Université de Sherbrooke
Ph.D. candidate
Supervisor: Jérôme Théau
Thi Thanh Hiên PHAM, Université du Québec à Montréal
Start: 2021-01-11

Project

Cultivating the city: ecosystem services and social impacts of urban agriculture in secondary cities of Vietnam
Urban agriculture is drawing growing attention from scholars, city planners, and city governments because of its multiple ecological and social benefits in the context of climate changes and food price fluctuations. More specifically, urban agriculture has been recently shown to have significant potential of providing ecosystem services, including food production, water management, soil health, biodiversity, climate mitigation, and community development benefits. Mapping and measuring urban ecosystem services (ES) plays an important role in monitoring natural and anthropized areas that provide ES (its identification and classification), verifying how this provision changes according to time and space, and assessing how human-driven changes impacted the urban areas, positively or negatively. In Vietnam, urban agriculture is growing in popularity in large lowland cities yet there are only a few studies focusing on gardens on urban land already designated for agriculture. The main goal of my research is to examine ecosystem services and social impacts of urban agriculture in secondary cities of Vietnam in order to support decision making regarding the management of urban agriculture.