Urban Agriculture as a Sustainability Transition Strategy for Shrinking Cities? Land Use Change Trajectory as an Obstacle in Kyoto City, Japan
Abstract
:1. Introduction
- (a)
- How has agricultural land use in Kyoto changed over the last 10 years (2007–2017)?
- (b)
- What are the most prevalent land use types in sites previously used for agriculture?
2. Materials and Methods
2.1. Study Site
2.2. Data Collection and Analysis
3. Results
4. Discussion
4.1. On Track for Local Food Production and Sustainability?
4.2. National and International Comparison
4.3. Implications for Planning and Policy
4.4. Limitations
5. Conclusions
Supplementary Materials
Acknowledgments
Author Contributions
Conflicts of Interest
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Farmland Type | Farmland in 2007 (ha) | Converted to Non-Ag Land Use (ha) | Converted from Non-Ag Land Use (ha) | Converted to Other Farmland Type (ha) | Converted from Other Farmland Type (ha) | Farmland in 2017 (ha) |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Dry fields | 717.37 | −119.06 | 4.46 | −0.96 | 7.23 | 609.04 |
Rice paddies | 1088.42 | −88.02 | 1.94 | −8.27 | 0.96 | 995.03 |
Orchards | 80.58 | −1.14 | 1.03 | 0.28 | 80.74 | |
Allotments | 5.41 | 0.76 | 6.17 | |||
Tea plantations | 4.74 | 4.74 | ||||
Total | 1896.52 | −208.23 | 7.43 | −9.23 | 9.23 | 1695.72 |
Farmland Type | Farmland in 2007 (ha) | Converted to Non-Ag Land Use (%) | Converted from Non-Ag Land Use (%) | Converted to Other Farmland Type (%) | Converted from Other Farmland Type (%) | Farmland in 2017 (%) |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Dry fields | 717.37 | −16.6 | 0.6 | −0.1 | 1.0 | 84.9 |
Rice paddies | 1088.42 | −8.1 | 0.2 | −0.8 | 0.1 | 91.4 |
Orchards | 80.58 | −1.4 | 1.3 | 0.3 | 100.2 | |
Allotments | 5.41 | 14.0 | 114.0 | |||
Tea plantations | 4.74 | 100.0 | ||||
Total | 1896.52 | −11.0 | 0.4 | −0.5 | 0.5 | 89.4 |
City Ward | Persisting Farm-Land (ha) | Converted to Non-Ag Land Use (ha) | Converted to Other Farmland Type (ha) | Converted from Non-Ag Land Use (ha) | Loss Ratio (%) | Surveyed Area (ha) | Loss/Survey Area Ratio (%) | Farmland/Survey Area Ratio (%) |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Fushimi | 725.38 | 80.40 | 3.12 | 2.36 | 9.91 | 5064.68 | 1.59 | 14.43 |
Nishikyō | 395.81 | 35.33 | 2.15 | 1.05 | 8.13 | 3003.18 | 1.18 | 13.29 |
Ukyō | 145.98 | 19.18 | 0.00 | 0.62 | 11.57 | 2321.78 | 0.83 | 6.31 |
Yama-shina | 121.50 | 17.27 | 2.00 | 1.36 | 12.15 | 1921.06 | 0.90 | 6.50 |
Sakyō | 105.14 | 21.48 | 0.41 | 1.59 | 16.70 | 2556.04 | 0.84 | 4.19 |
Minami | 98.30 | 19.35 | 0.81 | 0.21 | 16.31 | 1578.82 | 1.23 | 6.29 |
Kita | 85.26 | 14.19 | 0.72 | 0.19 | 14.14 | 1593.44 | 0.89 | 5.41 |
Shimgyō | 0.79 | 0.72 | 0.00 | 0.02 | 47.05 | 678.71 | 0.11 | 0.12 |
Nakagyō | 0.56 | 0.32 | 0.00 | 0.05 | 34.52 | 740.08 | 0.04 | 0.08 |
Higashi-yama | 0.27 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.01 | 0.00 | 747.07 | 0.00 | 0.04 |
Kamigyō | 0.08 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 702.74 | 0.00 | 0.01 |
Total | 1679.06 | 208.23 | 9.23 | 7.43 | 10.94 | 20,907.60 | 1.00 | 8.11 |
Category | Subtype | Total (ha) | Total (%) |
---|---|---|---|
Residential | 83.78 | 40.2 | |
Detached housing | 61.93 | 29.7 | |
Shared housing | 21.85 | 10.5 | |
Vacant land | 57.66 | 27.7 | |
Vacant lots | 17.69 | 8.5 | |
Abandoned lots | 37.58 | 18.0 | |
Tree succession | 2.39 | 1.1 | |
Infrastructure | 31.46 | 15.1 | |
Parking lots | 17.17 | 8.2 | |
Roads | 14.29 | 6.9 | |
Commercial use | 20.50 | 9.8 | |
Retail | 8.33 | 4.0 | |
Industrial | 12.17 | 5.8 | |
Other | 14.83 | 7.1 | |
Aged care facilities | 4.87 | 2.3 | |
Solar panels | 0.43 | 0.2 | |
Other | 9.53 | 4.6 | |
Total | 208.23 | 100 |
City | Ag Land 2007 | Ag Land 2017 | Change (%) |
---|---|---|---|
Kyoto | 2690 | 2500 | −7.1% |
Kitakyushu | 2560 | 2270 | −11.3% |
Kobe | 4530 | 4410 | −2.6% |
Nagano * | 8020 | 8160 | 1.7% |
Noshiro | 7700 | 7540 | −2.1% |
Sapporo | 3580 | 2630 | −26.5% |
Yokohama | 3060 | 2800 | −8.5% |
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Oda, K.; Rupprecht, C.D.D.; Tsuchiya, K.; McGreevy, S.R. Urban Agriculture as a Sustainability Transition Strategy for Shrinking Cities? Land Use Change Trajectory as an Obstacle in Kyoto City, Japan. Sustainability 2018, 10, 1048. https://doi.org/10.3390/su10041048
Oda K, Rupprecht CDD, Tsuchiya K, McGreevy SR. Urban Agriculture as a Sustainability Transition Strategy for Shrinking Cities? Land Use Change Trajectory as an Obstacle in Kyoto City, Japan. Sustainability. 2018; 10(4):1048. https://doi.org/10.3390/su10041048
Chicago/Turabian StyleOda, Kimisato, Christoph D. D. Rupprecht, Kazuaki Tsuchiya, and Steven R. McGreevy. 2018. "Urban Agriculture as a Sustainability Transition Strategy for Shrinking Cities? Land Use Change Trajectory as an Obstacle in Kyoto City, Japan" Sustainability 10, no. 4: 1048. https://doi.org/10.3390/su10041048