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Sustainable urban agriculture and forestation : the edible connected city
Dissertation (MTRP)--University of Pretoria, 2012.
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| spelling | oai:repository.up.ac.za:2263/26246 Sustainable urban agriculture and forestation : the edible connected city Landman, Karina vdurant@gmail.com Durant, Valerie A. Cpuaf Density Urban heat island effects Water Waste Continuously productive Urban agriculture and forestation Climate change Interrelatedness Sustainability Global food crisis Global population growth Food security Food systems strategy Urban agriculture Urban forest management Urban heat island Ecological footprint Adaptive systems Public participation Intensive green roofs Vertical farming Ecosystem services Ecological footprint Green infrastructure Agro ecology UCTD Dissertation (MTRP)--University of Pretoria, 2012. Current global agricultural practices are recognized as unsustainable. The increase in overall human population as well as the global trend of rural to urban migration, partially as a result of historically and continual unsustainable agricultural practices, exacerbates the vicious cycle of poverty and hunger in developing countries. Furthermore, cities and regions in developed countries practice unsustainable food production, distribution and consumption patterns, and as a result, exceed their global ecological footprint (Rees 2009). Consequently, the world is facing a global food (FAO 2009) and water crisis (UN Sick Water 2010). Cities and Regions must learn to feed themselves to address local food insecurity as well as protect from the climate effects of increased urbanization, including the Urban Heat Island effect (UHIe) by optimizing and fully integrating the local ecosystem services of food, water and forest within a tightly woven compact urban form through the implementation of strategic urban and regional food system planning. Cities can mitigate climate change and reduce the UHIe, by implementing sustainable intensive urban agriculture approaches through policy and zoning interventions that include concepts such as intensively productive urban agriculture that includes green roofs, vertical farming and greenways as continuously productive and edible urban landscapes, referred to in this paper as continuously productive urban agriculture and forestation (CPUAF) in the private and public realm. A highly participative, adaptive systems approach is explored as the key to sustainability within an economic world order that included corporate social responsibility and social enterprise as the foundation for the integration of multiple synergies. An increasing body of evidence often links urban forestation with urban greenery initiatives, as a carbon sink to reduce UHI effects, to reduce GHG emissions and as a tool for urban beautification and place making (ISDR: 2009,109). Urban agriculture, through the production of local food is increasingly recognized as a means to reduce fossil fuel emissions by reducing transportation and production outputs, to provide a secure local food source, enhance biodiversity and educate the public regarding food source while fostering a sense of community, environmental awareness and stewardship. This thesis explores the links between intensive urban agriculture and forestation, and the relationship between climate change, and the UHI’s as an adaptation and mitigation process in global cities, implemented as a interconnected, integrated, holistic urban management approach that has a further benefit of providing food security and a sustainable and local urban food source. Town and Regional Planning unrestricted 2013-09-07T04:08:07Z 2013-08-06 2013-09-07T04:08:07Z 2012-09-06 2012 2013-07-12 Dissertation Durant, VA 2012, Sustainable urban agriculture and forestation : the edible connected city , MTRP dissertation, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, viewed yymmdd < http://hdl.handle.net/2263/26246 > F13/4/684/gm/ http://hdl.handle.net/2263/26246 http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-07122013-112324/ © 2012 University of Pretoria. All rights reserved. The copyright in this work vests in the University of Pretoria. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the University of Pretoria application/pdf University of Pretoria |
| spellingShingle | Cpuaf Density Urban heat island effects Water Waste Continuously productive Urban agriculture and forestation Climate change Interrelatedness Sustainability Global food crisis Global population growth Food security Food systems strategy Urban agriculture Urban forest management Urban heat island Ecological footprint Adaptive systems Public participation Intensive green roofs Vertical farming Ecosystem services Ecological footprint Green infrastructure Agro ecology UCTD Sustainable urban agriculture and forestation : the edible connected city |
| title | Sustainable urban agriculture and forestation : the edible connected city |
| title_full | Sustainable urban agriculture and forestation : the edible connected city |
| title_fullStr | Sustainable urban agriculture and forestation : the edible connected city |
| title_full_unstemmed | Sustainable urban agriculture and forestation : the edible connected city |
| title_short | Sustainable urban agriculture and forestation : the edible connected city |
| title_sort | sustainable urban agriculture and forestation the edible connected city |
| topic | Cpuaf Density Urban heat island effects Water Waste Continuously productive Urban agriculture and forestation Climate change Interrelatedness Sustainability Global food crisis Global population growth Food security Food systems strategy Urban agriculture Urban forest management Urban heat island Ecological footprint Adaptive systems Public participation Intensive green roofs Vertical farming Ecosystem services Ecological footprint Green infrastructure Agro ecology UCTD |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/2263/26246 http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-07122013-112324/ |