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The book gives an overview of frameworks, methods, and case studies for the analysis of the relations between agriculture and the city, in Europe and the Mediterranean. Its origin is the DAUME Project (Sustainability of urban agriculture in the Mediterranean) and the 5th annual Conference of the Sustainable Food Planning group of AESOP, held in Montpellier (France) in 2013. The book provides a set of approaches of the sustainability of urban food systems from an actors’ perspective. The Part I presents systemic approaches of agricultural-urban interactions at the city-region scales in France, Egypt, Italy and Morocco. Local food issues, agriculture-urban relations, short food chains and urban livestock are taken as examples to develop systemic approaches showing both integrative and dualism processes linking agriculture and the city. The Part II deals with methods and tools for urban planning and local development, in order to design and assess sustainable food systems. At the city-region scale, chapters show how to estimate relevant boundaries of a sustainable foodshed, to design tools including local food supply In urban planning, and to evaluate contributions of local projects to global sustainability. The Part III inventories the recent changes in urban agriculture and the new forms of governance which are emerging in European cities (Athens, Berlin, Lisboa, Montpellier, Paris and Zurich). Referring to urban agriculture, chapters show how sustainable pathways can be fostered by a wide range of multiscale grassroots initiatives (farms, gardens, buildings, urban green areas …) embedded in transitioning trends of sustainable development.
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DAUME (Durabilité des agricultures urbaines en Méditerranée) is a research project funded by the French National Research Agency (ANR-2010-STRA-007). It brought together urban and agricultural scholars from France (Montpellier), Algeria (Constantine), Italy (Pisa), Morocco (Meknès) and Portugal (Lisbon).
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AESOP (Association of European Schools of Planning), Sustainable Food Planning group: https://aesopsfp.wordpress.com/
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Food for the Cities Initiative: http://www.fao.org/fcit/fcit-home/fr/
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RUAF: http://www.ruaf.org/
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The authors acknowledge the co-editors of the “Urban Agriculture” series and the reviewers who help to improve the scientific quality of the book. The results of some chapters originate from the DAUME research project funded by the French National Research Agency through the n° ANR-2010-STRA-007-01. Some others chapters originate from presentations at the 5th annual Conference of the Sustainable Food Planning group of AESOP, heled in Montpellier (France) in October 2013.
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Soulard, CT., Perrin, C., Valette, E. (2017). Relations Between Agriculture and the City in Europe and the Mediterranean. In: Soulard, CT., Perrin, C., Valette, E. (eds) Toward Sustainable Relations Between Agriculture and the City. Urban Agriculture. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-71037-2_1
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