Avoiding the local trap - Scale and food systems in planning research
Avoiding the local trap - Scale and food systems in planning research
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DOI：
10.1177/0739456x06291389
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发表时间：
2006-12-01
影响因子：
2.2
通讯作者：
Purcell, Mark
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作者：
Born, Branden;Purcell, Mark
g粮食系统研究现状一个强有力的观点认为，地方粮食系统比大规模粮食系统更可取。许多人认为，吃当地食物在生态上更可持续，在社会上更公正。我们称之为“地方陷阱”，并强烈反对这种说法。我们利用当前政治和经济地理学中的规模理论来论证，地方粮食系统并不比其他规模的系统更有可能是可持续的或公正的。该理论认为规模是社会产生的：规模（及其相互关系）不是具有内在品质的独立实体，而是具有特定议程的社会行动者所追求的策略。产生可持续性或公正等结果的是该议程的内容，而不是衡量标准本身。随着规划人员越来越多地转向粮食系统研究，我们认为避免当地陷阱至关重要。本文对规模的理论方法提供了一种方法。
g Current of food-systems research A strong holds that local food systems are preferable to systems at larger scales. Many assume that eating local food is more ecologically sustainable and socially just. We term this the local trap and argue strongly against it. We draw on current scale theory in political and economic geography to argue that local food systems are no more likely to be sustainable or just than systems at other scales. The theory argues that scale is socially produced: scales (and their interrelations) are not independent entities with inherent qualities but strategies pursued by social actors with a particular agenda. It is the content of that agenda, not the scales themselves, that produces outcomes such as sustainability or justice. As planners move increasingly into food-systems research, we argue it is critical to avoid the local trap. The article's theoretical approach to scale offers one way to do so.