Since the turn of the millennium, there has been a burgeoning interest in, and literature of, both landscape studies and food studies. Landscape describes places as relationships and processes. Landscapes create people’s identities and guide their actions and their preferences, while at the same time are shaped by the actions and forces of people. Food, as currency, medium, and sustenance, is a fundamental part of those landscape relationships. This volume brings together over fifty contributors from around the world in forty profoundly interdisciplinary chapters. Chapter authors represent an astonishing range of disciplines, from agronomy, anthropology, archaeology, conservation, countryside management, cultural studies, ecology, ethics, geography, heritage studies, landscape architecture, landscape management and planning, literature, urban design and architecture. Both food studies and landscape studies defy comprehension from the perspective of a single discipline, and thus such a range is both necessary and enriching. The Routledge Handbook of Landscape and Food is intended as a first port of call for scholars and researchers seeking to undertake new work at the many intersections of landscape and food. Each chapter provides an authoritative overview, a broad range of pertinent readings and references, and seeks to identify areas where new research is needed—though these may also be identified in the many fertile areas in which subjects and chapters overlap within the book.

Table of Contents:
Introduction Tim Waterman and Joshua Zeunert Part 1 From hunting and gathering to agriculture 1 Transformation of the landscape: the relationships between food and land use in prehistoric British and European societies Saruhan Mosler and Peter Hobson 2 The shaping of food landscapes from the Neolithic to Industrial period: changing agro-ecosystems between three agrarian revolutions Gunilla A. Olsson 3 Aboriginal Culture and Food-Landscape Relationships in Australia: Indigenous Knowledge for Country and Landscape David S. Jones and Philip A. Clarke 4 Archaeology, history, and urban food security: integrating cross-cultural and long-term perspectives Christian Isendahl and Stephan Barthel 5 Foraging Jeremy Strong 6 Venison from the Bavarian forests: linking hunters, forest diversity and consumers through regional marketing Gerd Lupp, Simon Tangerding and Valerie Kantelberg 7 Sustaining Russian Old Believers: landscapes of fish and onions in Estonia Helen Sooväli-Sepping, Anu Printsmann and Hannes Palang 8 Food production and the village under state socialism: the Balkan case Mirjana Lozanovska and Alexandra Florea Part 2 Agricultures 9 Shifts in agricultural praxis: farm modernisation and global integration Anders Wästfelt 10 Alternative agriculture: innovations for growing and cultivating diverse ways of knowing Jonathan Code 11 Seascapes: food from the marine landscape Maggie Roe 12 Dimensions of urban agriculture Joshua Zeunert 13 Mediterranean urban agriculture Tal Alon Mozes and Efrat Eizenberg 14 Peri-urban food production as means towards urban food security and increased urban resilience Gunilla Almered Olsson 15 Peri-urban agriculture in Australia: pressure on the urban fringe Rachel Carey and Sarah James Part 3 Ecology, Resources, Sustainability and Climate Change 16 Challenges in agricultural sustainability and resilience: towards regenerative practice Joshua Zeunert 17 Conservation and ecology Gary Austin 18 Food systems and climate change: impact and adaptation in cropping and livestock Afshin Ghahramani and Saman Seneweera 19 Investing in water management in rural and urban landscapes to achieve and sustain global food security Munir A. Hanjra, Dennis Wichelns and Pay Drechsel Part 4 Developing Worlds 20 Food security, landscape, urban change, and poverty in the developing world Suzanne Speak 21 Connecting landscapes and food in Africa: case studies from Ethiopia and Uganda Max Kelly and Ruth Jackson 22 Urban Agriculture in Bogotá´s informal settlements: open space transformation towards productive urban landscapes Jaime Hernandez-Garcia and Sandra Caquimbo-Salazar 23 Rural-urban food and nutrient dynamics and nutrient recovery from waste in developing countries Munir A. Hanjra, Mary Lydecker, Pay Drechsel and Johannes Paul Part 5 Intellectual, Political and Economic Realms 24 Ethics of agricultural landscapes and food production Isis Brook 25 The new food insecurity Damian Maye 26 Food-sensitive urban planning: Australian perspectives David S. Jones and Beau B. Beza 27 Food, landscape, and urban design Susan Parham and Jacques Abelman Part 6 Social Practices and Meanings 28 Eating the commons landscape: sacrificial food for thought concerning the meaning of landscape Kenneth R. Olwig 29 From the agora to the modern marketplace: food markets as landscapes of business and pleasure Susan Parham 30 Allotments and community gardens: history, culture, and landscape in Britain, North America, and Australia Claire Nettle and David Crouch 31 Food sovereignty Max Kelly 32 Landscape and the politics of food justice Megan Blake 33 Grassroots activism, agroecology, and the food and farming movement: ten years in Bristol’s food story Angela E. Raffle and Joy Carey Part 7 Food Cultures and Foodways 34 Taste, foodways, and everyday life Tim Waterman 35 Food and landscape tourism Jo Russell-Clarke 36 Terroir: a socially constructed subterranean landscape gone global Zachary Nowak 37 Using the senses to write food culture and landscape Nina Mukerjee Furstenau 38 Queer space and productive landscapes Andrea Bosio 39 The cultural and spiritual aspects of growing edible plants: testing for meaningfulness in Leeds, UK Ann Light and Christina Welch 40 Utopia landscape food utopia Jody Beck