[Foodplanning] Call for Presentations - Agriculture at the Metropolitan Edge Symposium

[Sibella Kraus]

Please post the following announcement and attachment. 

 

 

 

Agriculture at the Metropolitan Edge: New Ruralism and other Strategies for
Sustainable Development 

April 5-6, 2007                    University of California, Berkeley
Global Metropolitan Studies

Request for Presentations                                               Due
December 1, 2006

 

The New Ruralism Symposium, a project of the Agriculture at the Metropolitan
Edge Program (AME), will bring together researchers, practitioners,
producers and policy makers involved in bridging sustainable agriculture and
smart growth.  The symposium will explore systems-based and place-based
issues affecting the urban-rural interface. 

 

We are inviting proposals for presentations, papers, and sessions that
relate to the four themes below. Suggested topics follow each theme. We
encourage proposals about best practices and innovative projects. 

 

*     Urban Edge Land Use Policy and Economics

- role of regulations and incentives, value of interfacing with green-space,
approaches to planning agricultural edges

*     Environmental Services and Impacts of Urban Edge Agriculture

- appropriate technology, energetics, quantifying ecological services, water
rights and reuse

*     Vitality of Rural Communities in Metropolitan-influenced Areas

- social mobilization issues, slow cities movement, socio-economics of
agriculture on the edge

*     Emerging Urban-Rural Compact

- local food systems, Role of culture and tradition, intersection with
public health

 

Abstracts of contributed papers, presentations, and panel discussions are
due December 1, 2006.  Late papers will be considered only on a
space-available basis.  Notification about acceptance of proposals will be
made by January 10, 2007. All abstracts should be 250 words or fewer

 

To view the Call for Presentations form, please see the attached file. For
more information about the AME program, the symposium, or the proposal
process, please contact: 


Sibella Kraus, AME Director (sibellakraus at berkeley.edu) or Alethea Marie
Harper, Graduate Student Researcher for AME (alethea_marie at berkeley.edu).

 

Agriculture at the Metropolitan Edge Program

Center for Global Metropolitan Studies

316 Wurster Hall #1870

University of California

Berkeley, CA 94720-1870

 

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