Writing – Lenore Newman

Newman’s jaunts through the animal kingdom alternate with themed meals with her friend Dan as she ponders how historical extinctions are linked to our current food systems, what we can do about it, and how humans must follow the example of the famed New York ‘pizza rat,’ and adapt to the food that comes their way.Booklist

Free-wheeling look at the flora and fauna we’ve eaten into oblivion.Toronto Star

Speaking in Cod Tongues is full of mouth-watering examples and histories that eloquently demonstrate how Canadians are what they eat, regardless of whether dinner that night is at a Chinese-Canadian restaurant in a small town in the prairies, at a roadside stand selling poutine in eastern Canada or at a trendy, high-end sushi joint in a Vancouver bistro.Christine Sismondo, Toronto Star

As someone deeply connected with regional expressions of food culture in Canada, I know this book will occupy a special place in my library. The idea of an overarching national cuisine for Canada is as complex as the country is diverse. What a wonderful gastronomical journey of discovery!Jamie Kennedy

Books

Journal Articles

Newman L. et al. (2017). Farm stores in agriburbia: The roles of agricultural retail on the rural-urban fringe. Canadian Food Studies/La Revue canadienne des études sur l’alimentation 4(1), 4-23.

Nixon, D. & Newman, L. (2016). The efficacy and politics of farmland preservation through land use regulation: Changes in southwest British Columbia’s Agricultural Land Reserve. Land Use Policy 59, 227-240.

Harris, G., Nixon, D., Newman, L., & Mullinix, K. (2016). Delineating the Southwest British Columbia bioregion for food system design and planning: A practical approach. Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development 6(4), 71-86.

Newman, L., Powell, L. J., & Wittman, H. (2015). Commensality, sustainability, and restaurant clustering in a suburban community. Suburban Sustainability 2(2).

Newman, L. & Nixon, D. (2014). Farming in an agriburban ecovillage development: An approach to limiting agricultural/residential conflict. SAGE Open 4(4).

Dale, A., Newman, L. & Newell, R. (2014). Patterns of our Footsteps: Rhythms, Diversity, and Topophilia in Urban Landscapes. Spaces and Flows: An International Journal of Urban and ExtraUrban Studies 4(2), 85-93.

Newman L. (2014). Notes from the Nanaimo bar trail. Canadian Food Studies 1(1), 10-19.

Newman L. (2014). Blackberries: Canadian cuisine and marginal foods. Cuizine, 5(1).

Newman, L. & Dale, A. (2013). Celebrating the mundane: Nature and the built environment. Environmental Values, 22(3), 401-413.

Newman, L. & Burnett, K. (2013). Street food and vibrant urban spaces: Lessons from Portland, Oregon. Local Environment, 18(2), 233-248.

Newman, L., Ling, C. & Peters-Snider, K. (2013). Between field and table: Environmental implications of local food distribution. International Journal of Sustainable Society, 5(1), 11-23.

Newman, L., Dale, A. & Nixon, D. (2012). The frog dilemma: Urban stream restoration and the nature/culture dialectic. Environments Journal, 38(1), 19-32.

Newman, L. (2012). Neige et citrouille: Seasonality in a Canadian urban market. CuiZine: The Journal of Canadian Food Cultures, 3(2).

Newman, L., Dale, A. & Ling, C. (2011). Meeting on the edge: Urban spaces and diffusion of the novel. Spaces and Flows, 1(1), 1-14.

Ling, C. & Newman, L. (2011). Untangling the food web: Farm-to-market distances in British Columbia, Canada. Local Environment, 16(8), 807-822.

Dale, A. & Newman, L. (2010). All things counter, original, spare, strange: Why are we so bad at difference?. Canadian Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences, 1(1), 38-43.

Dale, A., Newman, L. & Ling, C. (2010). Facilitating transdisciplinary research teams through on-line collaboration. The International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 11(1), 36-48.

Newman, L. & Dale, A. (2009). Large footprints in a small world: Towards a macroeconomics of scale. Sustainability: Science, Practice, & Policy, 5(1), 9-19.

Newman, L. (2009). Extreme local food: Two case studies in assisted urban small plot intensive agriculture. Environments, 36(1), 33-43.

Dale, A., & Newman, L. (2009). Sustainable development for some: “Green” urban development and affordability. Local Environment, 14(7), 669-683. [Reprinted in Mandarin in Urban Insight.]

Newman, L., Waldron, L., Dale, A. & Carrier, K. (2008). Sustainable urban community development from the grass roots: Challenges and opportunities in a pedestrian street initiative. Local Environment, 13(2), 129-139.

Newman, L. & Dale, A. (2008). Limits to growth rates in an ethereal economy. Futures, 40(3), 261-267.

Dale, A. & Newman, L. (2008). Social capital: A necessary and sufficient condition. Community Development Journal, 45(1), 5-21.

Dale, A., Ling, C. & Newman, L. (2008). Does place matter: Sustainable community development in three Canadian communities. Ethics, Place, & Environment, 11(3), 267-281.

Newman, L. & Dale, A. (2007). Homophily and agency: Creating effective sustainable development networks. Environment, Development and Sustainability, 9(1), 79-90.

Newman, L. (2007). The virtuous cycle: Incremental changes and a process-based sustainable development. Sustainable Development, 15, 267-274.

Dale, A. & Newman, L. (2006). Sustainable community development, networks, and resilience. Environments, 34(2), 17-27.

Newman, L. (2005). Uncertainty, innovation, and dynamic sustainable development. Sustainability: Science, Practice, & Policy, 1(2), 25-31.

Newman, L. L. & Dale, A. (2005). Network structure, diversity, and proactive resilience building: A response to Tompkins and Adger. Ecology and Society, 10(1), r2.

Dale, A. & Newman, L. (2005). Sustainable development, education and literacy. Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 6(4), 351-362.

Book Chapters

Newman, L. & Newman, K.A. (2017). Scripting the City: Street Food, Urban Policy, and Neoliberal Redevelopment in Vancouver, Canada. In J. Agyeman, C. Matthews, & H. Sobel (Eds.), Food Trucks, Cultural Identity, and Social Justice (pp. 243-262). Cambridge: MIT Press.

Newman, L. (2015). The fall and rise of the Canadian public market. In M. McWilliams (Ed.), Food and Markets: Proceedings of the Oxford Symposium on Food and Cookery 2014 (pp. 290-298). London: Prospect Books.

Burnett, K. & Newman, L. (2014). Urban policy regimes and the political economy of street food in Canada and the United States. In R.C.V. Cardoso, M. Companion, & S.R. Marras (Eds.), Street Food: Culture, Economy, Health and Governance (pp. 46-60). New York: Routledge.

Newman, L. & Waldron, L. (2012). Towards walkable urban neighbourhoods. In A. Dale, W. Dushenko & P. Robinson (Eds.), Urban Sustainability: Reconnecting Space and Place (pp. 106-126). Toronto: University of Toronto Press.

Newman, L. (2009). Human-environment interactions: Complex systems approaches for dynamic sustainable development. In R.A. Meyers (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Complexity and Systems Science (pp. 4631-4643). New York: Springer.

Reports

Powell, L., Newman, L. & Kurrein, M. (2016). Agriculture’s connection to health: A summary of the evidence relevant to British Columbia. A report for the BC Provincial Health Authority, Population and Public Health Program.

Karlson, E., Newman, L., Hotte, N. & Martens, L. (2013). Climate Change Adaptation and Canada’s Crops and Food Supply. White paper published by the Adaptation to Climate Change Team, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, BC.

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