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This book examines the role of local food movements, enterprises and networks in the transformation of the currently unsustainable global food system. It explores a series of innovations designed to re-integrate sustainable modes of food production and encourage food sovereignty.

It provides detailed insights into a specialised network of social actors collaborating in novel ways and creating new economic arrangements across different geographical locales. In working to devise ‘local solutions to global problems’, the initiatives explored in the book represent a ‘second-generation’ food social movement which is less preoccupied with distinctive local qualities than with building socially just food systems aimed at delivering healthy nutrition worldwide. Drawing on fieldwork undertaken in sites across Europe, the USA and Brazil, the book provides a rich collection of case studies that offer a fresh perspective on the role of grassroots action in the transition to more sustainable food production systems.

Addressing a substantive gap in the literature that falls between global analyses of the contemporary food system and highly localised case studies, the book will appeal to those teaching food studies and those conducting research on civic food initiatives or on environmental social movements more generally.

Chapters 1, 3, 7, and 8 of this book are freely available as downloadable Open Access PDFs at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license. 

This book examines the role of local food movements, enterprises and networks in the transformation of the currently unsustainable global food system. It explores a series of innovations designed to re-integrate sustainable modes of food production and encourage food sovereignty.

It provides detailed insights into a specialised network of social actors collaborating in novel ways and creating new economic arrangements across different geographical locales. In working to devise ‘local solutions to global problems’, the initiatives explored in the book represent a ‘second-generation’ food social movement which is less preoccupied with distinctive local qualities than with building socially just food systems aimed at delivering healthy nutrition worldwide. Drawing on fieldwork undertaken in sites across Europe, the USA and Brazil, the book provides a rich collection of case studies that offer a fresh perspective on the role of grassroots action in the transition to more sustainable food production systems.

Addressing a substantive gap in the literature that falls between global analyses of the contemporary food system and highly localised case studies, the book will appeal to those teaching food studies and those conducting research on civic food initiatives or on environmental social movements more generally.

Chapters 1, 3, 7, and 8 of this book are freely available as downloadable Open Access PDFs at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license. 

Die Menschheit steht vor großen Herausforderungen, denn es bestehen berechtigte Sorgen, dass ihr Naturverhältnis nicht zukunftsfähig ist. Allerdings unterscheiden sich Gesellschaften, Milieus und Handlungsfelder in ihren Interaktionen mit der so genannten Umwelt erheblich. Was die ökologische Krise aus soziologischer Perspektive bedeutet und welche Rolle dabei auch Umwelteinstellungen, Konsummuster, Innovationen, Infrastrukturen oder Risiken spielen, wird in dieser Einführung in die Umweltsoziologie mit Bezug zu vielen Beispielen erläutert. Das Lehrbuch führt Studierende der Soziologie und Sozialwissenschaften in die zentralen Fragestellungen, Theorien und Gegenstände der Umweltsoziologie in 10 pointierten Kapiteln ein, die auch einzeln gelesen werden können.

Global risks, mobilities and interdependencies transnationalize local life and working worlds. These processes lead to an inner globalization of societies in which worldwide constellations of »reflexive« (Ulrich Beck), »multiple« (Shmuel N. Eisenstadt), »entangled« (Shalini Randeria) and »global« (Arjun Appadurai) modernities simultaneously and immediately clash in social action: a process of cosmopolitanization in which »the global« is localized and »the local« is globalized in radical new ways. In this book, an international selection of prominent critical thinkers address this premise and provide their interpretations of imminent challenges, concomitant social dynamics and political implications.With contributions by Arjun Appadurai, Zygmunt Bauman, Ulrich Beck, Elisabeth Beck-Gernsheim, Edgar Grande, Maarten Hajer, Ronald Hitzler, Wolf Lepenies, Anna Tsing, Angela McRobbie, Bruno Latour, Ted Nordhaus & Michael Shellenberger, Hans-Georg Soeffner, Natan Sznaider, Anja Weiß and Yunxiang Yan.

Welche Rolle spielen Denk- und Konsummuster, Innovationen und Infrastrukturen sowohl für die Entstehung von Umweltproblemen als auch für den gesellschaftlichen Umgang mit ihnen? Wie unterscheiden sich Umwelteinstellungen und Risikowahrnehmungen zwischen gesellschaftlichen Gruppen? Und wie hängt all das mit der Diagnose zusammen, dass das Naturverhältnis moderner Gesellschaften nicht zukunftsfähig ist? Ausgehend von diesen Fragen erläutert das Lehrbuch, was die ökologische Krise aus soziologischer Sicht bedeutet. Dabei wird in die zentralen Fragestellungen und Theorien der Umweltsoziologie eingeführt und diskutiert, welchen Beitrag die Disziplin zur Bewältigung der Herausforderungen des Anthropozän leisten kann.