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  • Urban Natures

    Living the More-than-Human City

    Edited by Lucia Alexandra Popartan, Ida Nilstad Pettersen, Ferne Edwards ...
    Series Book 1 - Urban Anthropology Unbound
    Efforts to create greener urban spaces have historically taken many forms, often disorganized and undisciplined. Recently, however, the push towards greener cities has evolved into a more cohesive movement. Drawing from multidisciplinary case studies, Urban Natures examines the possibilities of an ethical lively multi-species city with the understanding that humanity’s relationship to nature is ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Food Resistance Movements

    Journeying Through Alternative Food Networks

    by Ferne Edwards ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book examines food resistance movements as a form of alternative food network, charting the author’s journey as a cultural anthropologist through three food resistance movements.In Australia, freegans’ consumption of ‘garbage’ in the food waste movement of the early 2000s reveals the extent of food going to waste from commercial sources while people go hungry. In contrast, Venezuela’s food ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Food, Senses and the City

    Edited by Ferne Edwards, Roos Gerritsen, Grit Wesser ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Food, Society and the Environment
    This work explores diverse cultural understandings of food practices in cities through the senses, drawing on case studies in the Americas, Asia, Australia, and Europe.The volume includes the senses within the popular field of urban food studies to explore new understandings of how people live in cities and how we can understand cities through food. It reveals how the senses can provide unique ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Food for Degrowth

    Perspectives and Practices

    Edited by Anitra Nelson, Ferne Edwards ...
    Series series Routledge Environmental Humanities
    This collection breaks new ground by investigating applications of degrowth in a range of geographic, practical and theoretical contexts along the food chain. Degrowth challenges growth and advocates for everyday practices that limit socio-metabolic energy and material flows within planetary constraints. As such, the editors intend to map possibilities for food for degrowth to become established ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

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    by David Bollier, Silke Helfrich ...
    We are poised between an old world that no longer works and a new one struggling to be born. Surrounded by centralized hierarchies on the one hand and predatory markets on the other, people around the world are searching for alternatives. The Wealth of the Commons explains how millions of commoners have organized to defend their forests and fisheries, reinvent local food systems, organize ... Read more

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  • Untamed Urbanisms

    Edited by Adriana Allen, Andrea Lampis, Mark Swilling ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Regional Economics, Science and Policy
    An electronic version of this book is available Open Access at www.tandfebooks.com. It has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 3.0 license.One of the major challenges of urban development has been reconciling the way cities develop with the mounting evidence of resource depletion and the negative environmental impacts of predominantly urban-based ... Read more

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  • Why Women Will Save the Planet

    by Bloomsbury Publishing ...
    Big cities don't have to mean a dystopian future. They can be turned around to be powerhouses of well-being and environmental sustainability – if we empower women.This book is a unique collaboration between C40 and Friends of the Earth showcasing pioneering city mayors, key voices in the environmental and feminist movements, and academics. The essays collectively demonstrate both the need for ... Read more

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  • Beyond Global Food Supply Chains

    Crisis, Disruption, Regeneration

    Edited by Victoria Stead, Melinda Hinkson ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This open access book takes the upheaval of the global COVID-19 pandemic as a springboard from which to interrogate a larger set of structural, environmental and political fault lines running through the global food system. In a context in which disruptions to the production, distribution, and consumption of food are figured as exceptions to the smooth, just-in-time efficiencies of global supply ... Read more

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  • Geographies of Food

    An Introduction

    by Moya Kneafsey, Damian Maye, Lewis Holloway, Professor Michael K. Goodman ...
    What is the future of food in light of growing threats from the climate emergency and natural resource depletion, as well as economic and social inequality? This textbook engages with this question, and considers the complex relationships between food, place, and space, providing students with an introduction to the contemporary and future geographies of food and the powerful role that food plays ... Read more

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  • Eco-Homes

    People, Place and Politics

    by Jenny Pickerill ...
    Series series Just Sustainabilities
    It is widely understood that good, affordable eco-housing needs to be at the heart of any attempt to mitigate or adapt to climate change. This is the first book to comprehensively explore eco-housing from a geographical, social and political perspective. It starts from the premise that we already know how to build good eco-houses and we already have the technology to retrofit existing housing. ... Read more

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  • The Ecosocial Transition of Societies

    The contribution of social work and social policy

    Edited by Aila-Leena Matthies, Kati Närhi ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Social Work
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  • The Routledge Companion to Alternative Organization

    Edited by Martin Parker, George Cheney, Valérie Fournier, Chris Land ...
    Series series Routledge Companions in Business, Management and Marketing
    Despite the Great Recession, slightly different forms of global capitalism are still portrayed as the only game in town by the vast majority of people in power in the world today. Unbridled growth, trade liberalisation, and competition are advocated as the only or best ways of organizing the contemporary world. Unemployment, yawning gaps between rich and poor, political disengagement, and ... Read more

    $73.99 USD