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Intro; Foreword; Acknowledgements; Contents; About the Editors; Abbreviations; 1 Introduction: Key Concepts, Debates and Approaches in Analysing the Sustainability of Agri-Food Systems; Abstract; 1.1 The Sustainability of Agri-Food Systemsâ#x80;#x94;The Challenge; 1.2 Local Food Systems, Localisation and Food Sovereignty; 1.3 Social Metabolism and Political Ecology; 1.4 The Contributions in this Volume; 1.5 Final Remarks; References; Key Concepts and Approaches.
2 Methodological Challenges and General Criteria for Assessing and Designing Local Sustainable Agri-Food Systems: A Socio-Ecological Approach at Landscape LevelAbstract; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 Sustainability of What? Framing the Subject; 2.3 Why Making Agri-Food Systems Sustainable Requires Re-Localisation; 2.4 The Multi-scale Character of Food Chains, and the Issue of Trade; 2.5 Strengths and Weaknesses of Existing Tools in Analysing Agri-Food Systems; 2.6 Concluding Remarks: Searching for AgroEcological Sites Endowed with Rich Biocultural Heritage; References.
3 Biophysical Analysis of Agri-Food Systems: Scales, Energy Efficiency, Power and Metabolism of SocietyAbstract; 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 Local Versus Global Is a Fuzzy Distinction in Present-Day Farming: Implications for the Assessment of the Sustainability of Local, Short Food Supply Chains; 3.2.1 On the Difficulties of Distinguishing Local from Global; 3.2.2 Local Does not Automatically Mean More Sustainable; 3.3 The Multi-Scale Nature of Agri-Food Systems: Adopting a Multi-Criteria Approach to the Sustainability Assessment of Agri-Food Systems.
3.3.1 The Multi-Scale Nature of Agri-Food Systems3.3.2 The Multiple Identities of Agri-Food Systems; 3.4 The Biophysical Dimension of Sustainability; 3.4.1 Addressing Key Criteria; 3.4.2 The Fund/Flow Approach: The Importance of Addressing Funds in Sustainability Analyses; 3.5 Energy Efficiency and Power in the Assessment of Agri-Food System Performance: Interfacing Societyâ#x80;#x99;s Biophysical and Socio-Economic Dimensions; 3.5.1 Energy Efficiency and Productivity in Agriculture; 3.5.2 The Role of Fossil Fuels in Boosting the Power of Agri-Food Systems: The Effect on the Structure of Society.
3.6 The Usefulness of Concepts of Social and Societal Metabolism in the Sustainability Assessment of Agri-Food Systems3.6.1 Historical Overview; 3.6.2 Definitions and Schools of Thought; 3.6.3 The Fischer-Kowalski Approachâ#x80;#x94;â#x80;#x9C;Steady-State Social Metabolismâ#x80;#x9D;; 3.6.4 The Giampietro Approachâ#x80;#x94;â#x80;#x9C;Co-Evolutionary Societal-Ecological Metabolismâ#x80;#x9D;; 3.6.5 A Final Remark; 3.7 Conclusion; References; 4 The Energyâ#x80;#x93;Landscape Integrated Analysis (ELIA) of Agroecosystems; Abstract; 4.1 Sustainable Agroecosystems: The Global Food-Biodiversity Dilemma; 4.1.1 Introduction; 4.1.2 Objective.
4.2 Intermediate Disturbanceâ#x80;#x93;Complexity (IDC).
2 Methodological Challenges and General Criteria for Assessing and Designing Local Sustainable Agri-Food Systems: A Socio-Ecological Approach at Landscape LevelAbstract; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 Sustainability of What? Framing the Subject; 2.3 Why Making Agri-Food Systems Sustainable Requires Re-Localisation; 2.4 The Multi-scale Character of Food Chains, and the Issue of Trade; 2.5 Strengths and Weaknesses of Existing Tools in Analysing Agri-Food Systems; 2.6 Concluding Remarks: Searching for AgroEcological Sites Endowed with Rich Biocultural Heritage; References.
3 Biophysical Analysis of Agri-Food Systems: Scales, Energy Efficiency, Power and Metabolism of SocietyAbstract; 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 Local Versus Global Is a Fuzzy Distinction in Present-Day Farming: Implications for the Assessment of the Sustainability of Local, Short Food Supply Chains; 3.2.1 On the Difficulties of Distinguishing Local from Global; 3.2.2 Local Does not Automatically Mean More Sustainable; 3.3 The Multi-Scale Nature of Agri-Food Systems: Adopting a Multi-Criteria Approach to the Sustainability Assessment of Agri-Food Systems.
3.3.1 The Multi-Scale Nature of Agri-Food Systems3.3.2 The Multiple Identities of Agri-Food Systems; 3.4 The Biophysical Dimension of Sustainability; 3.4.1 Addressing Key Criteria; 3.4.2 The Fund/Flow Approach: The Importance of Addressing Funds in Sustainability Analyses; 3.5 Energy Efficiency and Power in the Assessment of Agri-Food System Performance: Interfacing Societyâ#x80;#x99;s Biophysical and Socio-Economic Dimensions; 3.5.1 Energy Efficiency and Productivity in Agriculture; 3.5.2 The Role of Fossil Fuels in Boosting the Power of Agri-Food Systems: The Effect on the Structure of Society.
3.6 The Usefulness of Concepts of Social and Societal Metabolism in the Sustainability Assessment of Agri-Food Systems3.6.1 Historical Overview; 3.6.2 Definitions and Schools of Thought; 3.6.3 The Fischer-Kowalski Approachâ#x80;#x94;â#x80;#x9C;Steady-State Social Metabolismâ#x80;#x9D;; 3.6.4 The Giampietro Approachâ#x80;#x94;â#x80;#x9C;Co-Evolutionary Societal-Ecological Metabolismâ#x80;#x9D;; 3.6.5 A Final Remark; 3.7 Conclusion; References; 4 The Energyâ#x80;#x93;Landscape Integrated Analysis (ELIA) of Agroecosystems; Abstract; 4.1 Sustainable Agroecosystems: The Global Food-Biodiversity Dilemma; 4.1.1 Introduction; 4.1.2 Objective.
4.2 Intermediate Disturbanceâ#x80;#x93;Complexity (IDC).