New Forms of Urban Agriculture: An Urban Ecology Perspective

Jessica Ann Diehl (Editor) is Assistant Professor in the Department of Architecture at the National University of Singapore where she teaches geodesign and a community design studio addressing issues of urban food security in the Master of Landscape Architecture Programme. Research interests include place-based investigation of social networks, health equity, and alternative food systems. She holds a PhD in Health and Behavioral Sciences from the University of Colorado Denver, USA where she was a National Science Foundation (NSF) IGERT PhD Fellow in Sustainable Urban Infrastructure Systems and a 2013-2014 Fulbright-Nehru Research Fellow affiliated with the School of Human Ecology at Ambedkar University Delhi, India. She holds a BLA/MLA in landscape architecture from The Pennsylvania State University, and a BA in English with a concentration in creative writing from West Virginia Wesleyan College. Harpreet Kaur (Editor) Harpreet Kaur's research interest focuses on taking an ecological approach towards understanding functions and drivers within agroecosystems and applying this knowledge towards sustainable management of farming systems. At Agroparistech, she investigated the effects of agriculture on biogeochemical cycles at local and national scales. By quantifying how nutrients flow across various components of agricultural production, she seeks to evaluate the factors that lead to nutrient surpluses or losses. Her previous research work mainly focused on high altitude agriculture in the Indian Cold Desert. She holds a M.Phil in Environmental Sciences from the Jawarharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India, where she was a Senior Research Fellow funded by University Grants Commission, India.

“This book holds a pivotal role in shaping planned agricultural cities by strategically harnessing nature’s three vital resources: land, water, and labor. Detailed management strategies concerning water, labor, and land for urban agriculture are meticulously elaborated upon. The chapters dedicated to preserving biodiversity in urban settings are set to guide environmental scientists toward innovative perspectives.” (Prodipto Bishnu Angon, Journal of Agricultural, Biological, and Environmental Statistics, Vol. 29 (1), 2024)

• 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.