eprintid: 4296
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datestamp: 2023-07-25 14:01:48
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type: thesis
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creators_name: Osinga, Peter
creators_id: S4473310
creators_email: p.osinga@student.rug.nl
title: Sustainable Cities through Sustainable Food Systems
ispublished: unpub
full_text_status: public
abstract: In this thesis, research has been done on the implementation of sustainable food systems within future city vision documents. Food systems are often left-out when it comes to things that can be made more sustainable within our environment. For this research, the two city vision documents of London and Rotterdam have been chosen to analyse and compare, to find out in what ways sustainable food systems are included. In order to find the differences between the policies of London and Rotterdam, it will be researched to what extent sustainable food systems strategies differ in the future plans of London and Rotterdam, and how these could be improved. This is also the main question of the research. The main results of the research were that both London and Rotterdam had the same ambitions regarding sustainable food systems, but their focus points differ. The future vision document of London had Health as its main priority, whereas the document of Rotterdam focused more on Resource Management. On top of that, the London document was more comprehensive, as most of the mentioned strategies regarding sustainable food systems were covered in completion, whereas strategies in the document of Rotterdam were more general. However, the future vision document of London did not mention any form of funding for their strategies, where the document of Rotterdam did mention funding. For future research, there could be looked into the actual implementation of the strategies that are conducted in both documents, and how the affordability of food could be improved.
date: 2023
pages: 23
thesis_type: bachelor
degree_programme: TP
tutors_name: Woltjer, J.
tutors_organization: Fac. Ruimtelijke wetenschappen, Faculteit Ruimtelijke Wetenschappen
tutors_email: J.Woltjer@rug.nl
security: public
keywords_local: sustainability
keywords_local: food systems
keywords_local: circular economy
keywords_local: health, diet
keywords_local: resource management
language_iso: en
date_issued: 2023-07-24
citation:   Osinga, Peter  (2023) Sustainable Cities through Sustainable Food Systems.  Bachelor thesis.   
document_url: https://frw.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/4296/1/Sustainable%20Cities%20through%20Sustainable%20Food%20Systems%20-%20Peter%20Osinga.pdf