Socio-Metabolic Perspectives on the Sustainability of Local Food Systems: Insights for Science, Pol

Foreword.- Introduction.-PART I Social Metabolism and Local Food Systems: Key Concepts.- Chapter 1.1 In Search of Local Sustainable Agro-food Systems.- Chapter 1.2 Towards an Energy-Landscape Integrated Analysis (ELIA) in agroecosystems.- Chapter 1.3 Integrating indicators of energy efficiency, power and social metabolism for sustainability assessment of farming and food systems.- PART II Social Metabolism and Local Food Systems: Case studies beyond North and South.- Chapter 2.1 Sustainability challenges of pre-industrial food systems: Insights from Long-Term Socio-Ecological Research in Austria.- Chapter 2.2 From vineyards to feedlots: Socio-metabolic transition of the Vallés County (1860-1950-1999).- Chapter 2.3 Learnings from an Austrian rural case to foster leapfrogging unsustainable practices in industrializing countries.- Chapter 2.4 Leapfrogging conventional development? Innovations to overcome sustainability constraints in a small-farmer village, Cambodia.- Chapter 2.5 Social and financial metabolism of a small-scale organic farm: looking for sustainability at local level.- Chapter 2.6 Towards more sustainable diets? A socioecological reading of food consumption patterns on a Greek island.- Chapter 2.7 Local and Global food supply chains. Is their comparison meaningful? Lessons learned from an organic tomato case study.- Chapter 2.8 Closing nutrient cycles in the city of Madrid: intersection of grey and green infrastructure systems.- Conclusions: What pathways exist for sustainable agro-food systems?