TY - JOUR
T1 - Co-creating sustainability indicators for the local water–energy–food nexus
AU - Moreira, Fabiano de Araújo
AU - Dalla Fontana, Michele
AU - Sepe, Patrícia Marra
AU - Lopes, Mathews Vichr
AU - Moura, Lucas do Vale
AU - Medeiros, Larissa Santos
AU - de Kraker, Joop
AU - Malheiros, Tadeu Fabrício
AU - Di Giulio, Gabriela Marques
N1 - Funding Information:
This research has been funded by FAPESP—São Paulo Research Foundation (Proc. 2018/21249-0; Proc. 2018/21362-1) within the Project GLOCULL—“Globally and LOCally-sustainable food-water-energy innovation in Urban Living Labs” (Proc. Fapesp 2017/50423-6). The authors would like to thank all the practitioners that voluntarily took part in the research and contributed to the results, as well as the anonymous reviewers for their comments and suggestions.
Funding Information:
Among these activities, the project “Ligue os Pontos” (LoP—or “Connect the Dots”) has gained particular local and international attention due to its innovative approach for sustainable development ( https://ligueospontos.prefeitura.sp.gov.br/ ). Municipal practitioners involved in our study were also involved in LoP, potentially making collaboration easier and more fruitful. Conceived and coordinated by the city of São Paulo, through the Municipal Secretariat for Urbanism and Licensing, the project received the 2016 Mayors Challenge Latin America and The Caribbean Award established and supported by the Bloomberg Philanthropies, and was active until 2021. The main goals of the LoP were to: (i) contain urban sprawl in the south zone of São Paulo by maintaining the farmers in the area, (ii) promote sustainable resource use and agriculture, and (iii) preserve natural ecosystems. The project operated mainly on three fronts: (1) ‘Data and Evidence’, collecting data and information about the farmers and agricultural properties in the region through a census and mapping, to encourage and establish data-based decision-making in rural development policies; (2) ‘Strengthening Agriculture’, offering technical assistance to farmers to promote the transition to organic and agroecological agriculture and improve traditional techniques; and (3) ‘Value chain’, seeking to improve market access for farmers and the logistics of food production and distribution.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2022, The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Japan KK, part of Springer Nature.
PY - 2022/11
Y1 - 2022/11
KW - Sustainability indicators
KW - Transdisciplinarity
KW - Usability
KW - Water–energy–food nexus
U2 - 10.1007/s11625-022-01141-y
DO - 10.1007/s11625-022-01141-y
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85128920222
SN - 1862-4065
VL - 17
SP - 2315
EP - 2329
JO - Sustainability Science
JF - Sustainability Science
IS - 6
ER -