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Urban Expansion and Food Security in New Zealand: The Collapse of Local Horticulture

Urban Expansion and Food Security in New Zealand: The Collapse of Local Horticulture

Richardson, Benjamin Felix

Paperback

Series: Routledge Studies in Food, Society and the Environment

Botany & HorticultureEnvironmental StudiesUnited States Politics

ISBN10: 1032509333
ISBN13: 9781032509334
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Dec 18 2024
Pages: 224
Weight: 0.75
Height: 0.50 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

This book examines suburban development in New Zealand and its conflict with and impact on local horticulture and food security.

Drawing on an ethnographic study of Auckland's rapidly expanding urban periphery, combined with comparative case studies from California in the USA and Victoria in Australia, the book examines how the profit-making strategies of property developers and landowners drastically reshapes work and life at the edge of cities. With a significant portion of the world's croplands lying adjacent to cities, the accelerating pace of urban sprawl across the planet places unprecedented pressure on the productivity and even existence of these vital food bowl regions. The book examines how the demand for more land for development at the urban periphery collides with concerns over local food security and the protection of ecosystem services. It analyses land use policy, historical records, and physical patterns of development, alongside participant observation of local events. It combines this with interviews with government officials, property developers, landowners, local residents and horticulturists. By combining these narratives of the hectic and lucrative business of suburban property development with the collapse of local horticulture, this book shows how the realignment of the New Zealand's interests of financial profitability over other concerns led to the transformation of urban peripheries from a productive food bowl to an investment vehicle.

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