Food and Sustainability: Transdisciplinary Approaches between Past, Present, and Future

Editore: FedOA - Federico II University Press

Series: Miscellaneous

Pages: 270

Language: Italian

Abstract: This book aims to investigate the relationship between food production, consumption, and environmental sustainability, across a wide range of disciplinary approaches, themes, temporal and spatial contexts, both locally and globally. The contributions gathered here, in fact, range from issues concerning food technologies and food preservation, to the economic aspects of the relationship between food production and sustainability (touching on topics such as intensive farming, social farming, multifunctional agriculture, and small farms) and, at the other end of the supply chain, consumer behavior when faced with the problem of food sustainability; from the legal issues posed by food safety to the ethical issues related to intensive farming, meat consumption, and the prospects offered by cultured meat; from the relationship between excessive food consumption and war in ancient thought to the relationship between food transformation, sustainability, and the female condition, up to the reflection on the theme of food consumption and sustainability recurring in Italian culture between the 19th and 20th centuries and in contemporary art.