Overview
- Makes a substantive contribution to global scholarship on urban food systems and the urban UN SDG 11
- Includes both case studies and thematic discussion
- Case studies come from cities in the Global North and South which have often been neglected in the wider literature about urban food issues
- Contains detailed policy suggestions
Part of the book series: International Political Economy Series (IPES)
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Table of contents (17 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Emergent UA Themes and Concepts from North and South
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Opportunities for Top-Down/Bottom-Up Collaboration? Case Studies from the Global North
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The South Takes the Lead: Case Studies from BRICS, Asia and Africa
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Keywords
- Political Science
- Urban Agriculture
- Global Financial Crisis
- Social Ecology
- Urban Development
- Urban Food Democracy
- Human Health and Wellbeing
- Social Justice
- Urban Biodiversity
- Human Nutrition
- Alternative Food Networks
- Local Action Groups
- Common Agricultural Policy
- Climate Change
- Community Action
- Smart Technologies
- Food Security
- Town Planning
- Community Gardens
- Income Inequality
- urban politics
About this book
“Grounded in the urban politics of the 21st Century world-wide, this thoughtful volume hooks urban food – and especially its production – to social justice in a realistic and manageable way.”
—Diana Lee-Smith, Mazingira Institute, Kenya
“An excellent international overview of urban food democracy and governance, with impressive geographical reach.”
—Andre Viljoen, University of Brighton, UK
This edited collection explores urban food democracy as part of a broader policy-based approach to sustainable urban development. Conceptually, governance and social justice provide the analytical framework for a varied array of contributions which critically address issues including urban agriculture, smart cities, human health and wellbeing and urban biodiversity. Some chapters take the form of thematic, issue-based discussions, where others are constituted by empirical case studies. Contributing authors include both academic experts and practitioners who hail from a wide range of disciplines, professions and nations. All offer original research and robust consideration of urban food democracy in cities from across the Global North and South. Taken as a whole, this book makes a significant contribution to understanding the potential enabling role of good urban governance in developing formal urban food policy that is economically and socially responsive and in tune with forms of community-driven adaptation of space for the local production, distribution and consumption of nutritious food.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Alec Thornton is Senior Lecturer in Geography and Academic Co-Lead for Africa at the Institute for Global Development, University of New South Wales, Australia. He is Senior Research Associate at the School of Humanities and at the School of Tourism and Hospitality, University of Johannesburg, South Africa.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Urban Food Democracy and Governance in North and South
Authors: Alec Thornton
Series Title: International Political Economy Series
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-17187-2
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-17186-5Published: 09 December 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-17189-6Published: 05 December 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-17187-2Published: 28 November 2019
Series ISSN: 2662-2483
Series E-ISSN: 2662-2491
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXXVIII, 320
Number of Illustrations: 6 b/w illustrations, 5 illustrations in colour
Topics: International Political Economy, Urban Politics, Public Policy, Democracy, Regionalism