Abstract
Due to the rapid urbanization in the context of the conventional linear economy, the vulnerability of the urban ecosystem to climate change has increased. As a result, connecting urban ecosystem services of different urban land uses is imperative for urban sustainability and resilience. In conventional land use planning, urban agriculture (UA) and urban stormwater management are treated as separate economic sectors with different-disconnected-ecosystem services. Furthermore, few studies have synthesized knowledge regarding the potential impacts of integration of UA and stormwater green infrastructures (GIs) on the quantity and quality of urban ecosystem services of both economic sectors. This study provides a detailed analysis of the imperative question—how should a city integrate the developments of both urban agriculture and stormwater green infrastructure to overcome barriers while enhancing the ecosystem services? To answer this question, we conducted an extensive literature review. The results show that integrating UA with GIs can enhance urban food production while protecting urban water quality. This paper provides an initial context and mechanisms for future researchers and city planners regarding the manner in which the synergies between UA and stormwater GIs can create greater value for the wellbeing of urban ecosystems and resilience in the circular economy.
Highlights
As most of the world’s population lives in urban areas, managing urban food insecurity and stormwater runoff is increasingly challenging globally due to the combined effects of climate change, rapid urban development, and fast population growth [1]
Urbanurban sustainability and resilience depend on theon resilience of connected urban other words, sustainability and resilience depend the resilience of connected ecosystem services provided by different environmental and economic sectors [13]
Ecosysurban ecosystem services provided by different environmental and economic sectors tem services are benefits provided to humans through the transformations of resources
Summary
As most of the world’s population lives in urban areas, managing urban food insecurity and stormwater runoff is increasingly challenging globally due to the combined effects of climate change, rapid urban development, and fast population growth [1]. To address these challenges, sustainable urban agriculture (UA) and stormwater green infrastructures (GIs) have been considered to be alternative solutions to the conventional centralized agriculture practices and gray stormwater infrastructure [2,3,4,5]. Stormwater green infrastructure may be able to produce food while managing stormwater, connecting the two economic sectors is not common, nor it is considered in current stormwater management policies.
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