Food policy : integrating health, environment and society / Tim Lang, David Barling, Martin Caraher.

  • Lang, Tim.
Date:
2009
  • Books

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Description

Food policy has long been viewed as an essential part of the public health agenda, but this book identifies the importance of environmental damage and social inequalities to these issues. The authors offer a review of current and past food policy, proposing the need for a new ecological public health approach to food policy.

Publication/Creation

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2009 [2012]

Physical description

xiv, 313 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Contents

Introduction and themes -- Defining food policy -- Public policy and governance -- Nutrition -- The supply chain -- The environment and ecosystems -- Behaviour and culture -- Inequality, poverty and social justice -- On what terms ecological public health?

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Where to find it

  • LocationStatus
    Medical Collection
    QU145.72 2009L27f
    Open shelves

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ISBN

  • 9780198567882
  • 019856788X