Food consumption in the city : practices and patterns in urban Asia and the Pacific / edited by Marlyne Sahakian, Czarina Saloma and Suren Erkman.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Sahakian, Marlyne, editor.

Saloma, Czarina A., editor.

Erkman, Suren, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Food consumption--Asia.

Food consumption.

Food consumption--Pacific Area.

Food habits--Asia.

Food habits.

Food habits--Pacific Area.

Food waste--Asia.

Food waste.

Food waste--Pacific Area.

Cities and towns--Social aspects--Asia.

Cities and towns.

Cities and towns--Social aspects--Pacific Area.

Cities and towns--Social aspects.

Asia.

Pacific Area.

Physical Description:

xii, 258 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, 2016.

Summary:

Food consumption patterns and practices are rapidly changing in Asia and the Pacific, and nowhere are these changes more striking than in urban areas. This book brings together researchers from environmental studies, anthropology, sociology, tourism, architecture and development studies to provide a comprehensive examination of food consumption trends in the cities of Asia and the Pacific, including household food consumption, eating out and food waste. The chapters cover different scales of analysis, from household research to national data, and combine different methodologies and approaches, from quantifiable data that show how much people consume to qualitative findings that reveal how and why consumption takes place in urban settings. Detailed case studies are included from China, India, Japan, Malaysia, Philippines, South Korea and Vietnam, as well as Hawai'i and Australia. The book makes a timely contribution to current debates on the challenges and opportunities for socially just and environmentally sound food consumption in urbanizing Asia and the Pacific. Book jacket.

Contents:

Part I Trends across the region 21

1 Same, same - but different: on increasing meat consumption in the Global South / Hellmuth Lange Lange, Hellmuth 23

2 Grappling with impacts: environmental considerations around agriculture and food waste treatment in Asian cities / Megha Shenoy Shenoy, Megha 46

Part II Food practices and cultures 69

3 Emerging consumerism and eating out in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam: the social embeddedness of food sharing / Judith Ehlert Ehlert, Judith 71

4 Eating in vertical neighborhoods: food consumption practices in Metro Manila condominiums / Czarina Saloma Saloma, Czarina, Erik Akpedonu Akpedonu, Erik 90

5 From beet to bananas: consumer preferences and local food flows in Honolulu, Hawai'i / Elizabeth Louis Louis, Elizabeth, Kyle Datta Datta, Kyle 107

6 The food revolution in Melbourne, 1980-2015 / Warwick Frost Frost, Warwick, Jennifer Laing Laing, Jennifer 124

7 The practices of Indian vegetarianism in a world of limited resources: the case of Bengaluru / Rune-Christoffer Dragsdahl Dragsdahl, Rune-Christoffer 141

Part III Food waste dynamics 159

8 Uneaten food: emerging social practices around food waste in Greater Tokyo / Atsushi Watabe Watabe, Atsushi, Chen Liu Liu, Chen, Magnus Bengtsson Bengtsson, Magnus 161

9 From thrift to sustainability: the changing table manners of Shanghai's food leftovers / Punfu Zhang Zhang, Punfu 180

10 Food waste in the food service sector: a case study from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia / Effie Papargyropoulou Papargyropoulou, Effie 199

11 Convenient food, inconvenient waste: systems of provision meet social practices in Seoul / Keith Lee Lee, Keith 216

12 Towards sustainable consumption of rice in a private school in Metro Manila / Abigail Marie T. Favis Favis, Abigail Marie T., Rafael Deo F. Estanislao Estanislao, Rafael Deo F. 238.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781138120617

1138120618

OCLC:

948176070

Publisher Number:

40026578669