The Ecology of Food : Sustainable Food Systems and Diets

Name: The Ecology of Food : Sustainable Food Systems and Diets
Brand: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

The Ecology of FoodSustainable Food Systems and Diets\nAuthor(s): Nicolas Bricas, Damien Conar, Marie Walser\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, United Kingdom\nImprint: Bloomsbury Academic\nISBN-13: 9781350544956, 978-1350544956\nSynopsis\nWritten to mark the tenth anniversary of the UNESCO Chair in World Food Systems, this multidisciplinary collection of short, digestible expert essays offers a uniquely rounded introduction to the key contemporary issues around sustainable nutrition.\n\nThe book consists of a clear, five-part structure in which economists, historians, sociologists, physical biologists, and others present a series of reflections on what food is, how it functions in our socieities, how we understand it, and how this has changed over time. Along the way, we discover how current global policies and agro-practices feed into all of this, and we find that reconsidering our nutrition amounts to reconsidering our societies. All authors are leaders in t]