TY  - JOUR
A1  - Rolf, Werner
A1  - Pauleit, Stephan
A1  - Wiggering, Hubert
T1  - A stakeholder approach, door opener for farmland and multifunctionality in urban green infrastructure
JF  - Urban forestry & urban greening
N2  - During the last years Urban Green Infrastructure (UGI) has evolved as a research focus across Europe. UGI can be understood as a multifunctional network of different urban green spaces and elements contributing to urban benefits. Urban agriculture has gained increasing research interest in this context. While a strong focus has been made on functions and benefits of small scale activities, the question is still open, whether these findings can be up-scaled and transferred to the farmland scale. Furthermore, multifunctionality of urban and peri-urban agriculture is rarely being considered in the landscape context. This research aims to address these gaps and harnesses the question if agricultural landscapes – which in many European metropolitan regions provide significant spatial potential – can contribute to UGI as multifunctional green spaces. This work considers multifunctionality qualitatively based on stakeholder opinion, using a participatory research approach. This study provides new insights in peri-urban farmland potentials for UGI development, resulting into a strategy framework. Furthermore, it reflects on the role of the stakeholder involvement for `multifunctionality planning´. It suggests that it helps to define meaningful bundles of intertwined functions that interact on different scales, helping to deal with non-linearity of multiple functions and to better manage them simultaneously.
KW  - Benefits
KW  - Functions
KW  - Green surge
KW  - Multifunctionality
KW  - Participation
KW  - Peri-urban agriculture
KW  - Stakeholder
KW  - Urban learning lab
Y1  - 2018
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ufug.2018.07.012
SN  - 1618-8667
VL  - 40
SP  - 73
EP  - 83
PB  - Urban & Fischer
CY  - Jena
ER  -