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- Ambros, Pontus, et al.
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Trends in Agricultural Land in EU Countries of the Baltic Sea Region from the Perspective of Resilience and Food Security
- 2020
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Ingår i: Sustainability. - : MDPI. - 2071-1050. ; 12:14
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Agricultural land is crucial for the production of food and is, thereby, directly connected to food security. Agriculture is threatened by a multitude of hazards, such as climate change, peak oil, peak soil and peak phosphorus. These hazards call for a more resilient food system that can deliver food security for the global population in the future. In this paper, we analyse the Baltic Sea region's ten European Union (EU) member states, investigating which trends are to be found in statistics between 2005 to 2016 on the development of agricultural land. In our paper, we analyse these trends of agricultural land by looking at three categories of data: (1) utilised agricultural area, (2) number of farms and (3) agricultural labour input. The results showed a trend that agricultural land is increasingly dominated by large farms, whilst over 1 million predominantly small farms have disappeared, and agricultural-labour input has dropped by more than 26%. These trends point towards a mechanisation of production, where larger and less labour-intensive farms take over production. This could partly be due to the EU common agricultural policy, which tends to favour large farms over small. Further, we argue for the importance of farm-size diversity, and about the dangers to food security that a system that is dominated by large farms possesses. Lastly, we conclude that the concept of resilience needs to be better included in policy development and food-system planning, and that more research needs to be done, analysing how existing agricultural policies impact the parameters studied in this paper.
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Basic Patterns of Sustainability : Reports from the Superbs project
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Samlingsverk (redaktörskap) (populärvet., debatt m.m.)abstract
- CONTENTS1. A strong municipality Madeleine Granvik2. Cultures of municipal administration Madeleine Granvik and Inger Christoferson3. Urban growth and long term planning Madeleine Granvik and Mia Forsberg4. The city as a sustainable living system Per G. Berg5. Demonstrating sustainability in human habitats Per G. Berg6. Developing sustainability in Hågaby village Per G. Berg7. Studying sustainability in municipal transformation Gunnar Persson and Anders Bro8. Strategies for managing economic decline Gunnar Persson and Anders Bro9. Managing housing policy during an economic decline Gunnar Persson and Anders Bro10. Culture in municipal transformation Gunnar Persson and Anders Bro11. Migration in the municipality of Enköping Wendelin Müller-Wille
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- Berg, Per, et al.
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Green-blue Infrastructure in Urban-Rural Landscapes– introducing Resilient Citylands
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Ingår i: Nordisk Arkitekturforskning. - 1102-5824. ; 2, s. 11-42
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- With theglobal change crisis pushing – and new knowledge about sustainability in socio-ecological systems pulling – there presently is a window of opportunity to further our understanding about resilient landscapes. In this paper we focus on Green-blue infrastructure as a key component of human settlements. Our main focus is theoretical and conceptual but we also illustrate its values and functions to deliver recreation, preserve biodiversity, create urban structure, support cultural identity, provide ecosystems services and maintain primary production/recycling. We further elaborate on the potential for new interactions between green-blue- and built structures, discussing international cases of both practical and theoretical relevance. Resilient Citylands is proposed as a new concept useful for e.g. landscape architecture and planning. It represents a new reciprocal co-evolution for different scales: of urban and rural areas; of human settlements and natural ecosystems1, and of constructed and green-blue areas and elements within urban settings. We investigate how functionally dense, mixed-use, vibrant, inter-sensory and contemporary urban areas could be combined with cutting edge, lean and efficient rural areas.
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- Berg, Per, et al.
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Micro-comprehensive planning in Baltic Sea urban local areas
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Ingår i: Proceedings of the ICE - Engineering Sustainability. - : Thomas Telford Ltd.. - 1478-4629 .- 1751-7680. ; 163, s. 219-232
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Seven key community resources (physical, economic, biological, organisational, social, cultural and aesthetic resources) were studied in each of 22 common local urban townscape areas in 11 cities in the Baltic Sea region. A method was developed for multi-dimensional assessment of the sustainability status of the local communities according to the United Nations Habitat agenda. From an analysis of strong and weak points of the seven resources, a contextual micro-comprehensive plan for sustainable community development was outlined for each local area, comprising three components: universal, townscape-type-specific and place-specific strategies. The research also revealed unique key drivers for change for each area - either a specific problem or a vision for change. By addressing the key drivers, it is suggested that sustainable community development could be more efficiently introduced and implemented.
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- Berg, Per, et al.
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Resilient Citylands - Green-blue-built transport systems in Baltic Sea Region cities
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- The organization of transport systems for energy, food, material and people, is fundamental for upholding sustainable human habitats. Globalization and specialization has catalyzed economic growth and human development, but simultaneously has cut off geographic links between urban and rural areas and weakened interactions between urban green-blue and built up areas. Urban land-use has - during the past half-a-century been dictated by the built-up structure and car traffic planning, whereas green-blue infrastructures' ecosystems regulatory services, health-promoting properties and economic values have been attributed a lower priority. The main objective of our research is to explore ways the re-integration of urban and rural areas and functions - as well as to investigate the potential of green-blue structure values in cities in the Baltic Sea Region (BSR). We tentatively term a modern integration of urban and rural areas and functions - and of combined green-blue-built infrasystems - "Resilient Citylands". Citylands formation is strongly linked to a transport modal shift, a new transport structure and mobility functions. In our Resilient Citylands program we work with a long-term partnership between selected cities, universities and relevant planning companies to produce effective tools, methods and a portfolio of real Cityland cases - serving as models in the entire Baltic Sea Region. Target groups are researchers, planners, companies, NGO's, authorities and citizens.
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- Bergquist, Daniel, et al.
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The Sustainability of Living in a "Green" Urban District : An Emergy Perspective
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Ingår i: Sustainability. - : MDPI AG. - 2071-1050. ; 12:14
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- While urban areas hold great potential for contributing to sustainable development, there is a critical need to better understand and verify what measures improve urban sustainability. To achieve this, this project implements emergy synthesis to evaluate the environmental support to a building-called Smaragden-located in a certified "green" urban district in Uppsala, Sweden. Inputs to the building's construction and maintenance phases are accounted for, as are flows supporting the residents' everyday practices (i.e., urban life), on a yearly per capita basis. In this way, the relative importance of lifestyle issues versus the built environment is quantified and compared. Key focus areas are identified where efficiency and sustainability gains are most likely. The emergy synthesis detailed the top contributors to urban resource consumption and revealed that both the lifestyle and built environment in Smaragden are highly unsustainable, ranking poorly in terms of the emergy indices calculated, and, when considered from a global emergy perspective, overshooting resource consumption by more than 70 times. The paper therefore concludes that interdependencies of urban districts on systems at larger scales of society and environment need to be explicitly addressed and actively incorporated in urban policy and planning, and that design interventions are hence grounded in a systems perspective on urban sustainability.
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