Sustainable food systems : : the role of the city / / Robert Biel.
Faced with a global threat to food security, it is perfectly possible that society will respond, not by a dystopian disintegration, but rather by reasserting co-operative traditions. This book, by a leading expert in urban agriculture, offers a genuine solution to today's global food crisis. By...
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| Place / Publishing House: | London : : UCL Press,, 2016. |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Language: | English |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (vi, 145 pages) |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Searching for a new model of food and farming
- The mainstream farming paradigm : what went wrong?
- How systems change : crisis and rift
- Embracing complexity : the earth system, land and soil
- Dialectics of a (re)discovered sustainability
- Political dimensions : agriculture and class struggle
- Towards a new paradigm : practical guidelines
- Regenerating the earth system, working with climate
- Food, imperialism and dependency
- Built systems, biomimicry and urban food-growing
- Autonomy, radicalism and the commons.