Local Food and Community Development

ISBN-13: 9780415634144 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 104 str.

Gary Paul Green; Rhonda G. Phillips

Opis

This volume explores the relationships between food and community, and what various approaches imply for development through a selection of chapters illustrating a range of applications.

Spis treści

1. Introduction  Gary Paul Green and Rhonda G. Phillips  2. Localizing Linkages for Food and Tourism: Culinary Tourism as a Community Development Strategy  Gary Paul Green and Michael L. Dougherty  3. Everyday Meanings of "Local Food": Views from Home and Field  Marcia Ostrom  4. Rethinking local business clusters: the case of food clusters for promoting community development  Davis F. Taylor and Chad R. Miller  5. The influence of community capital toward a community's capacity to respond to food insecurity  Jessica Crowe and Justin Smith  6. Investing in the social fabric of rural and urban communities: a comparative study of two Alabama farmers' markets  Abel Duarte Alonso and Martin A. O'Neill  7. "Growing Wellness": The Possibility of Promoting Collective Wellness through Community Garden Education Programs  Michelle L. D'Abundo and Andrea M. Carden

O autorze

Gary Paul Green is a professor in the Department of Community & Environmental Sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a community development specialist at the University of Wisconsin-Extension. His teaching and research interests are primarily in the areas of community and economic development. Rhonda G. Phillips, Ph.D., AICP, CEcD is Associate Dean for Barrett, The Honors College and a professor at Arizona State University’s School of Community Resources & Development. Her research and service outreach includes assessing community well-being and quality-of-life outcomes. She teaches courses on local food systems and community development.