Edible urbanism 5.0

Russo, Alessio; Cirella, Giuseppe T.

doi:10.1057/s41599-019-0377-8

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“…Indeed, though UK councils are obliged to provide urban residents with sufficient growing space, from a social perspective it has to be recognised that existing green spaces are intrinsically valuable to residents’ well-being - albeit other studies have raised the potential of urban agriculture as a way of reconnecting people with nature and food or, simply, as a pleasurable viewing experience (Wiltshire 2010 ). Overall, it has been noted that urban agriculture, in its variety of forms, must be developed in a careful manner to make best use of available ecosystem services whilst not transferring environmental impacts from one place to another (e.g., Russo and Cirella 2019 ; Beacham et al 2019 ). Any marked increase in local production of nutritious foods would thus require some level of innovation, community coordination and associated investment.…”

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Mapping the production-consumption gap of an urban food system: an empirical case study of food security and resilience

Jensen

Orfila

2021

Food Sec.

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Urban food systems are complex and increasingly recognised as not being sustainable, equitable or resilient. Though globalisation and lengthening of agrifood supply chains has brought many benefits, such as year-long availability of fresh produce and modernisation opportunities for some developing regions, they have increased reliance on food imports and reduced the food and nutrition resilience of many cities. This premise has been widely witnessed following recent financial, climatic and pandemic driven disruptions to food supplies. A greater understanding is thus needed of the lived reality of a modern city’s ability to sustainably and equitably feed itself in a crisis situation or otherwise. In a changing world, such knowledge is valuable on a variety of strategic planning levels. Employing publically available data, the scale of food security and resilience, and options for their improvement, are holistically assessed through a case study spatial analysis of the urban food system of the city of Leeds in the United Kingdom. The case study found that the Leeds city region is home to a significant and diverse food production and provision system, but it is not food secure in terms of providing sufficient energy or macronutrients, or functioning in an equitable manner for all of its residents. Options for improving the performance of the system, including urban farming and industrial symbiosis, were found to be nuanced and would only be effective alongside a range of complimentary interventions as well as high levels of investment, multi-sector cooperation and strong governance. Though food system evolution and development are grounded in local context, the methods, general findings and circular economy focussed recommendations emanating from the case study, are widely applicable.

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Mapping the production-consumption gap of an urban food system: an empirical case study of food security and resilience

Jensen

Orfila

2021

Food Sec.

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“…The development of numerous EGI-related regenerative projects and programs are exemplary for urban planners and thinkers alike; they can transform ruinous, abandoned, protected, or other types of urban-oriented landscape into a usable food source and lifestyle advantage. This perspective examined EGI with respect to the three-pillar approach (i.e., ecological, social, and economic co-benefits) by improving our understanding of food sources and, in particular, their proximity for city-dwellers [12,42]. In doing so, we recognized that increasing food security and decreasing food transport distances open up a vast array of interconnected advantages and services, since the majority of people worldwide live in urbanized areas.…”

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Edible Green Infrastructure for Urban Regeneration and Food Security: Case Studies from the Campania Region

Russo

Cirella

2020

Agriculture

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Ten identified edible green infrastructure (EGI)-related urban regeneration case studies within the Campania region, Italy, are explored in relation to local community development, involvement, and education. Urban space and agriculture are promoted as sustainably planned networks for edible food components and structures. Within an urban ecosystem, city planners are actively promoting urban agriculture after an increase in the availability of unused land. Advantages for public health include stress reduction and physical activity, as well as sustainability of urban gardens by way of far-sighted urban planning. Case studies within the Campania region illustrate EGI know-hows and awareness, and they elucidate upon a number of beneficial reasons for its implementation. Within the Campania region, all five provinces showed positive impacts when using EGI for urban regeneration and well-being. Recent developments from the COVID-19 pandemic are reinforcing a rethink of food security and food supply chains.

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“…Mohammadi and Taylor suggest that digital twins can be a tool for (smart) cities to address the challenges of rapid urbanisation, as achieving urban sustainability and resilience objectives, including the planning and maintenance of water supply, recycling infrastructure, the allocation and consumption of resources [4]. Albeit they focus on human-infrastructure-technology interactions and do not explicitly include an edible green infrastructure [5] with non-human inhabitants and biodiversity in their perspective, the extension to include these aspects is straight forward. A city is a complex system of many and diverse actors, with a multitude of roles, tasks, functions, relationships and interactions.…”

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A Digital Twin of the Social-Ecological System Urban Beekeeping

Johannsen¹,

Senger²,

Kluß³

2020

Progress in IS

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We describe the system design and setup of our digital twin of the socialecological system urban beekeeping, with the aim to support agroecological methods in urban agriculture. The physical space consists of the bee populations, their beekeepers who are part of a beekeeping community, non-beekeepers who consume honey, organisational actors shaping rules and regulations and the environment. The virtual space is a multi-agent model, where autonomous agents can take actions and make decisions in partially observed Markov processes. To tie the physical and the virtual space, we embedded bee hives in an IoT environment and implemented an online documentation tool as a web application, where beekeepers take short notes about their work and observations. Bee hives are equipped with sensors, such as humidity, pressure and temperature sensors and a scale. Additionally, we pull data from the German weather service (Deutscher Wetter Dienst, DWD). In our system architecture, multiple levels on data fusion are performed, beginning with raw data quality estimation and sensor failure detection. On higher levels, states of entities are estimated, such as the health of a bee colony, and assessment made whether a state is normal or to be considered an anomaly. Finally on the highest level, we deal with the desires of our agents, how actions should be chosen in order to achieve or maintain desirable and rewarding world states. We hope to be able to refine our digital twin into a decision support tool for small-scale (bee) farmers and communal political actors that helps to reach desirable world states by predicting and simulating the effects of actions within the complex system of urban beekeeping.

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Edible urbanism 5.0

Cited by 39 publications

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Mapping the production-consumption gap of an urban food system: an empirical case study of food security and resilience

Mapping the production-consumption gap of an urban food system: an empirical case study of food security and resilience

Edible Green Infrastructure for Urban Regeneration and Food Security: Case Studies from the Campania Region

A Digital Twin of the Social-Ecological System Urban Beekeeping

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