New Forms of Urban Agriculture: An Urban Ecology Perspective

New Forms of Urban Agriculture: An Urban Ecology Perspective

Diehl, Jessica Ann; Kaur, Harpreet

Springer Verlag, Singapore

02/2022

346

Dura

Inglês

9789811637377

15 a 20 dias

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Chapter 1. Introduction: New Forms of Urban Agriculture Embedded in Urban Re-sources-Where is the Evidence?.- Chapter 2. Managing Land: Protecting, Integrating and Allocating Agriculture in Urban Design and Planning - The Case of Luxembourg.- Chapter 3. Mitigation of Urbanization Ill-effects Through Urban Agriculture Inclu-sion in Cities.- Chapter 4. Commercial Potential for Rooftop Farming in a Major City in China.- Chapter 5. Land Use Models, Drivers, Institutional Arrangements and Major Dis-courses in Promotion of Urban Agriculture in India.- Chapter 6. Protecting Peri-urban Agriculture: A Perspective from the Pacific Islands.- Chapter 7. Engineering Perspective of Water Use for Urban Agriculture.- Chapter 8. Evaluating Wastewater Reuse in Urban Agriculture from a Systems Per-spective: Focus on Linkages with Water, Energy, and Health.- Chapter 9. Frontier Agriculture: Climate-smart and Water-saving Agriculture Tech-nologies for Livelihoods and Food Security. Chapter 10. Food Security Achieved Through Utilising Waste Materials in Part of Durban and Rural Surrounds, South Africa.- Chapter 11. Contextualizing Urban Agriculture in Quito, Ecuador: A Look at Urban Production and Producer Traits.- Chapter 12. Blurring the Boundaries: How an Emerging Group of Urban-integrated Farmers in Singapore are Changing the Profile of Farm Labour.- Chapter 13. Assessing Ecosystem Services and Job Opportunities in Peri-urban Agri-culture Start-up Projects.- Chapter 14. Field Work: A Mixed-methods Social Network Analysis of Urban Farmers and Hired Laborers in Four Cities.- Chapter 15. Honey Bees, Wild Bees, and Beekeepers in Chicago's Community Gardens.- Chapter 16. The Rurban Elephant: Behavioural Ecology of Asian Elephants in Re-sponse to Large-scale Land Use Change in a Human-dominated Land-scape in Peri-urban Southern India.- Chapter 17. Role of New Forms of Urban Agriculture in Urban Biodiversity.- Chapter 18. Conclusion: The future of NFUA.
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Urban Agriculture;Land for Urban Agriculture;Growing in urban soil;Rooftop farming;Biodiversity in urban farms