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Jennifer Blecha

Associate Professor
Ph.D., University of Minnesota, 2007

Specialties: 
Food justice, urban agriculture, waste and waste prevention, public policy, critical animal geographies, feminist and critical race geographies,

Contact Information

Phone: 
(415) 405-2495

Office: 
HSS 265
Office Hours: 
On leave AY20-21
Email: 
jblecha@sfsu.edu
Courses Taught: 
The Human Environment
Transforming Food and Ag Systems
Agriculture and Food Supply
Environmental Problems and Solutions
Geography of Garbage and Waste Reduction
Seminar in Cultural Geography: Human & Social Geography

Biography

Recent publications:

Blecha, J. (2015). Regulating backyard slaughter: Strategies and gaps in municipal livestock ordinances. Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development, 6(1), 33–48.

Blecha, Jennifer, and Helga Leitner. "Reimagining the food system, the economy, and urban life: new urban chicken-keepers in US cities." Urban geography 35.1 (2014): 86-108.

Blecha, Jennifer, and Adam Davis. "Distance, proximity, and freedom: Identifying conflicting priorities regarding urban backyard livestock slaughter."Geoforum 57 (2014): 67-77.

 

 

CV: 

Blecha CV - Aug 2015.pdf

PDF icon Blecha CV - Aug 2015.pdf

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COVID-19 information:

Please see current university notifcations related to campus access at at news.sfsu.edu/covid-19. All classes are being held in online mode through Summer 2021, and all labs and classrooms are closed, so students will have received information from their instructors about how their classes will operate. For GISc support, see https://gis.sfsu.edu. 

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