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Between the Local and the Global: Confronting Complexity in the Contemporary Agri-Food Sector
Terry Marsden (Ed.)
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Description for Between the Local and the Global: Confronting Complexity in the Contemporary Agri-Food Sector
Hardback. Presents a range of critical perspectives on the contemporary agri-food sector. This book tells how geography matters in agri-food and plays a diverse range of roles in shaping production-consumption relations. It shows the importance of various areas and their associated institutions to the development of the international food system. Editor(s): Marsden, Terry; Murdoch, Jonathan. Series: Research in Rural Sociology & Development. Num Pages: 376 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JH; KNAC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 22. Weight in Grams: 703.
The volume presents a range of critical perspectives on the contemporary agri-food sector. The starting point is the recognition that geography matters in agri-food more than ever, and it plays a diverse range of roles in shaping production-consumption relations. With hindsight, it may be argued that the extensive rural sociological literature on the globalisation of food over the past twenty years has tended to over-emphasise the degree to which food products and processes have indeed been industrialised and standardised. But if diversity and variety have become increasingly significant in distinguishing food commodities, spaces of production, and the practices of consumption, ... Read more
The volume presents a range of critical perspectives on the contemporary agri-food sector. The starting point is the recognition that geography matters in agri-food more than ever, and it plays a diverse range of roles in shaping production-consumption relations. With hindsight, it may be argued that the extensive rural sociological literature on the globalisation of food over the past twenty years has tended to over-emphasise the degree to which food products and processes have indeed been industrialised and standardised. But if diversity and variety have become increasingly significant in distinguishing food commodities, spaces of production, and the practices of consumption, ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Emerald Publishing Limited
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Series
Research in Rural Sociology & Development
Condition
New
Weight
718g
Number of Pages
376
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780762313174
SKU
V9780762313174
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Ref
99-1
About Terry Marsden (Ed.)
Professor Terry Marsden is currently Head of the School of City and Regional Planning at Cardiff University, the largest school of planning within the UK (and a 5-star ranked department in the last RAE exercise). He is also a Professor of Environmental Policy and Planning, Director of the Environmental Planning Unit in the school and Co-Director of the Economic ... Read more
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