A model of food forestry and its monitoring framework in the context of ecological restoration

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dc.contributor.authorPark, Hyeone
dc.contributor.supervisorHiggs, Eric
dc.date.accessioned2016-12-22T21:16:28Z
dc.date.available2016-12-22T21:16:28Z
dc.date.copyright2016en_US
dc.date.issued2016-12-22
dc.degree.departmentSchool of Environmental Studiesen_US
dc.degree.levelMaster of Arts M.A.en_US
dc.description.abstractFood forestry has grown in its popularity in Canada, the United States and the United Kingdom, which it has not been traditionally practiced before, for its potential to produce healthy food, to create habitat for wildlife species, to reconnect people with nature and to provide various ecosystem services such as carbon storage. Diverse food forest projects are conceived from urban food initiatives to integrated conservation and restoration planning. Currently, the Galiano Conservancy Association is creating two food forests in the heart of a mature Coastal Douglas-fir landscape on Galiano Island, British Columbia, which is protected under a conservation covenant, in pursuit of sustainable food production, education and contribution to ecological restoration and conservation efforts. To investigate the relationships between emerging food forestry and ecological restoration and to identify key indicators to measure best practices of food forestry in the context of ecological restoration, I conducted 16 semi-structured interviews with food forestry and ecological restoration experts. In addition, I conducted a workshop with the Conservancy stakeholders to develop a comprehensive and systematic monitoring framework for their food forest projects. My studies suggest that restoration principles and resilience thinking can provide guidelines for restorative food forestry. Food forestry may serve as an innovative restoration tool to restore urban landscapes where lack significant opportunities for conventional restoration. A generic monitoring framework for food forestry could be adapted by other projects, yet this will require the process of defining goals and objectives of a given project and assessing landscape contexts and the organization’s capacity to monitor.en_US
dc.description.proquestemailsoph.park@yahoo.caen_US
dc.description.scholarlevelGraduateen_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1828/7689
dc.languageEnglisheng
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.rightsAvailable to the World Wide Weben_US
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/ca/*
dc.subjectEcological restorationen_US
dc.subjectFood foresten_US
dc.subjectFood forestryen_US
dc.subjectForest Gardenen_US
dc.subjectGaliano Conservancy Associationen_US
dc.subjectagroforestryen_US
dc.subjectMonitoringen_US
dc.subjectConservationen_US
dc.subjectForest restorationen_US
dc.titleA model of food forestry and its monitoring framework in the context of ecological restorationen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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