Document Type
Contribution to Book
Journal/Book Title
The Sustainable City XII
Publisher
WIT Press
Publication Date
12-20-2017
Volume
223
First Page
505
Last Page
515
Abstract
Permaculture, an integrative design process creating resilient and productive landscapes and communities, can serve as a useful mitigation tool for projected climate change impacts. In the United States, the desert southwest town of Moab, Utah, has employed permaculture design in a community initiative called ‘Bee Inspired Gardens.’ This initiative has harnessed social capital to create resilient landscapes demonstrating pollinator health, water conservation, and perennial food and forage systems. Bee Inspired Gardens have been designed at a University, middle school, charter school, Bureau of Land Management property, hotel, public park, environmental education non-profit, and more. Community members are now harvesting fruit and seeds from existing garden sites, attending educational workshops at the gardens, and volunteering to help with the design and implementation processes. In the desert southwest, climate change projections are for hotter, drier, weather. In preparing for, and working to mitigate, projected impacts, initiatives like ‘Bee Inspired Gardens’ can serve as models for other communities looking to take positive action in climate mitigation and adaptation.
Recommended Citation
Brain, Roslynn; Adams, Jeffrey; and Lynch, Jeremy, "Mitigating Projected Impacts of Climate Change and Building Resiliency through Permaculture: a Community ‘Bee Inspired Gardens’ Movement in the Desert Southwest, USA" (2017). Environment and Society Faculty Publications. Paper 1544.
https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/envs_facpub/1544
