Title

Sustainability for Whom? Place-makers of Detroit, Dominica, Ecuador, and Mexico

Authors

Emma Gaalaas Mullaney, Bucknell University

Start Date

25-10-2017 12:00 PM

End Date

25-10-2017 12:50 PM

Description

Drawing from more than a decade of work with farmers in rural and urban areas across the Americas, Professor Gaalaas Mullaney highlights some key findings about how small-scale farmers have a big influence on the conservation of cultural and ecological richness in their region. In each of these diverse places, innovative farmers work at the margins of dominant political and economic institutions with only occasional recognition of the value that they produce. What can these farmers teach us about how to cultivate place-based sustainability? How is sustainability related to social and economic justice?

Keywords

small-scale farming, conservation, place-making, place, sustainability

Rights

© Bucknell Center for Sustainability and the Environment

Type

Other

Comments

Speakers responded to the following three questions and Shaunna Barnhart, Director of the Place Studies program summarized the speakers' responses.

Prompts --

• How does your work relate to the concept of place-making?
• What are potential benefits and/or shortcomings you see for place-making in sustainability?
• What aspects of your work can we apply to a place-making approach to sustainability at Bucknell and in our local region?

Language

eng