John Patrick Connors Publishes Book Chapter on Urban Agriculture

John Patrick Connors, a post-doctoral associate at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, recently wrote a chapter in The Routledge Handbook of Urbanization and Global Environmental Change (2016, Routledge). The book, edited by Karen C. Seto, William D. Solecki, Corrie A. Griffith, provides an overview of how urbanization influences global environmental change, and how global environmental change, in turn, influences urbanization processes.

Connors’ chapter explores the opportunities for urban and peri-urban agriculture as a strategy for enhancing livelihoods while facilitating climate adaptation in cities in developing countries. Urban and peri-urban agriculture are already prevalent around the world, but mainstreaming such practices in development and policy strategies faces both institutional and practical health challenges. The chapter argues that urban and peri-urban agriculture may provide multiple social and environmental benefits, supporting climate resilience in rapidly growing cities around the world, but further efforts are needed to address risks and to increase the acceptability of urban agriculture.

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