Towards an Impact Evaluation Framework to Measure Urban Resilience in Food Practices

Catherine Dezio and Davide Marino
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Catherine Dezio: Dipartimento di Architettura e Studi Urbani, Politecnico di Milano, 20133 Milano, Italy
Davide Marino: Dipartimento di Bioscienze e Territorio, Università del Molise, 86039 Termoli, Italy

Sustainability, 2018, vol. 10, issue 6, 1-13

Abstract: The relationship among agriculture, food and cities is experiencing profound transformations that led us to reflect on causes and processes. Our research questions regarded the role of agriculture and food in territorial resilience, the relationship between global problems and local solutions (i.e., urban scale), the relationship between the action scales and the results of a practice, and the means to measure the effectiveness of a practice. The following paper adopts the coevolutive approach, which recognizes territorial dynamics as products of biunivocal relations between social and environmental components. We also outline an impact evaluation framework for assessing territorial resilience of urban food systems. The paper includes an analysis conducted on 50 local practices regarding the relationship between food and city. This analysis was collected within the Observatory of Resilience Practices, a project funded by the Cariplo Foundation and conducted by the Polytechnic University of Milan. The paper concludes by suggesting implementation of the methodology for assessing the impact of practices, and includes broader reasoning regarding the role of local bottom-up practices in territorial governance.

Keywords: resilience; urban food systems; agriculture; food practices (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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