1. 1.3.0
CCRI | Reed
City Region
Report Overview
Dr Matt Reed
On behalf of the CCRI team
Vigo June 2013
#supurb
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2. 1.3.0
Outline
•aims of wp2
•diversity & shopping
•multi-functional land
use
•nutrient recyling
•shortening food chains
•activists
•opportunities &
blockages
•accelerators
Graffiti by Banksy - Bristol City Centre
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3. aims of wp2
• Systematic review of 3 main areas of
supurbfood in each city region
• Focus on understanding the dynamics of
governance
• interviews, documentary review, social
media analysis and stakeholder workshops
• Blockages, opportunities, priorities and best
practice
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4. diversity
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5. DUBLIN
UNITED
KINGDOM
LONDON
PORTUGAL
LISBON
SPAIN
MADRID
FRANCE
PARIS
ROME
ITALY
BELGIUMBRUSSELS
NETHERLAND
AMSTERDAM
BERLIN
DENMARK
COPENHAGEN
NORWAY
OSLO
SWEDEN
STOCKHOLM
FINLAND
HELSINKI
ESTONIATALLINN
RUSSIA
MOSCOW
RIGA LATVIA
VILNIUSLITHUANIA
RUSSI
POLAND
WARSAW
BELARUS
MINSK
UKRAINE
KIEV
MOLDOVA
CHISINAU
BUCHAREST
ROMANIA
SWITZERLAN
BERN
AUSTRI
VIENNA
SLOVAKIA
BRATISLAV
PRAGUE
BUDAPEST
ANKARA
TURKEY
BULGARI
SOFIA
ATHENS
GREECE
ALBANIA
TIRANA
SARAJEVO
ZAGREB
SERBIA
BELGRADE
MACEDONI
SKOPJE
KOSOVO
PRISTINA
YERE
GEORGIA
ARMEN
TBILISI
The SUPURB City Regions
Bristol
Ghent
Riga
Rome
Rotterdam
Vigo
Zurich
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6. diversity of europe
• geographic - landscapes, climates -
• governance styles and histories -
• very local specifics hard to ignore
• importance of agriculture -
• shopping habits -
• global flows - influential
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7. shopping
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8. common themes
• importance of the multiple
retailers
• consumption seen as a
meaningful civic action
• importance of food only
partially recognized in policy
Fresh!
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9. multi-funtional
land use
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10. • availability of land?
• integration of commercial farming
• complexity of regulations
• development pressures
• food as a theme hard to integrate
common themes
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11. nutrient recycling
7%
8%
26
28
76
91
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12. common themes
• technocratic approach
• energy capture + composting
• regulated markets
• technological solutions
• little participation
• based on continued wastefulness?
• catalytic role of the EU directive
7%
8%
26
28
76
91
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13. shortening food chains
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14. common themes
• lack of co-ordination - producers/
consumers
• example canteens for elderly & children
• agreed definition of sustainability
• imagination and energy
• importance of the ‘local’ (local = good)
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15. Activists
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16. activists
• voluntary engagement
• sustainability focus - (social, environmental
and local economic)
• development of local knowledge
• innovative organisations and forms of
engagement
• common social status and background
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17. opportunities,
blockages
UNITED
KINGDOM
LISBON
SPAIN ROME
ITALY
BELGIUM
NETHERLANDS
LATVIA
SWITZERLAND
ATHENS
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18. common opportunities
• CSA’s and box schemes
• direct sales by professional farmers
• social, care and therapeutic farms
(horticulture)
• buying groups by consumers
• self-provisioning by households - response
to the economic crisis + tradition
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19. complex government
• layers - local, national, regional, EU
• EU - procurement directives
• national-regional-local - spatial planning
• local administration of rules - flexible?
• lack of party political salience
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20. ‘quick’ wins
• all allotments organic
• temporary growing on brownfield sites
• vegetarian days in canteens
• the edible city
• city report on food supply
• the corner shop
• local and/organic in public kitchens
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21. shared absences
• integration of migrants and ethnic
minorities
• evidence based arguments for regional food
• changing capabilities of the state
• impacts of globalization
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22. accelerators
• no step changes identified
• speed of change necessary?
• EU waste directive vs EU
procurement regulations
• elite discussions not linked
to city region level
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24. 1.3.0
CCRI | Reed
www.supurb.eu
www.ccri.ac.uk
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