Daniel Keech
Biographic Data
| ID | 888510 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Daniel Keech |
| GIVEN NAMES | Daniel |
| FAMILY NAME | Keech |
| SIGNATURE | KEECH D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Gloucestershire |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4112-9030 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 24 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Local authorities' capacity to advance climate action in the food and farming sectors
The mitigation measures needed in the face of climate change require transformation in the production and consumption of food. This paper examines local authorities' role in driving practical transformation in the food and farming sectors at the local level, reflecting on the complexity of these sectors and the implications for the effective sub‐national delivery of climate goals. A policy review identified food and farming‐related actions occurr…
Dynamic food procurement and cross-sectoral tensions: The practical and contractual complexities of digitizing local school food supply
Localising school food procurement has been the subject of international scholarship for several decades, including in the UK, where examples of isolated good practice have emerged. The benefits of local school food are based on three key potentials - sustainable food system transformation, the special market agency of public authorities, and the cultural benefits of localising school meals. A new technological innovation called Dynamic Food Proc…
Local Landscapes of Hope in Darién and Atacama: Material Narrations in the Anthropocene
Examinations of the Anthropocene include cross-disciplinary efforts with communities to contextualize climate challenges in places where extreme weather has become more common. This article contributes to such research in Darién in the Panamanian rainforest and Coyo in the Chilean Atacama Desert. These are both extreme landscapes defined by over-abundance and absence of water, respectively. Difficult environmental and social challenges lie ahead …
Lost in a haze or playing to partners’ strengths? Learning to collaborate in three transdisciplinary European Living Labs
The ability to learn from each other plays a central role in successful transdisciplinary (TD) collaboration. This article systematically investigates how learning to collaborate allows researchers and practitioners to navigate the challenges of collaborative TD work. Drawing on social learning theory, we emphasise the processual nature of social learning in TD research as learning to collaborate. We examine collaborative learning processes in th…
Continuity and Change: Socio-Spatial Practices in Bamberg's World Heritage Urban Horticulture
The German city of Bamberg offers lessons in how continuity and change interact within the context of the inner-urban land use of commercial horticulture, thereby informing sustainable urban transformations in historic cities. The case of Bamberg shows that urban food production is not just well-established, but a consistent and centuries-old cultural structure that influences the fabric of today’s city. In this article, we discuss what forms of …
Understanding rural–urban transitions in the Global South through peri-urban turbulence
The submersion and adaptation of routines in the Somerset Levels and Moors
The Somerset Levels and Moors comprise low-lying farmland in south-west England, prone to seasonal flooding. The area suffered uncommonly severe floods in 2012 and 2013/2014, triggering high-profile debates about the area’s long-term future. The article focuses on the experiences of the floods in one village, Muchelney. Drawing on mixed methods, this interdisciplinary study examines physical and social routines, and how these were disrupted, adap…
On epidemiological ruination
We live now ... in a time of ruination,” Brian Dillon wrote in the catalogue for a 2011 exhibition on ruins. The twenty-first century is already marked, he claimed, by recession and war, and “flourishing [with] images of catastrophe and decay”. Now, we witness the economic ruins of COVID-19: town centres and public spaces emptied; shops shuttered; workers ‘furloughed’. A week into lockdown, wild goats descended into Llandudno – a Welsh seaside re…
Culturalization and urban horticulture in two World Heritage cities
Horticulture features widely in research about urban agriculture. Interest is motivated by eco-technical challenges, such as improving household nutrition in expanding mega-cities, closing urban waste cycles through agricultural processes, and examining “SMART” potentials for the low-carbon production of fruits and vegetables. Studies also link participation in urban growing with political expressions of citizenship. These illuminations largely n…
Making the city smart from the grassroots up: The sustainable food networks of Bristol
Gardening cyberspace—social media and hybrid spaces in the creation of food citizenship in the Bristol city-region, UK
This paper conducts a detailed analysis of urban food and online networks in Bristol, UK. In particular, it examines social media postings of grass-roots food networks. Qualitative research identifies and analyses five core themes, from which two dominant discourses emerge. Analysis reinforces the multifunctional nature of city food but moves beyond dominant scholarly pre-occupations with nutrition and physical resources. Instead, the paper posit…
Bricolage for Self-Sufficiency: An Analysis of Alternative Food Networks
In this article the bricolage concept is applied to compare the organisational dynamics of two alternative food networks (AFNs) in Riga and Bristol respectively. It is argued that bricolage is a useful concept to understand the dynamics of AFNs. The concept 'bricolage' refers to the free use of any materials at hand. Bricoleurs accept that these materials might not be ideal, but nevertheless use them as long as they offer characteristics that hel…
Understanding rural–urban transitions in the Global South through peri-urban turbulence
Lost in a haze or playing to partners’ strengths? Learning to collaborate in three transdisciplinary European Living Labs
The ability to learn from each other plays a central role in successful transdisciplinary (TD) collaboration. This article systematically investigates how learning to collaborate allows researchers and practitioners to navigate the challenges of collaborative TD work. Drawing on social learning theory, we emphasise the processual nature of social learning in TD research as learning to collaborate. We examine collaborative learning processes in th…
Bricolage for Self-Sufficiency: An Analysis of Alternative Food Networks
In this article the bricolage concept is applied to compare the organisational dynamics of two alternative food networks (AFNs) in Riga and Bristol respectively. It is argued that bricolage is a useful concept to understand the dynamics of AFNs. The concept 'bricolage' refers to the free use of any materials at hand. Bricoleurs accept that these materials might not be ideal, but nevertheless use them as long as they offer characteristics that hel…
Culturalization and urban horticulture in two World Heritage cities
Horticulture features widely in research about urban agriculture. Interest is motivated by eco-technical challenges, such as improving household nutrition in expanding mega-cities, closing urban waste cycles through agricultural processes, and examining “SMART” potentials for the low-carbon production of fruits and vegetables. Studies also link participation in urban growing with political expressions of citizenship. These illuminations largely n…
Dynamic food procurement and cross-sectoral tensions: The practical and contractual complexities of digitizing local school food supply
Localising school food procurement has been the subject of international scholarship for several decades, including in the UK, where examples of isolated good practice have emerged. The benefits of local school food are based on three key potentials - sustainable food system transformation, the special market agency of public authorities, and the cultural benefits of localising school meals. A new technological innovation called Dynamic Food Proc…
Gardening cyberspace—social media and hybrid spaces in the creation of food citizenship in the Bristol city-region, UK
This paper conducts a detailed analysis of urban food and online networks in Bristol, UK. In particular, it examines social media postings of grass-roots food networks. Qualitative research identifies and analyses five core themes, from which two dominant discourses emerge. Analysis reinforces the multifunctional nature of city food but moves beyond dominant scholarly pre-occupations with nutrition and physical resources. Instead, the paper posit…
Bricolage for Self-Sufficiency: An Analysis of Alternative Food Networks
In this article the bricolage concept is applied to compare the organisational dynamics of two alternative food networks (AFNs) in Riga and Bristol respectively. It is argued that bricolage is a useful concept to understand the dynamics of AFNs. The concept 'bricolage' refers to the free use of any materials at hand. Bricoleurs accept that these materials might not be ideal, but nevertheless use them as long as they offer characteristics that hel…
Making the city smart from the grassroots up: The sustainable food networks of Bristol
Gardening cyberspace—social media and hybrid spaces in the creation of food citizenship in the Bristol city-region, UK
This paper conducts a detailed analysis of urban food and online networks in Bristol, UK. In particular, it examines social media postings of grass-roots food networks. Qualitative research identifies and analyses five core themes, from which two dominant discourses emerge. Analysis reinforces the multifunctional nature of city food but moves beyond dominant scholarly pre-occupations with nutrition and physical resources. Instead, the paper posit…
On epidemiological ruination
We live now ... in a time of ruination,” Brian Dillon wrote in the catalogue for a 2011 exhibition on ruins. The twenty-first century is already marked, he claimed, by recession and war, and “flourishing [with] images of catastrophe and decay”. Now, we witness the economic ruins of COVID-19: town centres and public spaces emptied; shops shuttered; workers ‘furloughed’. A week into lockdown, wild goats descended into Llandudno – a Welsh seaside re…
Culturalization and urban horticulture in two World Heritage cities
Horticulture features widely in research about urban agriculture. Interest is motivated by eco-technical challenges, such as improving household nutrition in expanding mega-cities, closing urban waste cycles through agricultural processes, and examining “SMART” potentials for the low-carbon production of fruits and vegetables. Studies also link participation in urban growing with political expressions of citizenship. These illuminations largely n…
Continuity and Change: Socio-Spatial Practices in Bamberg's World Heritage Urban Horticulture
The German city of Bamberg offers lessons in how continuity and change interact within the context of the inner-urban land use of commercial horticulture, thereby informing sustainable urban transformations in historic cities. The case of Bamberg shows that urban food production is not just well-established, but a consistent and centuries-old cultural structure that influences the fabric of today’s city. In this article, we discuss what forms of …
Understanding rural–urban transitions in the Global South through peri-urban turbulence
The submersion and adaptation of routines in the Somerset Levels and Moors
The Somerset Levels and Moors comprise low-lying farmland in south-west England, prone to seasonal flooding. The area suffered uncommonly severe floods in 2012 and 2013/2014, triggering high-profile debates about the area’s long-term future. The article focuses on the experiences of the floods in one village, Muchelney. Drawing on mixed methods, this interdisciplinary study examines physical and social routines, and how these were disrupted, adap…
Lost in a haze or playing to partners’ strengths? Learning to collaborate in three transdisciplinary European Living Labs
The ability to learn from each other plays a central role in successful transdisciplinary (TD) collaboration. This article systematically investigates how learning to collaborate allows researchers and practitioners to navigate the challenges of collaborative TD work. Drawing on social learning theory, we emphasise the processual nature of social learning in TD research as learning to collaborate. We examine collaborative learning processes in th…
Local Landscapes of Hope in Darién and Atacama: Material Narrations in the Anthropocene
Examinations of the Anthropocene include cross-disciplinary efforts with communities to contextualize climate challenges in places where extreme weather has become more common. This article contributes to such research in Darién in the Panamanian rainforest and Coyo in the Chilean Atacama Desert. These are both extreme landscapes defined by over-abundance and absence of water, respectively. Difficult environmental and social challenges lie ahead …
Local authorities' capacity to advance climate action in the food and farming sectors
The mitigation measures needed in the face of climate change require transformation in the production and consumption of food. This paper examines local authorities' role in driving practical transformation in the food and farming sectors at the local level, reflecting on the complexity of these sectors and the implications for the effective sub‐national delivery of climate goals. A policy review identified food and farming‐related actions occurr…
Dynamic food procurement and cross-sectoral tensions: The practical and contractual complexities of digitizing local school food supply
Localising school food procurement has been the subject of international scholarship for several decades, including in the UK, where examples of isolated good practice have emerged. The benefits of local school food are based on three key potentials - sustainable food system transformation, the special market agency of public authorities, and the cultural benefits of localising school meals. A new technological innovation called Dynamic Food Proc…
Geography (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Urban Agriculture and Sustainability (6 works) · Organic Food and Agriculture (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Agriculture (4 works) · Business (4 works) · Engineering (4 works) · Archaeology (3 works) · Economics (3 works)