Urban and Regional Agriculture
eBook - ePub

Urban and Regional Agriculture

Building Resilient Food Systems

  1. 654 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Urban and Regional Agriculture

Building Resilient Food Systems

About this book

Urban and Regional Agriculture: Building Resilient Food Systems explores the sustainable integration of food provision, distribution and consumption through urban farms, agricultural systems, user communities and structural facilities designed to optimize food production and consumption. The book addresses the fundamental and pressing challenges of urban planning problems, waste minimization, food sourcing, access and equity issues, and multiple land use optimization. Sections cover the need and opportunities of urban agriculture, discuss tradition and transition, space and regulatory topics, explore the range of urban agriculture options (aquaculture to urban permaculture), discuss support structures and constructs of physically creating urban agricultural areas, and much more. Edited and authored by leading experts in the field, this volume will be valuable for those working to address issues of food security in urban environments. - Integrates agriculture and urban settings to improve food security - Examines relevant considerations, from development to the regulation of food system architectures - Provides regionally specific considerations to guide effective and efficient implementation

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Table of contents

  1. Urban and Regional Agriculture
  2. Cover
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright
  5. Contents
  6. About the authors
  7. Preface
  8. Chapter 1 Farming for a stable climate
  9. Chapter 2 Community-based urban agriculture for food justice
  10. Chapter 3 The role of food policy councils in supporting urban agriculture
  11. Chapter 4 A city for all who eat
  12. Chapter 5 Urbanā€“rural food system convergence as a vector for sustainable transformation
  13. Chapter 6 Cuba's agroecological revolution
  14. Chapter 7 From the Reformation to Garden Citiesā€“a Danish perspective on the development of urban agriculture in Europe
  15. Chapter 8 Nexus of urban gardening and social sustainability in European postsocialist cities
  16. Chapter 9 Access to and control over resources in urban agriculture in Tamale, Ghana
  17. Chapter 10 Intensive, informal, individual
  18. Chapter 11 The contribution of sustainable food system policies and initiatives for the Milan Metropolitan Area resilienceāˆ—āˆ— Although the chapter is the result of a common reflection, section Urban food policies and practices: characterizations and action domains has been written by Lorenza Sganzetta; and sections Milan rural-metropolitan area: roots and challenges, Food policies and practices in Milan, Milan 2030: integrating food policies in long term vision for resilient and sustainable Milan, and The contribution of sustainable urban food system and urban agriculture in sustainable and resilient metropolitan development by Angela Colucci. Section Urban Food Policies and Urban Agriculture is the result of common contribution.
  19. Chapter 12 Amplifying sustainable commercial urban agriculture in Sweden through the Stadsbruk method
  20. Chapter 13 Circular metropolis and local food strategy
  21. Chapter 14 Grown in the city
  22. Chapter 15 Urban integration of aquaponics
  23. Chapter 16 Translating unique agricultural precedents into public urban agriculture design
  24. Chapter 17 The ReciproCity
  25. Chapter 18 Commercial rooftop greenhouses
  26. Chapter 19 Indoor farms for tomorrow's cities
  27. Chapter 20 Peruvian hydroponics
  28. Chapter 21 Living architecture
  29. Index