Over the last decades, the term resilience became predominant in many disciplines deals with sustainability, adaptation and territorial risks. In Ecology, describes the capacity of complex systems to react to stress phenomena by activating response and adaptation strategies in order to restore the homeostasis. One significant field in which the ecological resilience can be investigated is agriculture. In term of food supply, the more cities cut themselves off from countryside the more they become fragile ecosystems without learning how to regulate their self-sufficiency. More sustainable practices would take into account all over Europe, estimating the real food demand on local scale, monitoring the input and output of energy/production flows, according to the concept of regional foodshed. The paper addresses the question of how localized food production in the form of urban and peri-urban agriculture can contribute to a more sustainable and climate-optimized city model, able also to re-think open space potentials. In this sense the principle of multifunctionality become an integrative factor applied to urban landscapes in order to react the specific challenges of contemporary city, in terms of living space, services and ecology.
Exploring regional foodshed: a context of urban resilience
Sommariva E.
2014-01-01
Abstract
Over the last decades, the term resilience became predominant in many disciplines deals with sustainability, adaptation and territorial risks. In Ecology, describes the capacity of complex systems to react to stress phenomena by activating response and adaptation strategies in order to restore the homeostasis. One significant field in which the ecological resilience can be investigated is agriculture. In term of food supply, the more cities cut themselves off from countryside the more they become fragile ecosystems without learning how to regulate their self-sufficiency. More sustainable practices would take into account all over Europe, estimating the real food demand on local scale, monitoring the input and output of energy/production flows, according to the concept of regional foodshed. The paper addresses the question of how localized food production in the form of urban and peri-urban agriculture can contribute to a more sustainable and climate-optimized city model, able also to re-think open space potentials. In this sense the principle of multifunctionality become an integrative factor applied to urban landscapes in order to react the specific challenges of contemporary city, in terms of living space, services and ecology.
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