Overview
- Discusses the challenges of food security in the 21st century
- Compares how climate smart different types of food are
- Challenges readers to think about their own food and how they get it
- This is an Open Access title
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About this book
This open access book asks just how climate-smart our food really is. It follows an average day's worth of food and drink to see where it comes from, how far it travels, and the carbon price we all pay for it. From our breakfast tea and toast, through breaktime chocolate bar, to take-away supper, Dave Reay explores the weather extremes the world’s farmers are already dealing with, and what new threats climate change will bring. Readers will encounter heat waves and hurricanes, wildfires and deadly toxins, as well as some truly climate-smart solutions. In every case there are responses that could cut emissions while boosting resilience and livelihoods. Ultimately we are all in this together, our decisions on what food we buy and how we consume it send life-changing ripples right through the global web that is our food supply.
As we face a future of 10 billion mouths to feed in a rapidly changing climate, it’s time to get to know our farmers and herders, our vintners and fisherfolk, a whole lot better.
As we face a future of 10 billion mouths to feed in a rapidly changing climate, it’s time to get to know our farmers and herders, our vintners and fisherfolk, a whole lot better.
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Table of contents (15 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Breakfast
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Front Matter
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Break Time
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Front Matter
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Lunch
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Front Matter
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Dinner
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Front Matter
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Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Dave Reay is Professor of Carbon Management at the University of Edinburgh, UK. He has studied climate change for over 20 years, from warming impacts in the Southern Ocean, through carbon fluxes in forests, to greenhouse gas emissions from wetlands and agriculture. In 2018 he received the Chancellor’s Award for Teaching for his work in climate change education. His latest project involves managing a large area of coastal land in Scotland to regrow native tree species and trap a lifetime’s carbon.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Climate-Smart Food
Authors: Dave Reay
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-18206-9
Publisher: Palgrave Pivot Cham
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-18205-2Published: 10 July 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-18206-9Published: 01 July 2019
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 201
Number of Illustrations: 16 illustrations in colour
Topics: Popular Science in Nature and Environment, Environment Studies, Environmental Geography, Climate Change/Climate Change Impacts, Climate Change Management and Policy, Agriculture
Keywords
- climate-smart food
- Food security
- climate change
- climate change impacts
- agriculture
- land use change
- Sustainability
- Paris Agreement
- carbon footprint
- Carbon dioxide fertilisation
- climate resilience
- greenhouse gas emissions
- Carbon Management
- carbon price
- climate-smart solutions
- food supply
- open access
- Environmental Geography
- Climate change management