Local food systems in old industrial regions
Subtitle: concepts, spatial context and local practices
By: edited by Neil Reid, Jay D. Gatrell and Paula S. Ross
Contributors: IGU Commission on the Dynamics of Economic Spaces
Series: The dynamics of economic space
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Farnham, Surrey, England; Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 264
ISBN-13: 9781409432210; 9781409432227
Subjects: Public spaces; Congresses; Food supply; Urban agriculture; Local foods; Community-supported agriculture; Deindustrialization
Notes: Papers from the International Geographical Union's Commission on the Dynamics of Economic Spaces' residential conference held in Toledo, Ohio in 2010.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Local Food Systems and Old Industrial Regions / Jay D. Gatrell, Neil Reid, and Paula Ross; title: A Systems Modeling Framework for the Role of Agriculture in a Sustainable Urban Ecosystem / Sara Metcalf; title: Social Networks, Ecological Frameworks, and Local Economies / Casey Hoy, Steve Bossserman, and Ross MacDonald; title: Extreme Environments : Urban Farming, Technological Disasters, and a Framework   for Rethinking Urban Gardening / Erica Giorda; title: Feeding the Hungry : Analysis of Food Security in Lower Income Urban Communities / Mahbubur R. Meenar; title: Benchmarking Local Food Systems in Older Industrial Regions / James T. Hathaway; title: Urban Food Deserts : Policy Issues, Access, and Planning for a Community Food System / Jeanette Eckert and Sujata Shetty; title: Local Food Systems : The Birth of New Farmers and the Demise of the Family Farm? / Jill K. Clark, Shoshanah Inwood, and Jeff S. Sharp; title: Defining Local Food Systems / Peleg Kremer, Tracy L. DeLiberty, and Yda Schreuder; title: Urban Food Production Limits and the Viability of Community Gardens : the Case of Hartford, Connecticut / C. Patrick Heidkamp, Scott E. Russell, and Meghan Sloan; title: Neoliberalism and Local Food Systems : Understanding the Narrative of Hunger in the United States / Harold Perkins; title: Planning for Sustainable Food Systems : an Analysis of Food System Assessments from the United States and Canada / Marisol Pierce-Quinonez; title: Characterization of the Built Food Environment for Single Parent Households in an Older Industrial City, Lewiston, Maine / David E. Harris, Michelle Vazquez Jacobus, Holly A. Ewing, Sonja K. Pieck, Emily Kane, and Janet Whatley Blum; title: Toward a Relational Geography of Local Food Systems : or Wicked Food Problems Without Quick Spatial Fixes / Neil Reid, Paula Ross, and Jay D. Gatrell; title: Appendix 6.1: List of counties that comprise combined or metropolitan statistical areas; title: Appendix 6.2: Local food index : rankings; title: Appendix 12.1: Goals and Recommendations of Food System Assessments.