Socio-Metabolic Perspectives on the Sustainability of Local Food Systems

Chapter 1 Introduction: Key Concepts, Debates and Approaches in Analysing the Sustainability of Agri-Food Systems

Chapter 2 Methodological Challenges and General Criteria for Assessing and Designing Local Sustainable Agri-Food Systems: A Socio-Ecological Approach at Landscape Level

Chapter 3 Biophysical Analysis of Agri-Food Systems: Scales, Energy Efficiency, Power and Metabolism of Society

Chapter 4 The Energy–Landscape Integrated Analysis (ELIA) of Agroecosystems

Chapter 5 Does Your Landscape Mirror What You Eat? A Long-Term Socio-metabolic Analysis of a Local Food System in Vallès County (Spain, 1860–1956–1999)

Chapter 6 Sustainability Challenges of Pre-industrial Local Food Systems—Insights from Long-Term Socio-Ecological Research in Austria

Chapter 7 Food, Feed, Fuel, Fibre and Finance: Looking for Sustainability Halfway Between Traditional Organic and Industrialised Agriculture in the Czech Republic

Chapter 8 Leapfrogging Agricultural Development: Cooperative Initiatives Among Cambodian Small Farmers to Handle Sustainability Constraints

Chapter 10 Local, Mixed and Global Organic Tomato Supply Chains: Some Lessons Learned from a Real-World Case Study

Chapter 11 Connecting Local Food and Organic Waste Management Systems: Closing Nutrient Loops in the City of Madrid

Chapter 12 Conclusions: Promises and Challenges for Sustainable Agri-Food Systems