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IN THIS ISSUE: The Wellbeing of Its Children: The Ultimate Expression of a Nation’s Wealth
Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development, 2018 First paragraphs: It seems like just yesterday that I attended a very early farm-to-school workshop in the mid-ʼ90s at a national conference. I don’t remember the name of the conference or where it took place, but I vividly recall the animated ...
Duncan Hilchey
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In This Issue: Open Call Papers
Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development, 2020 First paragraph: Earlier this winter, the Alaska cod fishery—once considered robust and resilient—was closed for the entire 2020 season. It has been a blow to coastal communities’ economies and ways of life, and to the food supply chain North America ...
Duncan Hilchey
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Race, Food, and Borders: Situating Migrant Struggle in the Okanagan Valley, British Columbia [PDF]
, 2015 JAFSCD: Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development. Publication of the Thomas A.
Cohen, Amy +9 more
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The circular economy, dominated by capitalocentric, technocentric, and eco‐modernist discourses, risks perpetuating systemic injustice because of its limited consideration of the social and of what is possible. In this article, we examine how social justice can be embedded into circular business models (CBMs)—key drivers of the circular ...
Fernando C. Lit +3 more
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Transition of consumption models towards a circular economy is fundamental, particularly in the food packaging sector, which generates a high proportion of waste. In this context, consumers play a fundamental role, especially at the domestic level through separate waste collection, to limit the use of virgin materials and facilitate the reuse ...
Maria Vittoria Rizzo +3 more
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Policy's Role in Socioagricultural Transition: A Community Study in Tatamagouche, Nova Scotia
Journal of Rural and Community Development, 2012 In Atlantic Canada, as in rural areas around the world, many citizens are engaged in ways to adapt innovative local level solutions to the challenges posed by globalized industrial agriculture. To prevent the further unraveling of community fabric and to
Louise Hanavan, Greg Cameron
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In This Issue: Working on Wicked Problems in Food Systems
Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development, 2016 Full text of this issue's editorial: Quite by happenstance, the challenges, barriers, and limitations of local/regional food initiatives emerged as a thematic thread in this final issue of 2015.
Duncan Hilchey
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The life and work of Ernest Sydney Keeping
Canadian Journal of Statistics, EarlyView.Abstract This article reviews the life and contributions of Ernest S. Keeping (1895–1984), a British‐born physicist who became a mathematics professor at the University of Alberta in 1929. He played a pivotal role in shaping the university's Mathematics Department, serving as its head from 1954 to 1961, and continuing to teach until 1970, nine years ...
David R. Bellhouse, Christian Genest
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Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development, 2016 Full text of this issue's editorial: This open call issue of JAFSCD is slightly smaller than our usual 15 to 20 items. We've been busy working to transition our publishing platform to one hosted by Public Knowledge Project (PKP; http://pkp.sfu.ca), as ...
Duncan Hilchey
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Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and Corporate Sustainability (CS) are historically distinct constructs that have converged to the point of conceptual confusion. This paper operates within the CSR tradition, arguing that authentic CS is structurally impossible without the ethical foundation CSR provides.
Massimo Franchi
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