Socio-Metabolic Perspectives on the Sustainability of Local Food Systems
- Springer International Publishing
- 2018
- Gebunden
- 384 Seiten
- ISBN 9783319692357
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 people with gradually meat heavier diets will demand growth in food production, whilst our increasingly industrialized and globalized agri-food system has already caused serious sustainability problems in the past. This calls for a change in the way we produce, distribute and consume food. A re- emerging debate on food security and food sovereignty seems to support this quest. But what are the promising alternatives to
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