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Seeds of Change : Using Urban Agriculture to Move a City Towards Sustainability

As the global sustainability challenge intensifies, food has emerged as a critical issue in sustainable development. Growing food within city limits, or urban agriculture (UA), is one way to help increase access to fresh, local, healthy food for everyone while simultaneously reducing environmental impacts. While UA is increasing on a global scale, it is not always being supported in a strategic manner. This thesis explores the opportunity of how UA can be supported to help move cities towards sustainability. Current UA practices were evaluated based on information from literature and interviews using the five-level framework method. As a way to help provide guidance in strategic planning, the framework for strategic sustainable development (FSSD) was utilized, introducing the concepts of a full-system perspective, a principle-based definition of sustainability, and backcasting. Combining current UA success principles, stakeholder input, and the FSSD, an enhanced planning guide was created as a tool to help cities better plan for UA.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA1/oai:DiVA.org:bth-2191
Date January 2009
CreatorsPeng, Chen, Peters, Adele, Wetherell, Treva, Yep, Valerie
PublisherBlekinge Tekniska Högskola, Avdelningen för maskinteknik, Blekinge Tekniska Högskola, Avdelningen för maskinteknik, Blekinge Tekniska Högskola, Avdelningen för maskinteknik, Blekinge Tekniska Högskola, Avdelningen för maskinteknik
Source SetsDiVA Archive at Upsalla University
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeStudent thesis, info:eu-repo/semantics/bachelorThesis, text
Formatapplication/pdf
Rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess

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