Constructing sustainability through reconnection: The case of 'alternative' food networks

Sustainable Rural Systems: Sustainable Agriculture and Rural Communities

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 67-81

  Cox, Rosie ^a   Kneafsey, Moya ^b   Venn, Laura ^c   Holloway, Lewis ^d   Dowler, Elizabeth ^e   Tuomainen, Helena ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b Faculty of Engineering and Computing   (United Kingdom)

^c West Midlands Regional Observatory   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HULL   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

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