Urban sustainability and food security remain pressing issues for cities across the world. Here, we argue that adapting rewilding to urban contexts unlocks new solutions for societal challenges. Rewilding is an established paradigm in ecological restoration, with the goal of restoring autonomous biotic and abiotic agents and processes. However, urban rewilding is an emerging but under-studied phenomenon that calls for multispecies coexistence and agency. Coupled with multispecies sustainability, urban rewilding can increase the operational autonomy of urban inhabitants through shared human-nonhuman co-stewardship of urban space. In this viewpoint paper, we explore the conceptual implications of rewilding for food security and land use planning across scales and infrastructures in urban settings. We then discuss how urban rewilding would particularly benefit food security across diverse urban contexts and examine some examples.

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城市再野化促进可持续性和粮食安全


城市可持续性和粮食安全仍然是世界各地城市面临的紧迫问题。在这里，我们认为，使再野化适应城市环境可以为社会挑战解锁新的解决方案。再野化是生态恢复的既定范式，其目标是恢复自主的生物和非生物媒介和过程。然而，城市再野化是一种新兴但研究不足的现象，它需要多物种共存和能动性。再野化与多物种可持续性相结合，可以通过人类与非人类共同管理城市空间来提高城市居民的运营自主性。在这篇观点论文中，我们探讨了再野化对城市环境中不同规模和基础设施的粮食安全和土地利用规划的概念意义。然后，我们讨论了城市再野化如何特别有利于不同城市环境中的粮食安全，并研究了一些例子。