Sowing Seeds in the City
. Ed(S): Brown, Sally; McIvor, Kristen; Snyder, Elizabeth Hodges
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Hardback. Editor(s): Brown, Sally; McIvor, Kristen; Snyder, Elizabeth Hodges. Num Pages: 423 pages, 156 black & white illustrations, 10 colour illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: JFSG; PSAF; RNU; TVB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 27. Weight in Grams: 848.
Urban agriculture has the potential to change our food systems, enhance habitat in our cities, and to morph urban areas into regions that maximize rather than disrupt ecosystem services. The potential impacts of urban agriculture on a range of ecosystem services including soil and water conservation, waste recycling, climate change mitigation, habitat, and food production is only beginning to be recognized. Those impacts are the focus of this book. Growing food in cities can range from a tomato plant on a terrace to a commercial farm on an abandoned industrial site. Understanding the benefits of these activities across scales will ... Read more
Urban agriculture has the potential to change our food systems, enhance habitat in our cities, and to morph urban areas into regions that maximize rather than disrupt ecosystem services. The potential impacts of urban agriculture on a range of ecosystem services including soil and water conservation, waste recycling, climate change mitigation, habitat, and food production is only beginning to be recognized. Those impacts are the focus of this book. Growing food in cities can range from a tomato plant on a terrace to a commercial farm on an abandoned industrial site. Understanding the benefits of these activities across scales will ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Springer Netherlands
Number of pages
423
Condition
New
Number of Pages
407
Place of Publication
Dordrecht, Netherlands
ISBN
9789401774512
SKU
V9789401774512
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 15 to 20 working days
Ref
99-3
About . Ed(S): Brown, Sally; McIvor, Kristen; Snyder, Elizabeth Hodges
Sally L Brown is a Research Associate Professor at the University of Washington School of Forest and Environmental Science. She is a Fellow in the Soil Science Society of America, was a two- term member of the National Academy of Science Standing Committee on Soil Science and a member on the National Academy of Science Committee on the Bioavailability of ... Read more
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