Overview

The Routledge Handbook of Urban Food Governance is the first collection to reflect on and compile the currently dispersed histories, concepts and practices involved in the increasingly popular field of urban food governance. Unpacking the power of urban food governance and its capacity to affect lives through the transformation of cities and the global food system, the Handbook is structured into five parts. The first part focuses on histories of urban food governance to trace the historical roots of current dynamics and provide an impetus for the critical lens on urban food governance threaded through the Handbook. The second part presents a broad overview of the different frames, theories and concepts that have informed urban food governance scholarship. Drawing on the previous parts, part three engages with the practice of urban food governance by analysing plans, policies and programmes implemented in different contexts. Part four presents current knowledge on how urban food governance involves different agencies that operate across scales and sectors. The final part asks key figures in this field what the future holds for urban food governance in the midst of pressing societal and environmental challenges. Containing chapters written by emerging and established scholars, as well as practitioners, the Handbook provides a state of the art, global and diverse examination of the role of cities in delivering sustainable and secure food outcomes, as well as providing refreshed theoretical and practical tools to understand and transform urban food governance to enact more sustainable and just futures. The Routledge Handbook of Urban Food Governance will be essential reading for students, scholars, practitioners and policymakers interested in food governance, urban studies, sustainable food and agriculture, and sustainable living more broadly.

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Cities are emerging powerhouses of food systems transformation. The Handbook of Urban Food Governance takes readers on a journey through a plethora of examples, providing a diversity of ideas of how to govern cities for better food systems. Recommended for anyone looking for a sense of hope and possibility. Professor Corinna Hawkes, Director Centre for Food Policy, City University of London Anyone interested in urban development and food systems transformation, will treasure this book which is a unique resource for understanding the crucial issue of urban food governance and get inspired from various practices and innovative and inclusive forms of collaborative food governance. Cecilia Marocchino, Urban Food Agenda Coordinator, FAO, Rome. The Handbook of Urban Food Governance provides readers with frameworks and examples of how cities around the globe are redefining food governance. Those interested in more equitable sub-national food policy - such as urban planners - will find the book especially useful in guiding professional practice. Samina Raja, Professor, Urban and Regional Planning and Director, Food Systems Planning and Healthy Communities Lab

Author Information

Ana Moragues-Faus is a Senior Research Fellow in the School of Economics and Business at the University of Barcelona. Jill K. Clark is Associate Professor in the John Glenn College of Public Affairs at Ohio State University. Jane Battersby is a Senior Lecturer in Environmental and Geographical Science at the University of Cape Town. Anna Davies is Professor of Geography, Environment and Society at Trinity College Dublin.

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