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Food and the city. (2007)
Book Chapter
Atkins, P., & Oddy, D. (2007). Food and the city. In P. Atkins, P. Lummel, & D. Oddy (Eds.), Food and the City in Europe since 1800 (1-10). Ashgate Publishing

Laboratories, laws, and the career of a commodity (2007)
Journal Article
Atkins, P. (2007). Laboratories, laws, and the career of a commodity. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 25(6), 967-989. https://doi.org/10.1068/d74j

Unlike most foods, milk is produced fresh at least twice every day, thus recreating, over 700 times a year, a commodity ‘designed’ by the combination of nature, commerce, and law. The paper is a study of the ontogenesis of this commodity in Britain s... Read More about Laboratories, laws, and the career of a commodity.

Environmental irony: summoning death in Bangladesh (2007)
Journal Article
Atkins, P., Hassan, M., & Dunn, C. (2007). Environmental irony: summoning death in Bangladesh. Environment and Planning A, 39(11), 2699-2714. https://doi.org/10.1068/a38123

The arsenic crisis that affects at least thirty million water consumers in Bangladesh has been called the world’s greatest ever environmental health disaster. Although the problem and the potential solutions have been presented confidently in the med... Read More about Environmental irony: summoning death in Bangladesh.

Indigenous floating cultivation: a sustainable agricultural practice in the wetlands of Bangladesh (2007)
Journal Article
Isalm, T., & Atkins, P. (2007). Indigenous floating cultivation: a sustainable agricultural practice in the wetlands of Bangladesh. Development in Practice, 17(1), 130-136. https://doi.org/10.1080/09614520601092733

Floating-bed cultivation has proved a successful means to produce agricultural crops in various wetland areas of the world. In freshwater lakes and wetlands, vegetables, flowers, and seedlings are grown in Bangladesh using this floating cultivation t... Read More about Indigenous floating cultivation: a sustainable agricultural practice in the wetlands of Bangladesh.