CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2012
| Author | Baumbach, Lea Kristina |
|---|---|
| Title | Urban food production. A contribution to urban resilience in Berlin? |
| Summary | Facing future challenges like climate change, peak oil and population rise on Earth, humanity has to find solutions of how to prevail a stable state of well-being. As the normative concept of sustainable development does not provide a strategic approach, the concept of resilience of social-ecological systems might provide a complementary framework. The industrialized food system with its well-known limitations has provoked the appearance of urban food production in cities all over the world. Although not threatened by a shortage of food, a rising number of citizens are growing vegetables and fruits in Berlin. The current study aims at fusing these two developments by investigating how urban food production can contribute to urban resilience of Berlin. Interviews with seven different types of urban food production in Berlin provided insights into their practices and their stakeholder-networks. Following the conceptual framework for ‘resilience thinking’, this study shows that urban food producers in Berlin have a high potential to make Berlin’s food-system more resilient towards unknown disturbances. It was further found that the interactions with state actors have to be considered specifically when it comes to enhancing urban food production as part of a strategic resilience approach. The analysis revealed the provision of public open space (either, in a spatial and regulative sense) to drive the enhancement of urban food production and thus to contribute to urban resilience. |
| Supervisor | Aistara, Guntra |
| Department | Environment Sciences and Policy MSc |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2012/baumbach_lea.pdf |
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