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1 Urban Apiculture A Way to Reconnect Society and Nature? Examensarbete i Hållbar Utveckling 191 Master thesis in Sustainable Development Marco Claussnitzer Urban Apiculture A Way to Reconnect Society and Nature? Marco Claussnitzer Uppsala University, Department of Earth Sciences Master Thesis E, in Sustainable Development, 30 credits Printed at Department of Earth Sciences, Geotryckeriet, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Master s Thesis E, 30 credits

2 Examensarbete i Hållbar Utveckling 191 Master thesis in Sustainable Development Urban Apiculture A Way to Reconnect Society and Nature? Marco Claussnitzer Master thesis in Supervisor: Eva Friman Evaluator: Karin Ahrné Sustainable Development Uppsala University Department of Earth Sciences

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4 Urban Apiculture A Way to Reconnect Society and Nature? Master thesis in Sustainable Development at Uppsala University Abstract Apis mellifera Keywords Marco Claussnitzer, Department of Earth Sciences, Uppsala University, Villavägen 16, SE Uppsala, Sweden

5 Urban Apiculture A Way to Reconnect Society and Nature? Master thesis in Sustainable Development at Uppsala University Popular Summary Keywords Marco Claussnitzer, Department of Earth Sciences, Uppsala University, Villavägen 16, SE Uppsala, Sweden

6 Table of Contents

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8 1 Introduction Background Problem formulation Apis mellifera et al.

9 et al. et al. Aim and research questions

10 Scope and limitations

11 Methodology

12 Outline

13 2 Establishing the Framework Urban development et al. The Wealth of Nations

14 et al.

15 Urban development as a driver of environmental change et al. et al. et al. et al. Planetary Boundarieset al.

16 et al. et al. et al. et al.

17 et al. Reconnecting urban life to the biosphere et al. et al. et al. et al. Brundtland Report Our Common Future

18 et al. et al. Table 1 Table 1 Ecosystem service Examples

19 et al. et al.

20 et al. et al. et al. et al. et al. et al.

21 et al. et al. The role of corporate responsibility

22 et al.

23 et al.

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25 3 Initiatives in urban apiculture

26

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28 4 Data presentation Impact of an urban environment on honeybees et al. et al.et al. et al. et al. et al.

29 Impact of honeybees on an urban environment et al. et al.

30 Pim Bendt, Bee Urban Issues of too many honeybees

31 Mitch Steprans, Inmidtown Impact of urban apiculture on a corporation

32 Olivier Seznec, Cisco Paris Kristina Philipson, White Jens Hornestedt, Linklaters

33 Susanne DeOcampo-Herrmann, Hotel Berlin, Berlin Olivier Seznec, Cisco Paris Kristina Philipson, White Jens Hornestedt, Linklaters Credit Agricole

34 Kristina Philipson, White Jens Hornestedt, Linklaters

35 5 Analysis and discussion Noah Wilson-Rich, Best Bees

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37 6 Conclusion

38 Acknowledgements References PLoS ONE4 Biology Letters6 Advances in Parasitology62 Ecology Letters9 BBC News London The Guardian The Guardian Linking Social and Ecological Systems: Management Practices and Social Mechanisms for Building Resilience Science313 BBC

39 BBC Ecological Economics 29 BioScience51 Quarterly Journal of Economics116 Business Ethics: Managing Corporate Citizenship and Sustainability in the Age of Globalization Spatial Resilience in Social-Ecological Systems Nature s Services: Societal Dependence on Natural Ecosystems American Economic Review92 Journal of Political Economy105 American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings89 Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 1 Global Environmental Change16 Ecology and Society15 Ecological Applications6 Ambio40 Strategic Management: A Stakeholder Approach The New York Times Ecological Economics68 Ecological Economics86 Science319 Urbanization, Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services: Challenges and Opportunities: A Global Assessment The Containment of Urban England

40 TreeHugger Handbook of Regional and Urban Economics The Academy of Management Journal42 Review of Economics and Statistics 81 The Planetary Bargain: Corporate Social Responsibility Matters Quarterly Journal of Economics108 Ecological Economics86 Open House International32 Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences274 Journal of Regional Science 33 International Journal of Management Reviews10 Metaphilosophy 33 The Ecosystem Approach: Its Use and Abuse Principles of Economics Biological Conservation129 Biological Conversation127 The Ecological City: Preserving and Restoring Urban Biodiversity PLoS Biology5 Get Midtown Buzzing, Survey Analysis Report Acta Oecologica39 Ecosystems2

41 Concepts of Ecosystem Ecology: A Comparative View The Biologist60 Ecosystems72 Ecology and Society14 Planet Dialectics: Explorations in Environment and Development Business Ethics Quarterly19 BBC Ambio36 Manual for Cities: Ecosystem Services in Urban Management The Canadian Entomologist, 136(6) World Urbanisation Prospects, The 2011 Revision Demographic Yearbook Ecosystems and Human Well-being Our Common Future, Brundtland Report PLoS ONE4 Private Sector Uptake of Ecosystem Services Concepts and Frameworks, The Current State of Play Ecology and Society9 Academy of Management Review 30 Trends in World Urbanisation Handbook of Strategy and Management The Diversity of Life

42 Every City Needs Healthy Honey Bees Journal of Management17 Living Planet Report 2012 Landscape and Urban Planning71 The New York Times

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