Family Urban Agriculture in Russia - Lessons and Prospects

The book results from research carried out by the authors since 1999 on urban gardening collectives in Russia, then from the extension of this research towards collective urban gardening in France, with some investigations in other European Union Member States and Brazil. This research was carried out within the framework of Kazan University (currently, the Institute of Administration and Territorial Development of the Federal University of Kazan) and the French National Institute for Agricultural Research (INRA). It enabled the creation of an international research network entitled Sustainable Development of Cities: the Relationship between City-Dwellers and Nature. This research was developed with help from a three-year research contract (October 2009 - September 2012) with the GESSOL programme of the French Ministry of Ecology, on the theme of the use of urban and peri-urban soils for the sustainable development of cities. The final report of this research contract provides the basis for the book.

List of contents

Notice.- Preamble: Heal the World.- Chapter I. Introduction.- Chapter II. The palimpsest of urban gardening in Russia.- Chapter III. A new civil right won under the Soviet regime.- Chapter IV. A post-Soviet phenomenon.- Chapter V. The Russian Urban Grower: representations and practices.- Chapter VI. In favour of a new perspective.- Chapter VII. A continental rhizome: gardening policies and visions of society.- Chapter VIII. Western and Southern Europe viewed from a Russian perspective.- Chapter IX. Universal meaning.- Annexes.- Annex 1. The capitals: Moscou, Saint-Pétersbourg, Kazan.- Annex 2. The collective gardens "War Veterans".- Annex 3. The collective gardens "No. 7 of the Aircraft Engine Manufacturing Company/KMPO Kazan": massif Soukhaya rieka.- Annex 4. The collective gardens "Victoria Island".- List of boxes, diagrams, documents, maps, photography's, tables.- Bibliography.- Glossary.- General Summary.

Product details

• Authors: Louiza Boukharaeva, Louiza M Boukharaeva, Louiza M. Boukharaeva, Marcel Marloie
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.04.2015
• EAN: 9783319116136
• ISBN: 978-3-31-911613-6
• No. of pages: 215
• Dimensions: 175 mm x 17 mm x 243 mm
• Weight: 467 g
• Illustrations: XVII, 215 p. 58 illus., 45 illus. in color.
• Series: Urban Agriculture; Urban Agriculture
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Agriculture, horticulture; forestry, fishing, food; B, Sustainability, Urban Planning, Sustainable Development, Social Policy, Social & ethical issues, Agriculture, Urban & municipal planning, Political Economy, Regional & area planning, Ecological science, the Biosphere, Biomedical and Life Sciences, Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning, Regional planning, Urban Ecology, Urban ecology (Biology), Human Geography