Urban Agroecology

Monika Egerer is a tenure-track professor in Urban Productive Ecosystems in the School of Life Sciences at the Technical University of Munich. Her research investigates relationships between biodiversity conservation, ecosystem service provision, and human wellbeing in urban agroecosystems. Her work aims to bridge theory and practice to create productive systems in cities that offer food, habitat and community.Hamutahl Cohen is a postdoctoral researcher in Entomology at the University of California, Riverside. Her research investigates drivers of insect declines in changing urban landscapes and the subsequent impacts to ecosystem services in farms and gardens. She leverages natural ecology and molecular and microbial methodologies to address questions of applied significance for promoting food security.

• The Role of Agroecology in Cities.1. An expanded scope of biodiversity in urban agriculture, with implications for conservation 2. Complex ecological interactions and ecosystem services in urban agroecosystems 3. Climate factors and climate change in urban agroecosystems 4. Restoring soil and supporting food sovereignty in an urbanizing world: An interdisciplinary perspective 5. Urban foraging: Where cultural knowledge and local biodiversity meet 6. Agroecology as Public Health: The island example of Tasmania 7. From individual seeds to collective harvests: urban agroecology as political action 8. Surveying the landscape of urban agriculture’s land politics: Civic, ecological, heritage-based, justice-driven, and market-oriented fields 9. Co-producing agro-food policies for urban environments: towards agroecology-oriented local food systems 10. Holistic pedagogies for social change: reflections from an urban agroecology farmer training 11. Growing Together: Participatory Approaches in Urban Agriculture Extension 12. How to study the ecology of food in the city: an overview of natural science methodologies 13. Navigating Urban Agroecological Research with the Social Sciences 14. Agroecological transformations in urban contexts: transdisciplinary research frameworks and participatory approaches in Burlington, Vermont 15. Multidimensional challenges in urban agricultural research.Future Directions in Urban Agroecology

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