Food Studies: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Why, What and How We Eat: Ecology

Ecological issues concerning food can span anything from the health concerns inside factory farm, the traditional farmer's relationship with the environment, as well as concerns about pollution, global warming and population ratios to resources. 

Ecological Society of America, Volume 92, Issue 12

Use these databases to find articles about ecology:

• Brüssow, H. (2007). The quest for food: A natural history of eating. NY: Springer.
• Ferry, N. and Gatehouse A. M. R. (Eds.). (2009). Environmental impact of genetically modified crops. Wallingford, UK;Cambridge, MA: CABI.
• Ungar P. S. (Eds.). (2007). Evolution of the human diet: The known, the unknown, and the unknowable [e-resource]Oxford University Press, NY.
• Miller, G.T. (2012).  Essentials of Ecology. Belmont, CA : Brooks/Cole.
• Norberg-Hodge, H. (2002). In Gorelick S., Merrifield T. (Eds.), Bringing the food economy home: Local alternatives to global agribusiness. Bloomfield, CT: Kumarian Press.