Emel / Neo Political Ecologies of Meat

Erscheinungsjahr 2015
ISBN: 978-1-317-81640-9
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 392 Seiten

Reihe: Routledge Studies in Political Ecology

Livestock production worldwide is increasing rapidly, in part due to economic growth and demand for meat in industrializing countries. Yet there are many concerns about the sustainability of increased meat production and consumption, from perspectives including human health, animal welfare, climate change and environmental pollution.

This book tackles the key issues of contemporary meat production and consumption through a lens of political ecology, which emphasizes the power relations producing particular social, economic and cultural interactions with non-human nature. Three main topics are addressed: the political ecology of global livestock production trends; changes in production systems around the world and their implications for environmental justice; and existing and emerging governance strategies for meat production and consumption systems and their implications.

Case studies of different systems at varying scales are included, drawn from Asia, Africa, the Americas and Europe. The book includes an editorial introduction to set the context and synthesize key messages for the reader.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Emel, Jody

Neo, Harvey

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftssektoren & Branchen Primärer Sektor Agrarökonomie, Ernährungswirtschaft

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword

Alice J. Hovorka

1. Introduction

Jody Emel and Harvey Neo

Part 1: The ‘Livestock Revolution’: Geographies and Implications

2. Evolution of a Revolution: Meat Consumption and Livestock Production in the Developing World

Ian MacLachlan

3. Cattle ranching development in the Brazilian Amazon: Looking at Long-term Trends to Explore the Transition towards Sustainable Beef Cattle Production

Pablo Pacheco and Rene Poccard-Chapuis

4. The Political Ecology of Factory Farming in East Africa

Elizabeth Waithanji

5. A Changing Environment for Livestock in South Africa

Emma R.M. Archer van Garderen, Charles L. Davis and Mark A. Tadross

Part 2: Environmental Justice and Meat Production/Consumption

6. Meat and Inequality: Environmental Health Consequences of Livestock Agribusiness

Ryan Gunderson

7. Can’t Go to the Fountain No More: Pigs, Nitrates and Spring Water Pollution in Catalonia

David Sauri and Hug March

8. Environmental Injustice in the Spatial Distribution of Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations: A Case Study from Ohio, USA

Julia Lenhardt and Yelena Ogneva-Himmelberger

9. Neoliberal Governance and Environmental Risk: ‘Normal Accidents’ in North Carolina’s Hog Industry

Elizabeth Stoddard

Part 3: Biopolitics, Knowledge, and the Materialism of Meat

10. Breed Contra Beef: the Making of the Piedmontese Cattle

Annalisa Colombino and Paolo Giaccaria

11. Biopower and an Ecology of Genes: Seeing Livestock as Meat via Genetics

Lewis Holloway

12. Cows, Climate and the Media

Keith Lee, Joshua P. Newell, Jennifer R. Wolch and Pascale Joassart Marcelli

13. The Political Science of Farm Animal Welfare in the US and EU

Connie Johnston

14. Battling the Head and the Heart: Constructing Knowledgeable Narratives of Vegetarianism in Anti-meat Advocacy

Harvey Neo

Part 4: The Governance of Meat Production Systems

15. Producing Halal Meat: the Case of Halal Slaughter Practices in Wales, UK

Mara Miele and Karolina Rucinska

16. Roundtabling and the Greening of the Global Beef Industry: Lessons from the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO)

Adrienne Johnson

17. Contesting Urban Agriculture: the Politics of Meat Production in the License-Buy-Back Scheme (2006-2007) in Hong Kong

Kin Wing Chan

18. Complications and Implications of Mitigating Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Livestock

Chris Rosin and Mark H. Cooper

19. Domestic Farmed Fish Production: An Overview of Governance and Oversight in the US Aquaculture Industry

Paula Daniels and Colleen McKinney

20. Conclusion

Jody Emel and Harvey Neo

Über Autor(innen)

Jody Emel is Professor of Geography at Clark University, USA.

Harvey Neo is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography at the National University of Singapore.