Sowing Seeds In The City: Ecosystem And Municipal Services
by Sally Brown /
2016 / English / PDF
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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
help this movement flourish. Food can be grown in community
gardens, on roofs, in abandoned industrial sites and next to
sidewalks. The volume includes sections on where to grow food and
how to integrate agriculture into municipal zoning and legal
frameworks.
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
help this movement flourish. Food can be grown in community
gardens, on roofs, in abandoned industrial sites and next to
sidewalks. The volume includes sections on where to grow food and
how to integrate agriculture into municipal zoning and legal
frameworks.