Isabelle Anguelovski
Director at Barcelona Lab for Urban Environmental Justice and Sustainability
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I am a social scientist trained in urban and environmental planning (PhD, MIT, 2011). My research is situated at the intersection of urban planning and policy, social inequality, and development studies. At the ICTA-UAB, I am the coordinator of the research line "Cities and Environmental Justice," and over the next five years (June 2016- May 2021), am coordinating the ERC funded project GREENLULUS. I will also be co-directing the Barcelona Lab for Urban Environmental Justice and Sustainability (www.bcnuej.org), a groundbreaking research laboratory carrying comparative and interdisciplinary research, developing new teaching methods and courses, and promoting learning on justice and inclusion for planning sustainable, green, and healthy cities. The lab is affiliated with the IMIM research institute in Barcelona.
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Climate and health is an emerging and important field. Here we comment on why a stronger focus on justice must be integrated in this field – we…
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Director
Barcelona Lab for Urban Environmental Justice and Sustainability
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UAB - Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
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Educación
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MIT
Urban Studies and Planning Environmental Justice, Community Development, Sustainability Studies
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Harvard University
Graduate Certificate Non-Profit/Public/Organizational Management
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Experiencia de voluntariado
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When the perception and development of Urban Rooftop Farming depend on how Urban Agriculture is defined: Examining diverging stakeholders' experiences and views in Barcelona, Spain
In book: Finding spaces for productive cities. Proceedings of the 6th AESOP Sustainable Food Planning conference., Chapter: 3.7, Publisher: VHL University of Applied Sciences, Editors: Rob Roggema, Greg Keffee, pp.490-503
Urban Agriculture (UA) is growing in popularity in the Global North and UA practices has also
colonized buildings through Urban Rooftop Farming (URF), which aims to take advantage of
unused spaces in current cities. Rooftop farms and greenhouses are spreading as local community
or private (i.e., companies) projects, particularly in North America. However, URF usually requires
higher resources than soil-based UA and perceptions around these systems are divergent. In this
context…Urban Agriculture (UA) is growing in popularity in the Global North and UA practices has also
colonized buildings through Urban Rooftop Farming (URF), which aims to take advantage of
unused spaces in current cities. Rooftop farms and greenhouses are spreading as local community
or private (i.e., companies) projects, particularly in North America. However, URF usually requires
higher resources than soil-based UA and perceptions around these systems are divergent. In this
context, the current paper explores how stakeholders perceived URF in Barcelona. Special
attention is paid in the conceptualization of UA, the drivers for promoting both UA and URF, and
their position in supporting URF. Results show that stakeholders conceptualize UA in three
different ways and that the different conceptualizations determine the way URF is perceived and
supported. First, periurban stakeholders identify UA as an “unreal” agriculture, since UA is not
performed by professionals and does not take place on agricultural soil. These stakeholders are
thus against both UA and URF. Second, some stakeholders (i.e., urban gardeners, local
administration, environmental NGOs, coops users) can identify UA as agriculture but only for
social purposes. These actors support UA but are against URF as the low potential for food
production does not balance the required extra resources. Last, new stakeholders involved in URF (i.e., regional administration, architects, urban gardeners) did find food production as the main
driver for developing UA activities. Therefore, future policies meant to further develop UA in
Barcelona and reduce development barriers for URF might need to not only establish a clear
common definition of UA for the City of Barcelona, but also to enhance the aim of food production
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