Food security, local production and sustainability
Pat Inman, supported by Peter Welsh and others, will focus more specifically on Food security, local production and sustainability. This is something that commands geopolitical strategic concern in terms of the ownership, exploitation and degradation of natural resources.
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There are also ethical as well as serious knowledge concerns to do with the break-up of traditional communities, economies and life-styles, and the perhaps permanent loss of practical grounded wisdom that even now may depend on memory and ‘indigenous folk ways’ rather than written manuals and courses. Will the new interest in food miles, organic non-chemicalised food and health, and the economics of factory vs small mixed-production farms be channelled into the kind of localism that permeates much of the work of PASCAL and, we may predict, dialogue through OTB?
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University engagement for sustainable regions: Developing a grounded economy by Pat Inman on Feb 11 2015 |
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Reference: A new imperative: regions and higher education in difficult times by Mike Osborne on Feb 11 2015 |
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Local-global, private-public – pragmatic reconciliations or unholy alliances? by Chris Duke on Jun 06 2015 |
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