Workshop // Resiliency in Urban Food, Energy, and Water Systems

The talk by Dr. Joshua Newell, Assistant Professor, University of Michigan, School of Natural Resource and Environment is titled “Will Scaling-up Urban Agriculture Mitigate or Exacerbate Food-Energy-Water Impacts?"

Where and when

The State University of New Jersey
School of Environmental & Biological Sciences Rutgers
Department of Human Ecology
55 Dudley Road
New Brunswick, NJ 08901-8520
USA 3 February 2017

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Abstract

We are experiencing an agricultural renaissance in city-regions across the U.S. and studies indicate that virtually all of our food could hypothetically be grown on land within 100 miles of the city cen-ter. Despite widespread public acceptance that this would be a desirable and sustainable transformation, some research suggests that this “scaling-up” of agriculture could actually exacerbate impacts on food-energy-water (FEW) systems due to greater water and energy use and negative impacts on air and water quality. In this presentation, Newell will discuss the po-tential synergies and trade-offs associated with scaling-up agriculture in and around cities. The talk will be followed by Rutgers Panelists commentaries on Urban FEWs Resilience Qizhong (George) Guo (Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering), Clint Andrews, (Professor and Associate Dean for Planning, Bloustein School of Public Policy) and Robin Leichenko (Professor and Department Chair, Geography Department). After the panel and question and answer period, attendees will breakout into groups to brainstorm potential INFEWs research questions for future funding opportunities. Source: Rudgers website