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Food, Society, and Environment: Second Edition

Food, Society, and Environment: Second Edition

Paperback

Health GeneralGeneral Sociology

Publisher Price: $32.00

ISBN10: 142514084X
ISBN13: 9781425140847
Publisher: Authorhouse
Published: Jun 25 2008
Pages: 268
Weight: 0.87
Height: 0.61 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Food, Society, and Environment is about food in the contexts of human social life, the biophysical environment, and ethical issues. As a book written for non-specialists, but in an informal style with a scholarly base, it explores several broadly important themes related to understanding food issues and problems today. They include (1) the importance of food in human health, and in shaping history and social change, (2) the industrialization and commodification of food that produces inequality and a global world food order, (3) the two current forms of malnutrition, conventional hunger from want, and the newer malnutrition from overeating, (4) the impact of modern agrifood systems and foodways on biophysical resources such as soil and water, and (5) some ethical issues that surround our attempts to deal with food problems, particularly those related to trade and aid.

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