Localization I: Adaptation for the 80% Downshift

Localized Food System;Localization;School of Natural Resources and Environment

Bush, AlanGraul, AmyLuria, RachelSweeney, EricDeYoung, Raymond ;

University of Michigan

关键词: Localized Food System;    Localization;    School of Natural Resources and Environment;   

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【 摘 要 】

This project is the end‐product of year and a half long exploration of localization, a way to createmore livable communities, and to help them prepare for a changing volatile world. The exercise of thisproject was to undertake a collaborative design process that would use localization as an adaptivestrategy, and to envision the institutions and tools that could craft a resilient, equitable and sustainablefood system.The process has involved research into the food systems of North America and elsewhere,examining case studies of healthy food systems in different localities. More importantly, it has involvedmany interviews with individuals who play integral roles within existing food systems and manycollaborative brainstorming sessions. This document is not intended to provide an analysis of theresearch or an accounting of the experiences of others; rather it is a creative design exercise, drawing onthe wisdom and ideas of many to envision new solutions.The goal of this document is to provide an image of the possible, and offer a set of interlockingstrategies that a community or group of communiBes might employ to marshal their resources and builda better local food system for themselves. As such, this document is an attempt to provide the necessarytools and rough blueprint for the creation of an equitable, resilient and sustainable localized foodsystem.