducing Reliance on Remote Supplies and Reconnecting Cities to Their Hinterlands
- Dependence on International Markets and Risks Associated with Market Volatility
- Cities as Drivers of Agricultural Production
- Rebalancing City/Rural Relationships
- Facilitating the Movement of Goods and Access to Food
- Reducing Last-Kilometre Transportation Costs
- Preventing the Emergence of Food Deserts
- Promoting More Sustainable Urban Food Styles
- To Cope with Food Style Changes Related to Urbanization…
- …the Environmental Cost of Diets Has to be Reduced
- Jointly Combating Obesity and Micronutrient Malnutrition
- Enhancing the Health Quality of Food Consumed by Poor Communities
- Reducing Inequality and Power Asymmetry
- Living Together
- Conclusion
- References
- History of Urban Food Policy in Europe, from the Ancient City to the Industrial City
- The Four Stages of Urbanization in Europe
- Greco-Roman Urban Civilization
- The Golden Age of Mediaeval Cities
- Slow Urban Growth in the Modern Era with the Rise of Nation-States
- The Industrial Revolution Spurs Strong Urban Growth
- Securing Food Supply: Rise and Fall of Urban Policies.
- Special Features of the Mediterranean Food Supply
- The Ancient Annona System in the Mediterranean
- The Annona System in Modern Times
- The Golden Age of Urban Supply Policies: The Middle Ages in Europe
- Rise of the States and Decline of Urban Food Policy
- The Cities' Separation from the Organic World
- Regulation of Food Wholesomeness
- Regulation of Animals' Presence in the City
- From Private Slaughterhouses to Industrial Municipal Abattoirs
- Once Ubiquitous, Animals Are Expelled from the City
- Organic Waste Management
- Ridding the City of Its Waste
- Waste Recycling to Feed the City
- Conclusion
- References
- Cities' Strategies for Sustainable Food and the Levers They Mobilize
- Objectives of Urban Food Policies and Challenges of Urban-Rural Relationships
- Urban Food Policy Levers and Constraints on Their Use
- Involvement of Different Sectors and Respective Governance Models
- Ways to Assess the Success of Urban Food Policies
- Conclusion: Mobilizing Methodological Tools and Drawing Up an New Research Agenda
- References
- Theoretical Approaches for Effective Sustainable Urban Food Policymaking
- Diversity and Complexity
- Food System Approaches
- Systemic and Modelling Approaches
- A Systems Approach to Urban Food Supply and Distribution Systems
- What Are System Dynamics (SD)?
- System Dynamics (SD) Applied to Study Urban Food Systems
- System Dynamics (SD) to Enhance Urban Food Policy
- The Systems Approach for Food Policies in a Nutshell
- Adaptive System
- Territorial Food Systems
- Sustainable City Approaches
- Sustainable City Planning
- Urban Food Planning
- Theory of Social Practices for a Sustainable Multidimensional Urban Food Approach
- Role of Social Practices in Food Policy
- Towards Strategic Management of Social Practices
- Sustainable Development Applied to Urban and Food Issues.
- Towards a Holistic Understanding of Food Systems Via Circles of Social Life
- In Search of an Alternative Holistic Approach
- Defining Social Domains
- Circles of Food in Practice
- Conclusion
- References
- Reconciling Sustainability Issues and Urban Policy Levers
- Local Urban Governments' Scope of Action
- Definition of Levers
- Spatial Planning and Management
- Flow Management
- Promotion of Economic Activities
- Social and Cultural Policy
- Evaluating Leverage in Terms of Sustainability Issues
- Steps for the Construction of Urban Food Policies
- Toward Policymaking on the Urban Food Issue
- An Iterative and Integrative Methodological Approach
- Conclusion
- References
- Putting Food on the Regional Policy Agenda in Montpellier, France
- Putting Food on the Regional Policy Agenda: An Agricultural Prism
- Emergence of Agricultural and Food Insecurity Problems
- Role of Regional State Authorities and the Scientific Community in Handling the Public Food Supply Issue in Montpellier
- Changes in the Regional Political Configuration: A Window of Opportunity for the Food Issue
- Construction of a Regional Agroecology and Food Policy
- The Spark: Political Renewal and Administrative Reform
- Knowledge of the Urban Food System: Partial, Haphazard
- From Assessment to Policymaking: Framework Policy and Adaptive Governance
- Organizational, Political and Territorial Reconfigurations
- Conclusion
- References
- Conclusion.