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恢复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、经济和环境设施。这项研究是一个政治地理分析的首尔的绿地作为一个网站的政策冲突的城市土地利用农业和可持续发展。该项目调查了公民参与最近的政府政策，重组城市农业的可持续性，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的社会科学家和城市振兴，可持续发展和公民问题专家Youngmin Lee博士合作进行的。本研究采用政府都市农业政策分析、相关政府官员正式访谈、绿地都市农民对话式访谈及参与式观察。该项目将解决政策制定者在考虑可持续城市增长建议时对经验数据的需求，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上国家与社会之间的界面进行评估，将为美国和国外的气候变化城市规划提供信息。首尔？韩国的绿地是朴正熙政府时期国家发展规划的遗产。最初，绿地是作为一个战略缓冲区，防止朝鲜潜在的军事入侵和国家的有害影响？工业化对城市空气质量的影响。在民主化和市场自由化的过程中，绿地作为土地使用政策之间的一个中转站，被批评为过于专制或新自由主义。作为首尔的最佳激活地？绿地作为城市农业的一项倡议，为研究地缘政治、经济和环境安全的相互关联性以及评估政治和经济自由化背景下公民参与的问题提供了一个宝贵的机会。作为国家，社会和环境之间的接口民族志，研究响应的需要，促进可持续增长的背景下，新的国家优先事项遇到怀疑和忧虑的经验数据。 东亚和太平洋夏季研究所计划下的这个奖项支持美国研究生的夏季研究，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.