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Roni Neff - Introduction to the US Food System: Public Health, Environment, and Equity - 9781118063385 - V9781118063385
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Introduction to the US Food System: Public Health, Environment, and Equity

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Description for Introduction to the US Food System: Public Health, Environment, and Equity Paperback. A public health approach to the US food system Introduction to the US Food System: Public Health, Environment, and Equity is a comprehensive and engaging textbook that offers students an overview of today's US food system, with particular focus on the food system's interrelationships with public health, the environment, equity, and society. Editor(s): Neff, Roni. Num Pages: 576 pages, black & white illustrations, colour tables, figures. BIC Classification: 1KBB; KNAC; MBN; RNFF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 280 x 216 x 31. Weight in Grams: 1332.
A public health approach to the US food system

Introduction to the US Food System: Public Health, Environment, and Equity is a comprehensive and engaging textbook that offers students an overview of today's US food system, with particular focus on the food system's interrelationships with public health, the environment, equity, and society. Using a classroom-friendly approach, the text covers the core content of the food system and provides evidence-based perspectives reflecting the tremendous breadth of issues and ideas important to understanding today's US food system. The book is rich with illustrative examples, case studies, activities, and discussion questions.

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Issues covered in Introduction to the US Food System include food insecurity, social justice, community and worker health concerns, food marketing, nutrition, resource depletion, and ecological degradation.

  • Presents concepts on the foundations of the US food system, crop production, food system economics, processing and packaging, consumption and overconsumption, and the environmental impacts of food
  • Examines the political factors that influence food and how it is produced
  • Ideal for students and professionals in many fields, including public health, nutritional science, nursing, medicine, environment, policy, business, and social science, among others

Introduction to the US Food System presents a broad view of today's US food system in all its complexity and provides opportunities for students to examine the food system's stickiest problems and think critically about solutions.

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
John Wiley & Sons Inc United States
Number of pages
576
Condition
New
Number of Pages
576
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9781118063385
SKU
V9781118063385
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-1

About Roni Neff
RONI NEFF, PHD, EDITOR, is an assistant professor in the Department of Environmental Health Sciences at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and directs the Food System Sustainability Program at the Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future (CLF). She has worked in a wide variety of food system and public health research, policy, and practice roles throughout ... Read more

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