EAPSI: A Political Geographic Analysis of Greenbelt Agriculture for Resilience and Sustainable Development in Seoul

随着气候变化对政治和经济安全的威胁增加，城市农业已成为许多地方和国家决策者抵御战略的重要组成部分。韩国首尔市政府承诺通过扩大城市农业来增强对气候变化的抵御能力，他们预计这将提供新的社会、经济和环境便利设施。这项研究是对首尔绿化带的政治地理分析，该绿化带是城市土地用于农业和可持续发展的政策冲突场所。该项目调查了公民对最近重组城市农业以实现可持续发展的政府政策的参与情况，以及对居民、商业农民和城市发展的影响。这项研究是与梨花大学著名社会科学家、城市复兴、可持续发展和公民问题专家 Youngmin Lee 博士合作进行的。该研究采用了对政府城市农业政策的分析、对相关政府官员的正式访谈以及对绿地城市农民的对话式访谈和参与观察。该项目将解决政策制定者在考虑可持续城市增长提案的政治背景下对经验数据的需求，在这种政治背景下，国家努力在广泛的异议中建立合法性。对首尔城市可持续发展问题上国家与社会之间关系的评估将为美国和国外的气候变化城市规划提供信息。首尔的绿化带是朴正熙政府国家发展规划的遗产。最初，绿化带充当了战略缓冲区，抵御朝鲜潜在的军事入侵以及该国快速工业化对城市空气质量的不利影响。在民主化和市场自由化的过程中，绿化带一直是土地使用政策争论的场所，被批评为过于专制或新自由主义。作为首尔城市农业计划的杰出激活地，绿化带提供了宝贵的机会来研究地缘政治、经济和环境安全的相互关系，以及评估政治和经济自由化背景下的公民参与问题。作为国家、社会和环境之间界面的民族志，该研究满足了在新的国家优先事项遭到怀疑和忧虑的背景下促进可持续增长的经验数据的需求。 该奖项隶属东亚和太平洋地区暑期学院项目，支持美国研究生的暑期研究，由美国国家科学基金会和韩国国家研究基金会联合资助。

As the threat of climate change to political and economic security increases, urban agriculture has become an important component of resilience strategy for many local and national policy makers. The Seoul Metropolitan Government in Korea promises to build resilience to climate change through the expansion of urban farming, which they anticipate will provide new social, economic, and environmental amenities. The research is a political geographic analysis of Seoul's greenbelt as a site of policy conflict over urban land use for agriculture and sustainable development. The project investigates both civic engagement with recent government policies that reorganize urban farming for sustainability, as well as the implications for residents, commercial farmers, and urban development. This research is a collaboration with Dr. Youngmin Lee, a noted social scientist and expert on issues of urban revitalization, sustainable development, and citizenship at Ewha University. The study employs analysis of government urban farming policies, formal interviews with relevant government officials, and conversational interviews and participant observation with greenbelt urban farmers. The project will address the need for empirical data among policymakers considering sustainable urban growth proposals in a political context where the state endeavors to build legitimacy amid widespread dissent. Evaluations of the interface between state and society over issues of urban sustainability in Seoul will inform urban planning for climate change in the United States and abroad. Seoul?s greenbelt is a legacy of developmental state planning under the government of Park Chung-hee. Initially, the greenbelt served as a strategic buffer against potential North Korean military incursions and the detrimental effects of the nation?s rapid industrialization on urban air quality. Amidst democratization and market liberalization, the greenbelt has endured as a site of contestation between land use policies criticized as either overly authoritarian or neoliberal. As the preeminent activation site for Seoul?s urban farming initiatives, the greenbelt offers an invaluable opportunity to examine the interrelatedness of geopolitical, economic, and environmental security, as well as to assess issues of citizen participation in the context of political and economic liberalization. As an ethnography of the interface between the state, society, and environment, the research responds to the need for empirical data on facilitating sustainable growth in a context where new state priorities encounter skepticism and apprehension. This award under the East Asia and Pacific Summer Institutes program supports summer research by a U.S. graduate student and is jointly funded by NSF and the National Research Foundation of Korea.