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- Barthel, Stephan, 1968-, et al.
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Global urbanization and food production in direct competition for land : Leverage places to mitigate impacts on SDG2 and on the Earth System
- 2019
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In: The Anthropocene Review. - : SAGE Publications. - 2053-0196 .- 2053-020X. ; 6:1-2, s. 71-97
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Global urbanization and food production are in direct competition for land. This paper carries outa critical review of how displacing crop production from urban and peri-urban land to other areas– because of issues related to soil quality – will demand a substantially larger proportion of theEarth’s terrestrial land surface than the surface area lost to urban encroachment. Such relationshipsmay trigger further distancing effects and unfair social-ecological teleconnections. It risks also settingin motion amplifying effects within the Earth System. In combination, such multiple stressors set thescene for food riots in cities of the Global South. Our review identifies viable leverage points on whichto act in order to navigate urban expansion away from fertile croplands. We first elaborate on thepolitical complexities in declaring urban and peri-urban lands with fertile soils as one global commons.We find that the combination of an advisory global policy aligned with regional policies enablingrobust common properties rights for bottom-up actors and movements in urban and peri-urbanagriculture (UPA) as multi-level leverage places to intervene. To substantiate the ability of aligningglobal advisory policy with regional planning, we review both past and contemporary examples whereempowering local social-ecological UPA practices and circular economies have had a stimulatingeffect on urban resilience and helped preserve, restore, and maintain urban lands with healthy soils.
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- Barthel, Stephan, 1968-, et al.
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Urban gardens, agriculture, and water management : Sources of resilience forlong-term food security in cities
- 2013
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In: Ecological Economics. - Amsterdam : Elsevier. - 0921-8009 .- 1873-6106. ; 86, s. 224-234
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Food security has always been a key resilience facet for people living in cities. This paper discusses lessons for food security fromhistoric and prehistoric cities. The Chicago school of urban sociology established amodernist understanding of urbanism as an essentialist reality separate from its larger life-support system. However, different urban histories have given rise to a remarkable spatial diversity and temporal variation viewed at the global and long-term scales that are often overlooked in urban scholarship.Drawing on two case studies fromwidely different historical and cultural contexts – the Classic Maya civilization of the late first millennium AD and Byzantine Constantinople – this paper demonstrates urban farming as a pertinent feature of urban support systems over the long-term and global scales. We show how urban gardens, agriculture, and water management as well as the linked social–ecological memories of how to uphold such practices over time have contributed to long-term food security during eras of energy scarcity. We exemplify with the function of such local blue–green infrastructures during chocks to urban supply lines. We conclude that agricultural production is not “the antithesis of the city," but often an integrated urban activity that contribute to the resilience of cities.
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- Barthtel, Stephan, 1968-, et al.
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Urban Gardens, Agricultures and Waters : Sources of Resilience for Long-Term Food Security in Cities
- 2013
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In: Ecological Economics. - : Elsevier BV. - 0921-8009 .- 1873-6106. ; 86, s. 224-234
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Food security has always been a key resilience facet for people living in cities. This paper discusses lessons for food security from historic and prehistoric cities. The Chicago school of urban sociology established a modernist understanding of urbanism as an essentialist reality separate from its larger life-support system. However, different urban histories have given rise to a remarkable spatial diversity and temporal variation viewed at the global and long-term scales that are often overlooked in urban scholarship. Drawing on two case studies from widely different historical and cultural contexts - the Classic Maya civilization of the late first millennium AD and Byzantine Constantinople - this paper demonstrates urban farming as a pertinent feature of urban support systems over the long-term and global scales. We show how urban gardens, agriculture, and water management as well as the linked social-ecological memories of how to uphold such practices over time have contributed to long-term food security during eras of energy scarcity. We exemplify with the function of such local blue-green infrastructures during chocks to urban supply lines. We conclude that agricultural production is not "the antithesis of the city," but often an integrated urban activity that contribute to the resilience of cities.
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- Cooper, Jago, et al.
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Thinking Back to Look Ahead
- 2014
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In: Global Change. ; :83, s. 20-23
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- Drescher, Axel, et al.
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Urban and Peri-Urban Agriculture in the Global South
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In: Charles M. Shackleton, Sarel S. Cilliers, Elandire Davoren & Marié J. du Toit (eds), Urban Ecology in the Global South. - Cham : Springer Nature. - 9783030676506 ; , s. 293-324
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Book chapter (peer-reviewed)
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- Ekblom, Anneli, et al.
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Introduction
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In: The resilience of heritage : cultivating a future of the past : essays in honour of Professor Paul J.J. Sinclair / edited by Anneli Ekblom, Christian Isendahl och Karl-Johan Lindholm.. - Uppsala : Uppsala universitet. - 1651-1255. - 9789150626759 ; , s. 9-28
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