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，都市型农业已成为许多地方和国家政策制定者弹性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建立对气候变化的适应能力，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地的政治地理分析，因为在城市土地用于农业和可持续发展的问题上，首尔绿地存在政策冲突。该项目调查了公民参与最近政府为可持续发展而重组城市农业的政策，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、城市振兴、可持续发展和公民身份问题专家李永民博士合作进行的。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、与城市绿地农民的对话访谈和参与式观察。该项目将解决政策制定者对经验数据的需求，这些政策制定者在考虑可持续城市增长提案的政治背景下，在广泛的异议中努力建立合法性。对首尔城市可持续性问题上国家和社会之间的接口进行评估，将为美国和国外应对气候变化的城市规划提供参考。首尔？S绿地是朴正熙政府时期国家发展规划的遗产。最初，绿地是一个战略缓冲区，可以抵御朝鲜潜在的军事入侵和国家-S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，绿地一直是被批评为过于威权或新自由主义的土地使用政策之间的争执场所。作为首尔-S都市农业倡议的主要激活地点，绿地提供了一个宝贵的机会来研究地缘政治、经济和环境安全的相互关联，以及评估政治和经济自由化背景下的公民参与问题。作为对国家、社会和环境之间界面的民族志，这项研究回应了在新的国家优先事项遭到怀疑和担忧的背景下，促进可持续增长的实证数据的需求。该奖项由东亚和太平洋暑期学院项目资助一名美国研究生的暑期研究，由NSF和韩国国家研究基金会共同资助。

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.