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日益增加，城市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。韩国首尔市承诺通过扩大城市农业来增强对气候变化的适应能力，他们预计这将带来新的社会、经济和环境便利。该研究是对首尔绿地作为城市农业用地和可持续发展的政策冲突场所进行的政治地理分析。该项目调查了最近政府政策的公民参与，这些政策旨在重新组织城市农业以实现可持续发展，以及对居民、商业农民和城市发展的影响。此次研究是与梨花大学的城市振兴、可持续发展、市民问题专家、社会学家李永民博士共同进行的。本研究采用政府城市农业政策分析、对相关政府官员的正式访谈、对城市绿化带农民的对话访谈和参与式观察。该项目将解决政策制定者在考虑可持续城市增长建议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。对首尔城市可持续性问题的国家和社会之间的相互作用的评估，将为美国和其他国家的气候变化城市规划提供参考。首尔吗?韩国的绿地是朴正熙政府时期国家发展规划的遗产。最初，这片绿地是作为一个战略缓冲区，抵御朝鲜可能的军事入侵和韩国的不利影响。城市空气质量的快速工业化。在民主化和市场自由化的背景下，绿化带一直是土地使用政策之间争论的场所，这些政策被批评为过度威权主义或新自由主义。作为首尔的最佳活化地点？作为城市农业倡议的一部分，绿化带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系，以及在政治和经济自由化的背景下评估公民参与的问题。作为国家、社会和环境之间界面的民族志，该研究回应了在新的国家优先事项遭遇怀疑和担忧的背景下促进可持续增长的经验数据需求。该奖项是由美国国家科学基金会（NSF）和韩国国立科学研究财团共同资助的东亚太平洋暑期研究所项目，旨在支持美国研究生的暑期研究。

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.