| 研究実績の概要 |
Examining the potential of edible landscape for socio-ecological restoration of vacant land in shrinking cities, this project investigated ways to unlock benefits for human health, sustainability and other species. Due to the COVID pandemic, focus was partly shifted from fieldwork to conceptual research.
Final year accomplishments: 1) completion of plant database for socio-ecological restoration, 2) completion of multilingual systematic review of edible landscape literature & publication as preprint, 3) publication of landmark paper on sustainable post-growth food systes principles in Nature Sustainability, 4) application of project results in newly launched Ehime University multispecies campus project.
Overall, this project produced major insights and achievements: 1) Currently, nutrition data availability and access to cultural knowledge & seeds/seedlings are major barriers for implementing socio-ecological restoration with local indigenous plants. Vacant land is available, but land governance remains a barrier. Major progress on enabling infrastructure (research & outreach) should be prioritized. 2) Nevertheless, our plant database and several multispecies edible landscape based design proposals provide starting points to initiate restoration work. 3) Theoretical and conceptal work on multispecies sustainability, multispecies edible landscape, and sustainable post-growth food system principles resulting from this project provide a fertile basis for urban sustainability transformations. In light of future pandemics, the importance of this research has only increased.
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