Food Security in Australia : Challenges and Prospects for the Future /

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor Corporativo: SpringerLink (Online service)
Otros Autores: Farmar-Bowers, Quentin. (Editor ), Higgins, Vaughan. (Editor ), Millar, Joanne. (Editor )
Formato: eBook
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: New York, NY : Springer US : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
Edición:1st ed. 2013.
Materias:
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. Introduction: The Food Security Problem in Australia
  • Part I. Food Equity and Access
  • 2. Food Security in Australia – The Logistics of Vulnerability
  • 3. Ethics of Food Security
  • 4. Interdisciplinary Conversations on Complexities of Food/In Security
  • 5. Institutional Capacity of Local Government to Embed Food Security into Policy
  • 6. The Question of a Reasonable Price for Food: Policy Alternatives to Control Food Price Inflation in Developed Economies.- 7. Selecting Interventions for Food Security in Remote Indigenous Communities.- 8. Hungry for Change: The Sydney Food Fairness Alliance
  • 9. Community Supported Agriculture and Agri-Food Networks: Growing Food, Community and Sustainability?.- 10. The Emergency Relief Sector in Victoria, Australia
  • Chapter 11. Case Studies on Food Equity and Access
  • Part II. Food Production, Policy and Trade
  • 12. The Impacts of Climate Change on Australia’s Food Production and Exports
  • 13. Increasing Food Production Sustainably in a Changing Climate – Understanding the Pressures and Potential
  • 14. Enhancing Food Security in Australia by Supporting Transformative Change
  • 15. Framing the Research Needs for Food Security in Australia
  • 16. Water Sovereignty and Food Security
  • 17. Food Security and Soil Health
  • 18. Australian Food Security Dilemmas – Comparing Nutritious Production Scenarios and their Environmental, Resource and Economic Tensions
  • 19. ‘Sustainable Standards?’ How Organic Standards in the EU and Australia Affect Local and Global Agri-Food Production and Value Chains
  • 20. How do you Eat the Elephant in the Room? Agri-Food Sustainability and King Island
  • 21. A New Harvest of the Suburbs
  • 22.  Farming in Rural Amenity Landscapes – Maintaining Food Productivity in a Changing Environment
  • 23. Food Security in a Two Speed Economy: Horticultural Production in Western Australia
  • 24. Case Studies on Food Production, Policy, and Trade
  • Part III. Land Use and Planning
  • 25. Is Food a Missing Ingredient in Australia’s Metropolitan Planning Strategies?
  • 26. Help or Hindrance? The Relationship between Land Use Planning and Urban Agriculture on the Gold Coast
  • 27. Farming the City Fringe: Dilemmas for Peri-Urban Planning
  • 28. By Accident or Design? Peri-Urban Planning and the Protection of Productive Land on the Urban Fringe
  • 29. Development, Dilution and Functional Change in the Peri-Urban Landscape: What does it Really Mean for Agriculture?
  • 30. Final Word: Australia’s Food Security Challenges.