Socio-Metabolic Perspectives on the Sustainability of Local Food Systems Insights for Science, Policy and Practice /

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Fraňková, Eva (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Haas, Willi (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Singh, Simron J. (Επιμελητής έκδοσης)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
• Σειρά: Human-Environment Interactions, 7
• Θέματα: Life sciences.; Regional planning.; Urban planning.; Agriculture.; Applied ecology.; Sustainable development.; Natural resources.; Life Sciences.; Applied Ecology.; Sustainable Development.; Natural Resources.; Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning.

This book delves into diverse local food systems and critically assesses their ecological and societal benefits and trade-offs, their limits and opportunities for improving sustainability of food production, and framework conditions which either hinder or promote their development.  More and more pe...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Foreword
• Introduction.-PART I Social Metabolism and Local Food Systems: Key Concepts
• Chapter 1.1 In Search of Local Sustainable Agro-food Systems
• Chapter 1.2 Towards an Energy–Landscape Integrated Analysis (ELIA) in agroecosystems
• Chapter 1.3 Integrating indicators of energy efficiency, power and social metabolism for sustainability assessment of farming and food systems
• PART II Social Metabolism and Local Food Systems: Case studies beyond North and South
• Chapter 2.1 Sustainability challenges of pre-industrial food systems: Insights from Long-Term Socio-Ecological Research in Austria
• Chapter 2.2 From vineyards to feedlots: Socio-metabolic transition of the Vallés County (1860-1950-1999)
• Chapter 2.3 Learnings from an Austrian rural case to foster leapfrogging unsustainable practices in industrializing countries
• Chapter 2.4  Leapfrogging conventional development? Innovations to overcome sustainability constraints in a small-farmer village, Cambodia
• Chapter 2.5 Social and financial metabolism of a small-scale organic farm: looking for sustainability at local level
• Chapter 2.6 Towards more sustainable diets? A socioecological reading of food consumption patterns on a Greek island
• Chapter 2.7 Local and Global food supply chains. Is their comparison meaningful? Lessons learned from an organic tomato case study
• Chapter 2.8 Closing nutrient cycles in the city of Madrid: intersection of grey and green infrastructure systems
• Conclusions: What pathways exist for sustainable agro-food systems?