This Thursday, 11 September, the UV holds a meeting entitled ‘Los Huertos Urbanos’. Una respuesta social’ (The Urban Vegetable Gardens.A Social Response), in where UV Professor Inmaculada Revuelta (Administrative Law) and Ernest Cano (Applie Economy) will deliver two talks. There will be also a roundtable in where several local specialists will share with the audience their experiences in the starting up of community vegetable gardens.
The urban vegetable gardens phenomenon in the region of Valencia has become into a movement with a large tradition through the last decade. Each time more, vegetable gardens have broad support by associations and social movements, which are starting up several urban vegetable gardens networks and planning initiatives to ensure they keep on growing.
At this juncture, the Office of the Vice-principal for Participation and Territorial Projection of the UV, in collaboration with IMELSA and the Botanical Garden, organizes a reflection conference around the urban vegetable gardens phenomenon and social and environmental impact they have on out territory. The Vice-principal Jorge Hermosilla, the he Councillor for the Environment, Salvador Enguix, and the director of the Botanical Garden, Isabel Mateu, inaugurated the lecture series.
Inmaculada Revuelta, Tenured Professor of Administrative Law of the UV, will deliver a lecture entitled “Huertos urbanos: consideraciones conceptuales, funcionales y normativas” (Urban Vegetable Gardens: Conceptual Considerations, Functions and Regulations). Her teaching and researching activity has focused essentially on Environmental Law, she is author of several scientific publications on the subject. Likewise, she has taken part in several researching project in this field, currently, she directs a National Plan Project of I+D+y on renewable energies regulation. Since 2006 juggles university activity with the position of Alternate Magistrate in the Administrative Chamber High Court of Justice of the Valencian Community.
The second lecturer is Ernest Cano, tenured professor of the Department of Applied Economics of the UV, which reflects about “Los huertos urbanos comunitarios en el contexto de la actual crisis” (Urban Community Vegetable Garden in the context of the current crisis). Ernest Cano is, also, Dean of the Faculty Social Sciences of the UV and a member of the Neighbours’ Association of Benimaclet and Vegetable Gardens Neighbourhood of Benimaclet. Nowadays, her researches are focused in matters related to labour economy, work market in Spain and in the Valencian Country, Valencian productive system and local development.
The conference will conclude with a roundtable in where several specialists will share community and particular experiences and actions in urban vegetable gardens of coastal and inland spaces. The conference will be intervened by: Enrique Aguilar, president of the Tribunal de las Aguas de la Vega de Valencia (The Water Tribunal of the plain of Valencia); Vicente Parra, First Deputy Mayor of the Town Council of Xativa and president of the Association of Municipalities Costera-Canal; José Vicente Ubeda, high technician on Environment of the Deputy of Valencia; y Myriam Mestre, technic of the Corporative Agri-food Federation of the Valencian Community.
Last update: 10 de september de 2014 11:37.
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