Designing Urban Food Policies : : Concepts and Approaches.

• Superior document: Urban Agriculture Series
• Author: Brand, Caroline.
• TeilnehmendeR: Bricas, Nicolas.; Conaré, Damien.; Daviron, Benoit.; Debru, Julie.; Michel, Laura.; Soulard, Christophe-Toussaint.
• Place / Publishing House: Cham : : Springer International Publishing AG,, 2019.; ©2019.
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Urban Agriculture Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (159 pages)

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.