Metropolitan-rural relations and interdependencies: By focusing on metropolitan regions, progressive regionalist scholarship misses important aspects of the urban – rural linkages that are essential to the creation of healthy socio-ecological spaces. Putting rural and hinterland issues on the agenda of progressive regionalism acknowledges the significance of the flows of material and energy resources needed to sustain cities. The concepts of ecosystem services, ecological footprint, natural capital, and conservation-based development are important in this regard. The emergence of New Ruralism (Center for Global Metropolitan Studies 2006) is an attempt to draw attention to the rural side of urban-rural interdependencies; but this focus has not yet entered the progressive regionalist discourse in any significant way. Source: Pezzoli, K., M. Hibbard, et al. (2009). “Introduction to Symposium: Is Progressive Regionalism an Actionable Framework for Critical Planning Theory and Practice?” Journal of Planning Education and Research 28(3): 336-340.
In California we have long sought to acquire private lands threatened with land uses incompatible with conservation objectives and transfer them into public or private conservancy ownership. However, it is becoming clearer that available financial resources will be insufficient to purchase, monitor, and manage all of the land necessary to protect biodiversity and ecosystem functions. An alternative model considers privately owned working landscapes, such as forests and rangelands managed in a progressive, environmentally friendly fashion, as a means of achieving conservation objectives. Protecting working landscapes may also provide social benefits by keeping rural communities rural.
New Ruralism- Food Shed & Ag Planning
A Group called Sustainable Agricultural Education (SAGE, led by David Brower Center, Berkeley, California Tel 510-526-1793 .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)) is promoting New Ruralism as “a framework to bridge smart growth, new urbanism and sustainable food and agriculture systems.”
To create an urban-rural interface as common ground rather than battleground, SAGE is collaborating with Agriculture in Metropolitan Regions (AMR), a program of the UC Berkeley Global Metropolitan Studies Center, to develop a policy framework for New Ruralism. SAGE works with researchers to create a research agenda and policy framework, leading to publications that will refine the New Ruralism concept…go to SAGE website
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Books, Articles, Papers
SAGE Publications include San Francisco Foodshed Assessment, Urban Edge Agricultural Parks Toolkit, Urban Edge Agricultural Parks Feasibility Study, Farmers’ Market Resource Kit, Kids Cook Farm Fresh Foods Curriculum (Email .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) with inquiries), source: SAGE website
Michael Hibbard and Susan Lurie. Conservation-Based Development and Watershed Stewardship Institutions: Toward Community Indicators. Presented at the Joint Congress of the Association of European Schools of Planning and the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning, Chicago, July 7-10, 2008.
Michael Hibbard and Robert Adkins. The Challenge of Rural Economic Stability:Lessons for Brownfield Development from the Conversion of Timber Mill Sites. Presented at the 48th Annual Conference of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, October 18-21, 2007.
White, Michael D. , Jerre Ann Stallcup, Katherine Comer, Miguel Ángel Vargas Téllez, José María Beltrán-Abaunza, Fernando Ochoa, and Scott Morrison. 2006. “Designing and Establishing Conservation Areas in the Baja California-Southern California Border Region.” in The U.S. - Mexican Border Environment: Transboundary Ecosystem Management edited by K. Hoffman. San Diego: Southwest Consortium for Environmental Research and Policy Monograph Series, no. 15. San Diego State University Press. http://www.scerp.org/pubs/m15/Chapter7.pdf
Web Resources - Links and Data
http://www.tejonconservancy.org/
http://www.sagecenter.org/
Key Organization / Institutions
Tejon Ranch Conservancy: Working to preserve and enhance the biodiversity of the Tejon Ranch and Tehachapi Range for the benefit of California’s future generations (go to TRC website).
Tejon Ranch Conservation and Land Use Agreement, (Executive Summary pdf)
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