Eating, Drinking : : The International Year of Global Understanding - IYGU.

• Superior document: SpringerBriefs in Global Understanding Series
• Author: Jackson, Peter.
• TeilnehmendeR: Spiess, Walter E. L.; Sultana, Farhana.
• Place / Publishing House: Cham : : Springer International Publishing AG,, 2016.; Ã2016.
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: SpringerBriefs in Global Understanding Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (113 pages)

Table of Contents

Intro -- Series Preface -- Contents -- Contributors -- Abstract -- 1 Introduction: Understanding the Complexities of Eating, Drinking, and Surviving -- Abstract -- The Global Challenges of Food and Water Security -- Approaching the Issues -- Introducing the Essays -- References -- 2 Globalization and Malnutrition: Geographical Perspectives on Its Paradoxes -- Abstract -- References -- 3 Drinking Water -- Abstract -- Introduction: Waiting for Water -- Developing Drinking Water? -- 21st Century Drinking Water -- Resistance: Waiting on Water, Waiting on Development -- References -- 4 The Politics and Consequences of Virtual Water Export -- Abstract -- The Politics of Virtual Water Control -- Local and Multi-scalar Reactions -- References -- 5 Integrated Water Resources Management as a New Approach to Water Security -- Abstract -- Water Availability Is not an Ecological Issue, but a Management Problem Solved at High Social and Ecological Costs -- IWRM: The New Water Management Paradigm -- Water Management Practices: Plumbing and Pumping -- Water Governance as the New Panacea -- References -- 6 Surviving as an Unequal Community: WASH for Those on the Margins -- Abstract -- Water and Sanitation -- The Survival of the Most Vulnerable -- Beyond Surviving to Living with Dignity -- The Sustainable Development Goals -- References -- 7 Challenges to Food Security in a Changing World -- Abstract -- Introduction -- Food Availability and Food Sovereignty -- The Daily Intake -- Important Sources of Energy-Carbohydrates -- Cereals -- Roots and Tubers -- Building the Body: Proteins -- The Backup Source of Energy: Fat -- Micronutrients-Nature's Wonder Drugs -- Drinking -- Biofuel: A Threat to Food Security? -- Conclusion -- References -- 8 Moral Economies of Food in the Socialist/Post-socialist World -- Abstract -- Introduction -- Neoliberal Moral Economies of Food.

Socialist Moral Economies of Food -- Food Sovereignty and Everyday Life in Cuba -- Conclusion: Socialist and Post-socialist Moral Economies of Food -- References -- 9 The Nutrition Transition in Developing Asia: Dietary Change, Drivers and Health Impacts -- Abstract -- What Is the Nutrition Transition? -- Dietary Change in Asia -- Drivers of the Asian Nutrition Transition -- Health Effects of the Nutrition Transition -- Conclusions -- References -- 10 Food Sovereignty and the Possibilities for an Equitable, Just and Sustainable Food System -- Abstract -- References -- 11 Food Security and Food Waste -- Abstract -- References.