Global urbanization and food production are in direct competition for land. This paper carries
out a critical review of how displacing crop production from urban and peri-urban land to …

Gated communities became an 'object of study'in the 1990s as social scientists observed
their growth in several cities; they are now a feature of the urban landscape in most cities …

The 2020 coronavirus pandemic caused countries across the world to implement measures
of social distancing to curb spreading of COVID-19. The large and sudden disruptions to …

The circumstances under which different ecosystem service benefits can be realized differ.
The benefits tend to be coproduced and to be enabled by multiple interacting social …

Within-city green infrastructure can offer opportunities and new contexts for people to
become stewards of ecosystem services. We analyze cities as social–ecological systems …

While cultural diversity is increasing in cities at a global level as a result of urbanization,
biodiversity is decreasing with a subsequent loss of ecosystem services. It is clear that …

The commons is increasingly invoked as a way to envision new worlds. One strand of
commons research focuses at the local scale, on small groups in “traditional”, mostly rural …

Many ecosystem services are in decline. Local ecological knowledge and associated
practice are essential to sustain and enhance ecosystem services on the ground. Here, we …

This article examines the role played by urban gardens during historical collapses in urban
food supply lines and identifies the social processes required to protect two critical elements …

The ongoing crisis of global capitalism has served only to intensify the past four decades of
neoliberal restructuring of cities across the world. In this paper I critically reflect on a literary …