City of forests, city of farms

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This dissertation examines how the politics and practices of urban forestry and urban agriculture in New York City are negotiated. Centering on the municipal long-term sustainability plan, PlaNYC2030, it examines the network of actors, discourses, and socio-natural environments that constitute urban forestry and agriculture. It asks: what actors via what institutions make what claims in order to shape the goals that are set within the plan? What accounts for the varied treatment of urban forestry and agriculture within a single sustainability planning process? And how do the goals of the plan alter resource management practices going forward? It compares two natural resource use systems that are constituted out of different material components, deploying differing discourses about nature, society, and ‘sustainability’. This study presents case studies of urban forestry and agriculture as they thread through (yet also exceed the scope of) PlaNYC2030 from 2007-2011. This comparison revea

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