Food Culture, Consumption and Society [electronic resource] /
Corvo, Paolo.author.
This book analyses how consumer food choices have undergone profound changes in the context of the economic crisis, including the rediscovery of local products and the diffusion of multi-ethnic food. Corvo argues that a new ecological relationship between food and the environment is needed to reduce food problems such as food waste and obesity.
Description based upon print version of record.
Introduction -- Food Culture and Society -- Crisis and Theories of Food Consumption -- Problematics of Food -- Food, Environment and Quality of Life.
This book analyses how consumer food choices have undergone profound changes in the context of the economic crisis, including the rediscovery of local products and the diffusion of multi-ethnic food. Corvo argues that a new ecological relationship between food and the environment is needed to reduce food problems such as food waste and obesity.
Economic sociology.
Environmental sociology.
Area studies.
Social medicine.
Economic development.
Sociology.
Organizational Studies, Economic Sociology.
Environmental Sociology.
Area Studies.
Medical Sociology.
Development Studies.
Sociology, general.