The main goal of this Work Package is to design a strategy that integrates concerns of food security with spatial issues towards a Post-Carbon City (PCC). 

This WP will evaluate the specific nutrition socio-technical system (SST) of Lisbon Metropolitan Area (LMA), while establishing a possible methodology for other urban areas. This WP is established on the assumption that the nutrition socio-technical system (SST) is very relevant to sustainability and as such can contribute to a future agenda for a PCC, as already advocated by a number of political and scientific agendas (e.g., Europe 2020; EU Common Agricultural Policy).   

The acknowledgement of this issue remits to a multidimensional approach of sustainability and the resilience of cities, which should consider the current main societal challenges such as food security. A number of complementary approaches to access the nutrition SST will be used, including: urban metabolism, food security, and technological and social innovation. In addition, distinctive methods, tools and sources with interest to the investigation shall be identified to build the main analytical framework of the investigation. Likewise, a number of relevant case studies carried out in other contexts will be used. This framework should provide views on the impact of production, distribution and access to food at different territorial scales.   

The proposed framework acknowledges the analysis of the food SST of LMA, in a sustainability perspective, while prompting for an identification of the: (i) main obstacles that operate in the dominant system; (ii) the new and emergent experiences which are taking place at present in the LMA; and (iii) the characterization of the SST landscape.  

This WP draws upon previous research developed at DINÂMIA'CET-IUL over the last years, including a number of projects which have been applied into the LMA (Periurban, MEMO and TESS), and that have investigated water, agriculture, food and other resources in a historical and contemporary perspective, but also making use of methodological approaches which have allowed interaction with the main actors, built up by multidisciplinary research teams. 

The final outputs include the characterization of the nutrition SST in the LMA; the identification of the key factors and agents able to promote change towards sustainability; and the construction of an analytical framework applicable to other contexts. 

Coordinated by: Teresa Marat-Mendes e Maria Fátima Ferreiro (DINÂMIA'CET-IUL)