Call for Papers: American Planning Association Annual Conference

Posted by on July 22, 2005

[posted from Community Food Security Coalition listserv]

CALL FOR PAPERS

American Planning Association Annual Conference
San Antonio, Texas
April 22-26, 2006

?PLANNING FOR THE FOOD SYSTEM? TRACK

Deadline: September 1, 2005

For the first time ever, the 2005 APA national conference in San Francisco hosted a special track of sessions devoted entirely to exploring connections between planning and the food system. Seven well-attended, informative sessions examined the links between food and such community planning objectives as neighborhood improvement, public health, economic development, effective land use and transportation, and community participation. To build on this successful effort, we seek proposals for papers and sessions for the 2006 APA conference in San Antonio that discuss innovative research and practice on a variety of community food system planning topics. Proposals may address:

? Innovative land use and transportation planning to improve food access in low-income rural and urban areas
? The planning implications of bio-diversity and sustainable food systems
? Rural issues in food security and related planning efforts
? The mutual impacts of the food system and the natural environment
? Linking school and other institutional buyers with food growers
? Integrating planning for access to healthy foods and for increased physical activity to combat obesity
? Water planning and policies to build more sustainable food systems
? Planning to increase the safety of the food system
? Community engagement and local capacity development in food system planning
? Sustainable approaches to food system wastes (municipal composting, landfill diversion, etc.)
? Local government policies to build stronger local and regional food systems

Instructions
For this track, you may submit a regular session proposal or a paper abstract. Both APA members and non-members may submit either regular session proposals or paper abstracts. However, non-members need to read the speaker registration policy to understand APA’s policies; for more information, please browse
http://www.planning.org/2006conference/sessionproposal/speakerreg.htm.

If you wish to submit a regular session proposal, please use the General Session Submission instructions and online form at: http://www.planning.org/2006conference/sessionproposal/submissions.htm

If you wish to submit a paper, please go to: http://www.planning.org/2006conference/sessionproposal/foodsystem.htm
If your paper is selected, you will be assigned to a session along with other paper presenters.

Proposal Deadline and Format
The deadline for submitting proposals or abstracts is September 1, 2005. All proposals must be submitted online. We recommend that you do not wait until the last minute to submit. The website will be busy that day, so please plan ahead.

Questions?

If you have questions about submitting a session proposal or abstract, please contact: [email protected].

If you have difficulty with your online submission, please contact: [email protected].

If you have questions about the ?Planning for the food system? track or specific food- planning topics mentioned above, please contact either of the following individuals: Jerry Kaufman at [email protected] or Deanna Glosser at [email protected]