Urban Foraging in the Changing World

This volume brings together theoretical, experiential, and creative perspectives on the phenomenon of urban foraging. In a rapidly urbanising world, foraging is (re)raining popularity as a way to connect with nature and cope with uncertainty. Authors from various disciplines and geographies make sen...

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Tabl Cynhwysion:
  • Section 1 : Why do foragers forage
  • Chapter-01_We who forage: a broad reflection on the theory and practice of urban foraging
  • Chapter-02_Making sense of diversity of foragers
  • chapter-03_Experience foraging: connecting with nature and each other through Foraging Field Courses in Kent, England
  • Chapter_04 - Practices and Perceptions of Foraging in Lagos Metropolis, Nigeria
  • Chapter_05 - Traditional Connect to Urban Foraging: Experiences from Bali, Indonesia
  • Section 2: What is foraged?
  • Chapter_06 - Rampant urbanization, loss of green spaces, depleting foraging wisdom for nutrition, health and protecting urban greenscapes: Lessons from populous Uttar Pradesh, India
  • Chapter_07 - Contribution of underutilized wild edibles extracted from urban landscapes for food security and socio-ecological resilience in Kashmir
  • Chapter_08 - Diversity and distribution of forageable tree species across greenspace types in fast-growing city in India: Lessons from Nagpur, India
  • Section 3: Where is it foraged?
  • Chapter_ 09 - Accessing culturally significant species in New York City, USA’s urban forest: The case of Ginkgo biloba and Morus spp harvesting from street trees by Chinese-American residents and their descendents
  • Chapter_10 - Designing Edible British Cities: Foraging and Wild Herbalism
  • Chapter_11 - Encountering the Hidden Bounty of the Urban Forest: Community Foraging Practices and Policies in Canada
  • Section 4: How do foragers forage?
  • Chapter_12 - Learning to find the “food beneath your feet”: Urban foraging, social-meetups, and mobile social-ecological memory in Philadelphia, USA
  • Chapter_13 - Urban foraging for social-ecological resilience in the Global South
  • Chapter_14 - Foraging in fast-expanding urban areas in the Indian Himalayas
  • Section 5 : Practitioner Perspectives
  • Chapter_15 - Foraging as Sustenance and Dissent in Villages bordering Bengaluru
  • Chapter_16 - Foraging – finding food and cure
  • Chapter_17 - The Ubiquitous Dhekia and its ‘deep roots’ to nurture people’s Lives- A Case of urban foraging from Assam
  • Chapter_18 - Exploring Urban Foraging in Edible Cities: Cultivating Sustainable Urban Environments for Social Cohesion and Economic Growth
  • Section 6 : Looking to the future
  • Chapter_19 - Expanding availability and consumption of Cerrado biome species and Non-Conventional Food Plants in urban and peri-urban spaces of Brasilia
  • Chapter_20 - More-than-human urban foraging: designing landscapes for multispecies sustainability in shrinking urban Japan
  • Chapter_21 - We who forage: a personal reflection on the theory and practice of urban foraging.