Conceptualizing and creating sustainable food systems: How interdisciplinarity can help

Imagining Sustainable Food Systems: Theory and Practice

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 17-35

  Hinrichs, Clare ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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