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Exploring the potential of edible landscapes for socio-ecological restoration of vacant land in shrinking Japanese cities

Research Project

Project/Area Number 20K15552
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Early-Career Scientists

Allocation TypeMulti-year Fund
Review Section Basic Section 39070:Landscape science-related
Research InstitutionEhime University (2021-2022)
Research Institute for Humanity and Nature (2020)

Principal Investigator

Rupprecht Christoph  愛媛大学, 社会共創学部, 准教授 (90783895)

Project Period (FY) 2020-04-01 – 2023-03-31
Project Status Completed (Fiscal Year 2022)
Budget Amount *help
¥4,160,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,200,000、Indirect Cost: ¥960,000)
Fiscal Year 2022: ¥1,430,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥330,000)
Fiscal Year 2021: ¥1,300,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥300,000)
Fiscal Year 2020: ¥1,430,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥330,000)
Keywordsマルチスピーシーズ / ランドスケープ / エディブル / landscape stewardship / restoration / 空地 / 都市計画 / 緑地計画 / multispecies / edible landscape / multispecies campus / degrowth / post-growth / sustainability / vacant land / nectar plants / fruit trees / multispecies commons / urban planning / public health
Outline of Research at the Start

Most Japanese cities will shrink until 2045. This research examines how the resulting vacant land can be used for creating edible landscapes (multispecies commons) that provide social and ecological benefits for people and nature. For example, fruit and nut trees can provide residents with better nutrition, while generating ecosystem services (e.g. better air quality) and serving as habitat for pollinators such as the Japanese honey bee. This helps to develop a sustainable, convivial landscape stewarship approach to urban planning for increasing more-than-human wellbeing by degrowing cities.

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This project produced six major achievements: 1) A multilingual, systematic review of the scientific literature identifying a consensus about the large potential of edible landscapes for socio-ecological restorations of vacant lots, but a lack of empirical evidence. 2) A new, multispecies definition of edible landscapes as a basis for future research. 3) Contributed to identifying principles of sustainable post-growth food systems globally, which can in turn inform edible landscape stewardship. 4) Identified key barriers to restoration through edible landscapes in Japan, namely lacking information and institutional support, lacking infrastructure and data for non-mainstream plants and heirloom varieties, and loss of cultural knowledge as a result of colonial history (including lack of support today). 5) Plant inventory and design prototypes for multispecies edible landscaping for bottom-up initiatives. 6) Trial implementation in the Ehime University Multispecies Campus initiative.

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

本研究は今後縮小する都市に関して、急増する空地の利用で社会生態的再生を実現する方法として期待されているエディブル・ランドスケープ(食べられる景観)の概念の可能性を検討した。学術的意義として、概念文献の整理や新たな定義を提供することで理論化に貢献し、ポスト成長期における持続可能な食農システムの理解を深めることができた。社会的意義として、日本におけるエディブル・ランドスケープ実現の障壁として解決すべき課題を明確にし、空地利用に困る住民が自分でより豊かな暮らしやコミュニティを実現できるために、手法としてのエディブル・ランドスケープを使えるように植物目録やデザインコンセプトを提供できた。

Report

(4 results)
  • 2022 Annual Research Report   Final Research Report ( PDF )
  • 2021 Research-status Report
  • 2020 Research-status Report
  • Research Products

    (25 results)

All 2023 2022 2021 2020 Other

All Journal Article (9 results) (of which Int'l Joint Research: 8 results,  Peer Reviewed: 8 results,  Open Access: 8 results) Presentation (13 results) (of which Int'l Joint Research: 7 results,  Invited: 7 results) Book (2 results) Remarks (1 results)

  • [Journal Article] Defining edible landscapes: a multilingual systematic review2023

    • Author(s)
      Rupprecht Christoph David Dietfried、Gaertner Nadine、Cui Lihua、Sardeshpande Mallika、McGreevy Steven R.、Spiegelberg Maximilian
    • Journal Title

      SocArXiv

      Volume: -

    • DOI

      10.31235/osf.io/64uvj

    • Related Report
      2022 Annual Research Report
    • Open Access / Int'l Joint Research
  • [Journal Article] Sustainable agrifood systems for a post-growth world2022

    • Author(s)
      McGreevy Steven R.、Rupprecht Christoph D. D.、Niles Daniel、Wiek Arnim、et al.
    • Journal Title

      Nature Sustainability

      Volume: 5 Issue: 12 Pages: 1011-1017

    • DOI

      10.1038/s41893-022-00933-5

    • Related Report
      2022 Annual Research Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Open Access / Int'l Joint Research
  • [Journal Article] Learning, playing, and experimenting with critical food futures2022

    • Author(s)
      Steven R. McGreevy, Christoph DD Rupprecht, Norie Tamura, Kazuhiko Ota, Mai Kobayashi, Maximilian Spiegelberg
    • Journal Title

      Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems

      Volume: 6 Pages: 909259-909259

    • DOI

      10.3389/fsufs.2022.909259

    • Related Report
      2022 Annual Research Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Open Access / Int'l Joint Research
  • [Journal Article] From locked-down to locked-in? COVID-induced social practice change across four consumption domains2022

    • Author(s)
      Simona Zollet, Julia Siedle, Miriam Bodenheimer, Steven R McGreevy, Caroline Boules, Clemens Brauer, Md Habibur Rahman, Christoph DD Rupprecht, Johannes Schuler
    • Journal Title

      Sustainability: Science, Practice, and Policy

      Volume: 18, 1 Issue: 1 Pages: 796-821

    • DOI

      10.1080/15487733.2022.2127294

    • Related Report
      2022 Annual Research Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Open Access / Int'l Joint Research
  • [Journal Article] Public Perceptions of Green Roofs and Green Walls in Tokyo, Japan: A Call to Heighten Awareness2022

    • Author(s)
      Jim C. Y.、Hui Ling Chui、Rupprecht Christoph D. D.
    • Journal Title

      Environmental Management

      Volume: - Issue: 1 Pages: 35-53

    • DOI

      10.1007/s00267-022-01625-8

    • Related Report
      2021 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Int'l Joint Research
  • [Journal Article] Edible urban commons for resilient neighbourhoods in light of the pandemic2021

    • Author(s)
      Sardeshpande Mallika、Rupprecht Christoph、Russo Alessio
    • Journal Title

      Cities

      Volume: 109 Pages: 103031-103031

    • DOI

      10.1016/j.cities.2020.103031

    • Related Report
      2020 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Open Access / Int'l Joint Research
  • [Journal Article] Decentralization & local food: Japan's regional Ecological Footprints indicate localized sustainability strategies2021

    • Author(s)
      Tsuchiya Kazuaki、Iha Katsunori、Murthy Adeline、Lin David、Altiok Selen、Rupprecht Christoph D.D.、Kiyono Hisako、McGreevy Steven R.
    • Journal Title

      Journal of Cleaner Production

      Volume: 292 Pages: 126043-126043

    • DOI

      10.1016/j.jclepro.2021.126043

    • Related Report
      2020 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Open Access / Int'l Joint Research
  • [Journal Article] Multispecies sustainability2020

    • Author(s)
      Rupprecht Christoph D. D.、Vervoort Joost、et.al
    • Journal Title

      Global Sustainability

      Volume: 3

    • DOI

      10.1017/sus.2020.28

    • Related Report
      2020 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Open Access / Int'l Joint Research
  • [Journal Article] Edible green infrastructure or edible landscapes? A case for co-stewardship in multispecies commons2020

    • Author(s)
      Rupprecht Christoph D. D.
    • Journal Title

      Proceedings of the 4th APSAFE Symposium

      Volume: - Pages: 79-85

    • Related Report
      2020 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Open Access
  • [Presentation] A multilingual systematic review of edible landscapes2023

    • Author(s)
      Cui Lihua、Rupprecht Christoph、Gaertner Nadine、Sardeshpande Mallika、McGreevy Steven、Spiegelberg Maximilian
    • Organizer
      American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting
    • Related Report
      2022 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Conceptualizing and definition multispecies edible landscapes2023

    • Author(s)
      Rupprecht Christoph、Cui Lihua、Gaertner Nadine、Sardeshpande Mallika、McGreevy Steven、Spiegelberg Maximilian
    • Organizer
      American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting
    • Related Report
      2022 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Rewilding & sustainability: informal greenspaces as sites of change?2023

    • Author(s)
      Rupprecht Christoph
    • Organizer
      Urban Rewilding International Design Workshop
    • Related Report
      2022 Annual Research Report
    • Invited
  • [Presentation] Multispecies sustainability: concept and future directions2023

    • Author(s)
      Rupprecht Christoph
    • Organizer
      Biodiverse Anthropocene programme seminar, University of Oulu
    • Related Report
      2022 Annual Research Report
    • Invited
  • [Presentation] Learning about, playing with, and experimenting in critical food futures using soft scenarios-- directions for food policy and planning2022

    • Author(s)
      McGreevy Steven、Rupprecht Christoph、Tamura Norie、Ota Kazuhiko、Kobayashi Mai、Spiegelberg Maximilian
    • Organizer
      10th Annual Conference of the AESOP, Sustainable Food Planning Group
    • Related Report
      2022 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Multispecies Sustainability2022

    • Author(s)
      Rupprecht Christoph
    • Organizer
      Sustainability Science Days Conference
    • Related Report
      2022 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research / Invited
  • [Presentation] エディブル・ランドスケープで真の持続可能な都市を考える2022

    • Author(s)
      Rupprecht CDD
    • Organizer
      第45回都市計画セミナー
    • Related Report
      2021 Research-status Report
    • Invited
  • [Presentation] More-than-human gardening for multispecies sustainability2022

    • Author(s)
      Rupprecht CDD
    • Organizer
      第16回地球研国際シンポジウム:自然と暮らす術
    • Related Report
      2021 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research / Invited
  • [Presentation] 人新世こそ役に立つ「人間の枠を超えた地理学」: 都市緑地から持続可能性の再定義までの道2021

    • Author(s)
      Rupprecht CDD
    • Organizer
      令和3(2021)年愛媛地理学会講演会
    • Related Report
      2021 Research-status Report
    • Invited
  • [Presentation] Degrowing Japan through food- lifestyles, lunches, and local policy2021

    • Author(s)
      McGreevy SR, Rupprecht CDD
    • Organizer
      Is Rural Japan Sustainable? Symposium
    • Related Report
      2021 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Imagining Japan's sustainable futures through food and urban planning2021

    • Author(s)
      Rupprecht CDD
    • Organizer
      Lecture Series Japan-Center Department of Asian Studies LMU Munich
    • Related Report
      2021 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research / Invited
  • [Presentation] 「蜜蜂飼育届」書式の現状と、ミツバチおよび野生送粉者保護への展望2021

    • Author(s)
      真貝 理香, 田村 典江, スピーゲルバーグ マキシミリアン, ルプレヒト クリストフ
    • Organizer
      「野生生物と社会」学会
    • Related Report
      2021 Research-status Report
  • [Presentation] Multispecies Community Garden:縮小都市の豊かな暮らしに向けて、人間の枠を超えた共生のデザインコンセプト提案2020

    • Author(s)
      Rupprecht Christoph D. D.、Yoshida Aoi、Cui Lihua
    • Organizer
      日本造園学会全国大会
    • Related Report
      2020 Research-status Report
  • [Book] Almanac for the Anthropocene: A Compendium of Solarpunk Futures(分担執筆)2022

    • Author(s)
      Rupprecht Christoph、Yoshida Aoi、Cui Lihua
    • Total Pages
      214
    • Publisher
      West Virginia University Press
    • Related Report
      2022 Annual Research Report
  • [Book] みんなでつくる「いただきます」2021

    • Author(s)
      田村典江、クリストフ・D・D・ルプレヒト、スティーブン・R・マックグリービー
    • Total Pages
      204
    • Publisher
      昭和堂
    • ISBN
      9784812220290
    • Related Report
      2020 Research-status Report
  • [Remarks] Multispecies Sustainability Laboratory

    • URL

      https://multispecies.city

    • Related Report
      2022 Annual Research Report

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Published: 2020-04-28   Modified: 2024-01-30  

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