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"This book examines the implications of the net zero transition for food and farming in the UK and how these can be managed to avoid catastrophic climate change in the crucial decades ahead. For the UK to meet its international obligations for reducing greenhouse gas emissions, nothing short of a revolution is required in our use of land, our farming practices and our diet. Taking a historical approach, the book examines the evolution of agriculture and the food system in the UK over the last century and discusses the implications of tackling climate change for food, farming and land use, setting the UK situation in an international context. The chapters analyse the key challenges for this transition, including dietary change and food waste, afforestation and energy crops, and low emission farming practices. This historical perspective helps develop an understanding of how our food system, farming and land use has evolved to be the way that it is, and draws lessons for how the agri-food system could evolve further to support the transition to net zero and avoid catastrophic climate change. Written in a clear and accessible style, this book will be of essential reading to students and scholars of food, agriculture and the environment, as well as policymakers and professionals involved climate change policy and the agriculture and food industry"--

Machine generated contents note: PART I: THE ECONOMY IN TRANSITION -- 2 Situating the North East in the European Space Economy -- David Charles and Paul Benneworth -- 3 Defence Closure and Job Loss: The Case of Swan Hunter -- on Tyneside -- John Tomaney, Andy Pike and James Cornford -- 4 Working in the Business Family: Micro-business -- Livelihoods in the North East and the South East of -- England -- Susan Baines and Jane Wheelock -- PART II: POLITICS AND CULTURE IN TRANSITION -- 5 Region-Building in the North East: Regional Identity and -- Regionalist Politics -- Chris Lanigan -- 6 Pride and Prejudice: Two Cultures and the North East's -- Transition -- Peter Fowler, Mike Robinson and Priscilla Boniface -- 7 The Restructuring of Young Geordies' Employment, -- Household and Consumption Identities -- Robert Hollands --PART III ENVIRONMENT AND COUNTRYSIDE IN -- TRANSITION -- 8 A Sociological Perspective on Air Quality Monitoring in -- Teesside -- Peter Phillimore, Suzanne Moffatt and Tanja Pless-Mulloli -- 9 The 'Rural' in the 'Region': Towards an Inclusive Regional -- Policy for the North East -- Neil Ward and Philip Lowe -- 10 Local Interests, Regional Needs or National Imperative? -- The Otterburn Question and the Military Training in Rural -- Areas -- Rachel Woodward

AbstractPhilip Lowe died in February 2020, and so an academic career spanning five decades in environmental and rural social science and the sociology of knowledge came to an end. A pioneer of the social science of environmentalism, since the early 1990s, Philip Lowe had been closely associated with the Centre for Rural Economy at Newcastle University in the UK and had been the intellectual force behind establishing rural economy as both a subject and mode of social science analysis. This article reflects on a career and the evolving concept of 'rural economy' as an economic form, a policy realm and a knowledge practice. Through this history, it presents an account of the contribution of Philip Lowe's research and writing that, as a result of his death, now stands as a bounded and complete body of work for the benefit of future generations of scholars.