Supersizing Urban America reveals how the US government has been, and remains, a major contributor to America s obesity epidemic. Government policies, targeted

In this second edition of The Sociology of Food and Agriculture, students are provided with a substantially revised and updated introductory text to this emerge

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An introduction to urban environmental issues around the globe.

For millennia, the city stood out against the landscape, walled and compact. This concept of the city was long accepted as adequate for characterizing the urban