Achieving sustainable urban agriculture / edited by Professor Johannes S. C. Wiskerke, Wageningen University, The Netherlands.
Series: Burleigh Dodds series in agricultural science ; number 77Publisher: Cambridge, UK ; Philadelphia, PA : Burleigh Dodds Science Publishing, 2020Description: xxxi, 375 pages : color illustrations, color map ; 24 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781786763167
- 670.
- S494.5.U72 A35 2020
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Part 1. Establishing urban agriculture -- 1. The role of urban agriculture in mitigating climate change and improving food and nutrition security -- 2. Creating a public policy framework to support urban agriculture -- 3. Planning and design for urban agriculture -- 4. Business models for urban agriculture -- Part 2. Building urban agriculture networks -- 5. Building food supply chains and markets to support peri-urban agriculture -- 6. Building communities/social networks for urban agriculture -- 7. Building continuous productive (peri-) urban landscapes 8. Building natural resource networks: urban agriculture and the circular economy -- Part 3. Technologies for urban agriculture 9. Rooftop systems for urban agriculture -- 10. Vertical farming systems for urban agriculture -- 11. Irrigation/water management systems for urban agriculture -- 12. Waste management for urban agriculture -- 13. Composting/soil nutrition for urban agriculture -- 14. Pest management for urban agriculture -- Part 4. Product case studies -- 15. Optimising horticulture for urban agriculture -- 16. Optimising livestock production in urban agriculture -- 17. Optimising aquaculture in urban agriculture -- 18. Optimising beekeeping in urban agriculture -- 19. Optimising urban forestry.
"This collection reviews key recent research on developing urban and per-urban agriculture. Chapters first discuss ways of building urban agriculture, from planning and business models to building social networks to support local supply chains. Other chapters survey developments in key technologies for urban agriculture, including rooftop systems and vertical farming. The book also assesses challenges and improvements in irrigation, waste management, composting/soil nutrition and pest management. The final group of chapters provides a series of case studies on urban farming of particular commodities, including horticultural produce, livestock and forestry"-- Provided by publisher.
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