In 2013, critical human geographer Chiara Tornaghi asked this question:
Is access to urban land for food-growing guaranteed across the spectrum of society?
In the third Heo/Geo Lecture Series for 2025, James Vanderberg looks into these issues. The talk will take place on the 21st of March 2025 at 5:30PM via Zoom. Titled Cultivating Urban Resilience with Urban Agriculture the talk is co-sponsored by the Philippine Geographical Society (PGS) and the UP Department of Geography.
The liveability and safety of cities is increasingly challenged by global polycrisis, that is, entangled crises with synchronizing and amplifying inter-system dynamics that produce novel emergent harms which are greater than the sum of their parts. Consequently, cities must prioritize multifunctional resilience strategies that improve their ability to cope and adapt with disruptions and transform structures and processes which limit their current or future adaptive capacities. Accordingly, the emergence of a range of novel urban agriculture practices, which extend beyond community gardens, to also include building integrated rooftop greenhouses and indoor vertical plant factories are increasingly acknowledged for their cross-sector and cross-scale urban resilience benefits.
As will be discussed throughout the lecture, innovative approaches to urban agriculture have the potential to strengthen the resilience capacities of a city's social, environmental, economic, institutional, and infrastructural subsystems. However, questions remain as to how to ensure such urban agriculture driven resilience strategies are implemented equitability, take into account spatial and temporal trade-offs, and contribute to the harmonization of societal values and ecological justice.
James Vandenberg is a 4th year Predoc in the Urban Studies Working Group, within the Department of Geography and Regional Research Department at the University of Vienna, Austria. After completing his BA in International Relations and Development at the University of British Colombia and the University of Amsterdam, he completed an Erasmus Mundus Joint Masters in Urban Studies which was included 4 semesters at 6 universities in Brussels, Vienna, Copenhagen and Madrid. His current research delves into the multifunctionality of Urban Agriculture to better understand the connection between food and resilience. This pursuit is aimed at illuminating strategies that help contribute to humanities ability to both feed the estimated 10 billion people expected to inhabit earth in 2050, while simultaneously preparing cities to adapt to the climate change impacts of a 2-degree world.
Presented by the Environment and Development Geographies (EDGE) research cluster by the UP Department of Geography, the talk satisfies most of the Social Development Goals of United Nations but especially #11 (Sustainable Cities and Communities) and #15 (Life on Land).
To participate in the lecture, please click this link: https://tinyurl.com/2p9tahr4
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