Small Scale Soil Less Urban Agriculture In Europe

Author : Silvio Caputo
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2022-06-01
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9783030999629

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Small Scale Soil-less Urban Agriculture in Europe by Silvio Caputo Pdf

This Monograph focuses on the new approaches that urban agriculture offers to grow food in cities. The author paints a dynamic picture of soil-less and indoor techniques that are currently emerging. A growing number of small scale community-led and entrepreneurial initiatives are using such techniques for diverse objectives: to increase resource efficiency; to strengthen food security; to educate and inform or to exploit new market opportunities. The described studies demonstrate how technologies that are typically used in high-tech food production can also be harnessed in small projects to generate social and economic benefits at a local level. The author puts a focus on three aspects: to outline the context within which small scale soil-less urban agriculture is developing in Europe; to give an overview of the state-of-the-art of projects focusing on this area through case study analysis and to elaborate on emerging questions. Such questions include: is the use of soil-less urban agriculture changing the relationship with, and perception of, what is natural and sustainable for urban farmers and small enterprises working in this sector? What is the perceived potential of these soil-less and indoor forms of urban agriculture to meet environmental, social and economic goals? By answering these and other questions, the volume is a valuable resource for researchers in agriculture and sustainability, as well as urban farmers.

Author : Frank Lohrberg,Lilli Licka,Lionella Scazzosi,Axel Timpe
Publisher : Jovis Verlag GmbH
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Ecology
ISBN : 3868593713

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Urban Agriculture Europe by Frank Lohrberg,Lilli Licka,Lionella Scazzosi,Axel Timpe Pdf

"How can agriculture contribute to the sustainable development of European cities? How can agriculture and horticulture create vital urban spaces that have new social and ecological qualities and are also economically viable? Urban Agriculture Europe is the first comprehensive, transdisciplinary publication about urban agriculture in Europe. Apart from well-known examples of urban food gardens in Western European metropolises, this volume also studies innovative forms of periurban agriculture, bringing in experiences in Eastern and Southern Europe. The contributions approach urban agriculture from the point of view of social science, the economy, agricultural ecology, and spatial planning and address the role of citizens, involved parties, and politics, as well as operational models and planning tools. Case studies from Barcelona, Dublin, Geneva, Milan, Sofia, Warsaw, and the Ruhr Metropolis allow a comparative view of European practice. Statements from involved parties and guidance for cities and regions round off the publication."--Page 4 of cover.

Author : Chris Barrow
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 441 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2024-04-29
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781040010938

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Environmental Management by Chris Barrow Pdf

This comprehensively updated third edition explores the nature and role of environmental management and offers an introduction to this rapidly expanding and changing field. It focuses on challenges and opportunities, and core concepts including sustainable development. The book is divided into five parts: Part I (Introduction to Environmental Management): four introductory chapters cover the justification for environmental management, its theory, scope, goals and scientific background Part II (Practice): explores environmental management in economics, law and business and environmental management’s relation with environmentalism, international agreements and monitoring Part III (Global Challenges and Opportunities): examines resources, challenges and opportunities, both natural and human-caused or human-aggravated Part IV (Responses to Global Challenges and Opportunities): explores mitigation, vulnerability, resilience, adaptation and how technology, social change and politics affect responses to challenges Part V (The Future): the final chapter considers the way ahead for environmental management in the future. With its well-structured coverage, effective illustrations and foundation for further, more-focused interest, this book is easily accessible to all. It is an essential reference for undergraduates and postgraduates studying environmental management and sustainability, and an important resource for many students on courses including environmental science, environmental studies and human geography.

Author : Christophe-Toussaint Soulard,Coline Perrin,Elodie Valette
Publisher : Springer
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2018-01-30
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9783319710372

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Toward Sustainable Relations Between Agriculture and the City by Christophe-Toussaint Soulard,Coline Perrin,Elodie Valette Pdf

This book gives an overview of frameworks, methods, and case studies useful for the analysis of the relations between agriculture and the city, in Europe and the Mediterranean. Its originality lies in the analysis of urban food systems sustainability from an actors’ perspective. All the chapters consider the key role of actors in the definition of innovations and pathways, which enhance sustainability, seen as an ongoing process. Part 1 presents systemic approaches of agricultural-urban interactions at the city-region scale in France, Egypt, Italy and Morocco. Part 2 deals with methods and tools for urban planning and local development, utilized to design and assess sustainable food systems. The Part 3 inventories the recent changes in urban agriculture and the new forms of governance which are emerging in European cities (Athens, Berlin, Lisbon, Montpellier, Paris and Zurich). These results are useful for students, academics and activists involved in local policies and projects.

Author : Ray C. Anderson,Louis Kotzé,Stephen Morse
Publisher : Berkshire Publishing Group
Page : 413 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2012-10-31
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781933782744

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Berkshire Encyclopedia of Sustainability 9/10 by Ray C. Anderson,Louis Kotzé,Stephen Morse Pdf

Afro-Eurasia: Assessing Sustainability focuses on the geographic area where humans originated and first began to make use of the natural world - Earth's largest landmass, stretching from Portugal in the west across the steppes of Russia and south across Africa to the Cape of Good Hope. By examining the history of human expansion, as well as 21st century pressures to address ecosystem damage across the region, international scholars and regional experts weave sustainability into core curricular subjects. The interdisciplinary coverage includes national and regional environmental histories, as well as business and commerce, migration, educational institutions, law and government, and the lifestyles of diverse populations.

Author : Louiza M. Boukharaeva,Marcel Marloie
Publisher : Springer
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2015-02-27
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9783319116143

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Family Urban Agriculture in Russia by Louiza M. Boukharaeva,Marcel Marloie Pdf

The book results from research carried out by the authors since 1999 on urban gardening collectives in Russia, then from the extension of this research towards collective urban gardening in France, with some investigations in other European Union Member States and Brazil. This research was carried out within the framework of Kazan University (currently, the Institute of Administration and Territorial Development of the Federal University of Kazan) and the French National Institute for Agricultural Research (INRA). It enabled the creation of an international research network entitled Sustainable Development of Cities: the Relationship between City-Dwellers and Nature. This research was developed with help from a three-year research contract (October 2009 – September 2012) with the GESSOL programme of the French Ministry of Ecology, on the theme of the use of urban and peri-urban soils for the sustainable development of cities. The final report of this research contract provides the basis for the book.

Author : Aileen Robertson
Publisher : WHO Regional Office Europe
Page : 405 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2004-01-28
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9789289013635

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Food and Health in Europe by Aileen Robertson Pdf

Poor nutrition, foodborne disease and lack of secure access to good food make an important contribution to the burden of disease and mortality in the WHO European Region. Better diets, food safety and food security will not only reduce or prevent suffering to individuals and societies but also help cut costs to health care systems and bring social and economic benefits to countries. People's chances for a healthy diet depend less on individual choices than on what food is available and whether it is affordable. Policies to benefit health through good food and nutrition must extend beyond the health sector to include sectors ranging from agriculture and food processing, manufacturing and trade to transport, retailing, catering and advertising. Food and nutrition policies should be coordinated so that public health is given due priority in the making of food policies by non-health sectors. This publication discusses in depth the components of food and nutrition policies and the evicence of supporting them. It higlights the urgent need for integrated, multisectoral food and nutrition policies to encourage the sustainable production of food, its safety and the provision of food of high nutritional quality for all. [Editor]

Author : Caroline Brand,Nicolas Bricas,Damien Conaré,Benoit Daviron,Julie Debru,Laura Michel,Christophe-Toussaint Soulard
Publisher : Springer
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2019-07-17
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9783030139582

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Designing Urban Food Policies by Caroline Brand,Nicolas Bricas,Damien Conaré,Benoit Daviron,Julie Debru,Laura Michel,Christophe-Toussaint Soulard Pdf

This Open Access book is for scientists and experts who work on urban food policies. It provides a conceptual framework for understanding the urban food system sustainability and how it can be tackled by local governments. Written by a collective of researchers, this book describes the existing conceptual frameworks for an analysis of urban food policies, at the crossroads of the concepts of food system and sustainable city. It provides a basis for identifying research questions related to urban local government initiatives in the North and South. It is the result of work carried out within Agropolis International within the framework of the Sustainable Urban Food Systems program and an action research carried out in support of Montpellier Méditerranée Métropole for the construction of its agroecological and food policy.

Author : Erich Landsteiner,Tim Soens
Publisher : StudienVerlag
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2020-04-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9783706560573

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Farming the City by Erich Landsteiner,Tim Soens Pdf

THE RESILIENCE AND DECLINE OF URBAN AGRICULTURE IN EUROPEAN HISTORY Urban agriculture is a highly diversified and multi-layered phenomenon, and its roots are both very old and very recent. Throughout European history, it has appeared in different forms and guises. In some periods and regions, urban agriculture seemes to have declined at an early stage, whereas in others urban economies and societies remained firmly based on more or less specialized and commercialized agrarian production until the recent past. At the beginning of the 21st century, in an urban world characterized by globalizing food markets, social polarization, but also increasing food insecurity, it is again rapidly gaining importance. Citizens practice urban agriculture in a combined effort to diversify their food supplies, shorten the food chain and strengthen community life. In order to understand the organization, the resilience and failure of urban agriculture in different contexts, this volume aims to develop a comparative and long-term approach, with a particular focus on the actors involved in urban agriculture, their income strategies, and the social and economic configurations in which they operate. RESILIENZ UND NIEDERGANG DER STÄDTISCHEN LANDWIRTSCHAFT IN DER EUROPÄISCHEN GESCHICHTE Die urbane Landwirtschaft ist ein vielschichtiges Phänomen, dessen Wurzeln unterschiedlich weit in der europäischen Geschichte zurückreichen. In einigen Regionen schien die städtische Landwirtschaft in einem frühen Stadium nachzulassen, in anderen beruhte die städtische Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft bis in die jüngste Vergangenheit fest auf einer mehr oder weniger spezialisierten und kommerzialisierten Agrarproduktion. Zu Beginn des 21. Jahrhunderts gewinnt sie in einer von globalisierten Lebensmittelmärkten, sozialer Polarisierung, aber auch zunehmender Ernährungsunsicherheit geprägten urbanen Welt wieder rasant an Bedeutung: StädterInnen betreiben Landwirtschaft in einem gemeinsamen Bemühen, ihre Lebensmittelversorgung zu diversifizieren, die Produktionsketten zu verkürzen und das Gemeinschaftsleben zu stärken. Um die Organisation, die Resilienz und das Scheitern der städtischen Landwirtschaft in verschiedenen Kontexten zu verstehen, zielt dieser Band darauf ab, einen vergleichenden und langfristigen Ansatz zu entwickeln. Dabei stehen die Akteure der städtischen Landwirtschaft, ihre Einkommensstrategien und die sozialen und ökonomischen Bedingungen, in denen sie arbeiten, im Mittelpunkt.

Author : Luc J. A. Mougeot,International Development Research Centre (Canada)
Publisher : IDRC
Page : 119 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781552502266

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Growing Better Cities by Luc J. A. Mougeot,International Development Research Centre (Canada) Pdf

Accompanying CD-ROM also has titles in French and Spanish.

Author : Jac Smit,Annu Ratta,Joe Nasr
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Food supply
ISBN : UOM:49015002781236

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Urban Agriculture by Jac Smit,Annu Ratta,Joe Nasr Pdf

Author : Rob Roggema
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2016-08-12
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781317293798

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Sustainable Urban Agriculture and Food Planning by Rob Roggema Pdf

As urban populations rise rapidly and concerns about food security increase, interest in urban agriculture has been renewed in both developed and developing countries. This book focuses on the sustainable development of urban agriculture and its relationship to food planning in cities. It brings together the best revised and updated papers from the Sixth Association of European Schools of Planning (AESOP) conference on Sustainable Food Planning. The main emphasis is on the latest research and thinking on spatial planning and design, showing how urban agriculture provides opportunities to develop and enhance the spatial quality of urban environments. Chapters address various topics such as a new theoretical model for understanding urban agriculture, how urban agriculture contributes to restoring our connections to nature, and the limitations of the garden city concept to food security. Case studies are included from several European countries, including Bulgaria, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Romania, Spain, Turkey and the UK, as well as Australia, Canada, Cameroon, Ethiopia and the United States (New York and Los Angeles).

Author : Francesco Orsini,Marielle Dubbeling,Henk de Zeeuw,Giorgio Gianquinto
Publisher : Springer
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2017-11-16
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9783319577203

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Rooftop Urban Agriculture by Francesco Orsini,Marielle Dubbeling,Henk de Zeeuw,Giorgio Gianquinto Pdf

This book guides architects, landscape designers, urban planners, agronomists and society on the implementation of sustainable rooftop farming projects. The interdisciplinary team of authors involved stresses the different approaches and the multi-faceted forms that rooftop farming may assume in any context. While rooftop farming experiences are sprouting all over the world the need for scientific evidence on the most suitable growing solutions, policies and potential benefits emerges. This volume brings together existing experiences as well as suggestions for planning future sustainable cities.

Author : Lionella Scazzosi,Paola Branduini
Publisher : Springer
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2020-09-03
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 3030490114

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AgriCultura by Lionella Scazzosi,Paola Branduini Pdf

This book explains how cultural heritage can be a tool for enhancing urban agriculture and improving landscape and life quality. It cuts across the existing literature and fills the gaps between urban agriculture, considered as a food, social and environmental opportunity and cultural heritage, considered as resource. It focuses the role of the countryside for urban areas, in the history of the city and today. Its attention is on the quality for all areas, both outstanding, ordinary and degraded, as well as large, little or fragmented (European landscape convention 2000). It considers agricultural landscape as a system of tangible and intangible heritage components and relationships, to be retained, enhanced and transmit, in a process of inevitable but appropriate dynamic conservation and management over time (ICOMOS-IFLA Principles 2017). This book can benefit the collaboration among local players – such as farmers, citizens, associations, public institutions, stakeholders – in conserving and enhancing agrarian heritage and reinforcing the identity of places and people. It can strengthen collective action and generate positive effects on good large and local -scale management. The first part has a methodological character in order to enlighten the integrated approach between cultural heritage and urban agriculture. The second part exemplifies cases where the heritage has been recognised but not yet translated into concrete action. The third Part discloses ongoing process of co-construction, where policies have recognized the cultural, environmental and social meaning of urban agriculture as heritage. This book aims to reach scholars, local administrations, professionals, farmers and citizens. It involves many authors, many of whom are directly engaged with action-research in safeguarding and implementing the mutual interaction between urban agriculture activities and agrarian heritage.

Author : Gregory McIsaac,William R. Edwards
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Agricultural ecology
ISBN : 0252021002

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Sustainable Agriculture in the American Midwest by Gregory McIsaac,William R. Edwards Pdf

This timely collection provides a general overview and detailed discussion of social and technical issues related to moving toward a culture and practice of sustainable agriculture in the American Midwest. It develops the concept that because agriculture does not exist in isolation, sustainability must be understood within the context of the many dynamic natural and social systems characteristic of a particular region - from climate to culture. Scholars from diverse disciplines - ecology, geography, economics, agricultural engineering, anthropology, entomology, climatology - provide the historical and contemporary context for this vital discussion.