Foreword; Pascal Kosuth Preface; Kevin Morgan Introduction; Damien Conaré Chapter 1 Urbanization Issues Affecting Food System Sustainability; Nicolas Bricas Box 1.1 Urban Metabolism and Territorial Ecology; Sabine Barles, Gilles Billen Box 1.2 Who Generates Urban Conurbation Food Supply Flows? Jean-Louis Routhier Chapter 2 History of Urban Food Policy in Europe, From the Ancient City to the Industrial City; Benoit Daviron, Coline Perrin, Christophe-Toussaint Soulard Box 2.1 Famine, markets and public policy in European cities from the end of the Middle Ages; François Menant Box 2.2 Development of analytical laboratories in France; Benoit Daviron Chapter 3 Cities’ Strategies for Sustainable Food and the Levers They Mobilize; Jess Halliday Box 3.1 Strategic Urban Governance Capacity Concept and Urban Food Policy Implementation Factors; Wendy Mendes Chapter 4 Theoretical Approaches for Effective Sustainable Urban Food Policymaking; Caroline Brand, Julie Debru Contributions from: Vanessa Armendáriz, Stefano Armenia, Alberto Stanislao Atzori, Nevin Cohen and Paul James Chapter 5 Reconciling Sustainability Issues and Urban Policy Levers; Nicolas Bricas, Christophe-Toussaint Soulard, Clément Arnal Chapter 6 Putting Food on the Regional Policy Agenda in Montpellier, France; Laura Michel, Christophe-Toussaint Soulard Box 6.1 Metropolitan Montpellier’s Agroecology and Food Policy Chapter 7 Conclusion; Nicolas Bricas
This Open Access book is for scientists and experts who work on urban food policies. It provides a conceptual framework for understanding the urban food system sustainability and how it can be tackled by local governments. Written by a collective of researchers, this book describes the existing conceptual frameworks for an analysis of urban food policies, at the crossroads of the concepts of food system and sustainable city. It provides a basis for identifying research questions related to urban local government initiatives in the North and South. It is the result of work carried out within Agropolis International within the framework of the Sustainable Urban Food Systems program and an action research carried out in support of Montpellier Méditerranée Métropole for the construction of its agroecological and food policy.