Achieving Sustainable Urban Agriculture
Achieving Sustainable Urban Agriculture
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Author(s): WISKERKE, Cofie
ISBN No.: 9781786763167
Pages: 408
Year: 202002
Format: Trade Cloth (Hard Cover)
Price: $ 269.10
Dispatch delay: Dispatched between 7 to 15 days
Status: Available

Part 1 Building urban agriculture networks 1.Creating a supportive public policy framework for urban agriculture: Johannes S. C. Wiskerke, Wageningen University, The Netherlands ; 2.The changing role of urban agriculture in municipal planning: from planning for urban agriculture to urban agriculture for planning: Nevin Cohen, City University of New York, USA ; 3.Urban agriculture and local communities: encouraging engagement, building cohesion, and linking to global agreements: Laine Young, Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada; and Alison Blay-Palmer, Wilfrid Laurier University and The Balsillie School of International Affairs, Canada ; 4.Building continuous productive (peri-)urban landscapes: André Viljoen and Katrin Bohn, University of Brighton, UK ; 5.Building natural resource networks: urban agriculture and the circular economy: Stefano Pascucci, University of Exeter, UK ; Part 2 Technologies for urban agriculture 6.


Rooftop systems for urban agriculture: Elisa Appolloni and Francesco Orsini, Bologna University, Italy; and Cecilia Stanghellini, Wageningen UR Greenhouse Horticulture, The Netherlands ; 7.Vertical farming systems for urban agriculture: Dickson Despommier, Columbia University, USA ; 8.Redirecting nutrients in urban waste to urban agriculture: Rosanne Wielemaker and Jan Weijma, Wageningen University, The Netherlands ; 9.Pest management for urban agriculture: Giovanni G. Bazzocchi, University of Bologna, Italy ; Part 3 Case studies 10.Optimizing horticulture for urban agriculture: B. W. Alsanius, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Sweden; M.


Jirström, Lund University, Sweden; M. T. Naznin and S. Khalil, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Sweden; and E.-C. Ekström, Uppsala University, Sweden ; 11.Optimizing livestock farming in urban agriculture: Delia Grace, International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), Kenya; Elizabeth Cook, International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), Kenya and University of Liverpool, UK; and Johanna Lindahl, International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), Kenya and Uppsala University and Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU), Sweden ; 12.Optimising aquaculture/aquaponics in urban agriculture: developing rooftop water farms: Anja Steglich, Grit Bürgow and Angela Million, Technical University of Berlin, Germany ; 13.


Optimizing urban beekeeping: Erik Stange, Norwegian Institute for Nature Research, Norway ; 14.Optimising urban forestry: the food connection: Cecil C. Konijnendijk and Hyeone Park, University of British Columbia, Canada ;.


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