Socio-Metabolic Perspectives on the Sustainability of Local Food Systems / Human-Environment Interactions Bd.7 (PDF)
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More and more people with gradually meat heavier diets will demand growth in food production, whilst our increasingly industrialized and globalized agri-food system has already caused serious sustainability problems in the past. This calls for a change in the way we produce, distribute and consume food. A re-emerging debate on food security and food sovereignty seems to support this quest. But what are the promising alternatives to mainstream developments?
Such a discussion regarding sustainability of local food systems requires a sound systemic understanding and thus invites a socio-metabolic reading of local cases by analyzing the nexus between material and energy flows as well as land and time use. This approach is needed to complement the so far mostly qualitatively-based local food studies. Applying socio-metabolic approaches to local food systems fosters a better understanding of promises and pitfalls for sustainable pathways in the future.
Willi Haas is senior researcher and lecturer at the Institute of Social Ecology in Vienna, an institute of the Faculty of Interdisciplinary Studies at the Alpen Adria University. In the 90s, he became fascinated by social ecology, the study of society-nature relations across time and space. He is interested in the past transition from agrarian to industrial societies and the insights that can be drawn from these far-reaching changes for the next transition to a post- fossil society. In his view the question of how to overcome the system inertia and the unsustainable reproduction dynamics of the present fossil fuelled societies is crucial for fostering a sustainable future. He was chair of Greenpeace CEE for 9 years. Professionally, he was a public official at the Ministry of Social Affairs, director of the Institute of Applied Ecology (Vienna), acting director of the Environmental Monitoring Group (Cape Town) and researcher at the International Institute of Applied System Analysis (IIASA, based in Austria). At the Institute of Social Ecology he has headed numerous scientific projects and is the coordinator of the institute's team of thematic research coordinators.
Simron Jit Singh is Associate Professor and Associate Dean
- 2018, 1st ed. 2017, 364 Seiten, Englisch
- Herausgegeben: Eva Franková, Willi Haas, Simron J. Singh
- Verlag: Springer-Verlag GmbH
- ISBN-10: 3319692364
- ISBN-13: 9783319692364
- Erscheinungsdatum: 09.01.2018
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