Bigger, But Better? An examination of food system scale and its connection to long term sustainability

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Bigger, But Better? An examination of food system scale and its connection to long term sustainability

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Bigger, But Better? An examination of food system scale and its connection to long term sustainability

Haley Paul

2008

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https://hdl.handle.net/2376/1434

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food system scale

Undergraduate research

Small-scale food production

Sustainability

This paper applies scale theory to the realm of United States agriculture, asking, how is the sustainability of United States' society affected by the scalar level at which its dominant food system operates?

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Title: Bigger, But Better? An examination of food system scale and its connection to long term sustainability
Creators: Haley Paul (Author)
Contributors: John H Bodley (Supervisor) - Washington State University, Anthropology, Department of
Academic Unit: Undergraduate Student Research Excellence Award
Grant note: Washington State University Libraries
Identifiers: 99900502773401842
Copyright: openAccess ; http://purl.org/eprint/accessRights/OpenAccess
Language: English
Resource Type: Essay