كتاب إلكتروني
Urban Expansion and Food Security in New Zealand : The Collapse of Local Horticulture
| العنوان: | Urban Expansion and Food Security in New Zealand : The Collapse of Local Horticulture |
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| الوصف: | This book examines suburban development in New Zealand and its conflict with and impact on local horticulture and food security. Drawing on an ethnographic study of Auckland's rapidly expanding urban periphery, combined with comparative case studies from California in the USA and Victoria in Australia, the book examines how the profit-making strategies of property developers and landowners drastically reshapes work and life at the edge of cities. With a significant portion of the world's croplands lying adjacent to cities, the accelerating pace of urban sprawl across the planet places unprecedented pressure on the productivity and even existence of these vital food bowl regions. The book examines how the demand for more land for development at the urban periphery collides with concerns over local food security and the protection of ecosystem services. It analyses land use policy, historical records, and physical patterns of development, alongside participant observation of local events. It combines this with interviews with government officials, property developers, landowners, local residents and horticulturists. By combining these narratives of the hectic and lucrative business of suburban property development with the collapse of local horticulture, this book shows how the realignment of the New Zealand's interests of financial profitability over other concerns led to the transformation of urban peripheries from a productive food bowl to an investment vehicle. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of urban food and agriculture, urban planning and development and rural-urban studies. |
| المؤلفون: | Benjamin Felix Richardson |
| نوع المادة: | eBook. |
| الموضوعات: | Land use, Urban--New Zealand, Urban ecology (Sociology)--New Zealand, Food security--New Zealand, Rural-urban relations--New Zealand |
| تصنيفات: | NATURE / Ecology, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / City Planning & Urban Development, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Horticulture, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Agriculture & Food, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Agriculture & Food Policy |
| قاعدة البيانات: | eBook Index |
| ردمك: | 9781032504223 9781032509334 9781000927481 9781000927559 9781003400325 |
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