Urban Agriculture – serie
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29 produkter
Participatory Design and Self-building in Shared Urban Open Spaces
Community Gardens and Casitas in New York City
Av Carolin Mees
Häftad, 2018
1423 kr
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The book investigates the development of community gardens with self-built structures, which have existed as a shared public open space land use form in New York City’s low-come neighborhoods like the South Bronx since the 1970s. These gardens have continued to be part of the urban landscape until …
Designing Urban Food Policies
Concepts and Approaches
Av Caroline Brand, Nicolas Bricas m. fl.
Inbunden, 2019
551 kr
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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 …
Designing Urban Food Policies
Concepts and Approaches
Av Caroline Brand, Nicolas Bricas m. fl.
Häftad, 2020
551 kr
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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 …
AgriCultura
Urban Agriculture and the Heritage Potential of Agrarian Landscape
Av Lionella Scazzosi, Paola Branduini
Inbunden, 2020
1802 kr
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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, …
AgriCultura
Urban Agriculture and the Heritage Potential of Agrarian Landscape
Av Lionella Scazzosi, Paola Branduini
Häftad, 2021
1802 kr
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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, …
Research Approaches in Urban Agriculture and Community Contexts
Av Levon T. Esters, Amie Patchen m. fl.
Inbunden, 2021
2185 kr
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This book will fill a void in the literature around research and program design and the impact of such experiences on learning outcomes within urban agricultural contexts. In particular, this book will cover topics such as STEM integration, science learning, student engagement, learning gardens and …
Research Approaches in Urban Agriculture and Community Contexts
Av Levon T. Esters, Amie Patchen m. fl.
Häftad, 2022
2185 kr
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This book will fill a void in the literature around research and program design and the impact of such experiences on learning outcomes within urban agricultural contexts. In particular, this book will cover topics such as STEM integration, science learning, student engagement, learning gardens and …
Teaching and Learning in Urban Agricultural Community Contexts
Av Isha DeCoito, Amie Patchen m. fl.
Inbunden, 2021
2185 kr
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This book fills a void in the literature around how urban agricultural education can be used to create opportunities to educate youth and citizens who live in urban areas about growing food. To date, very little has been written about program design and the impact of such experiences on learning …
Teaching and Learning in Urban Agricultural Community Contexts
Av Isha DeCoito, Amie Patchen m. fl.
Häftad, 2022
2185 kr
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This book fills a void in the literature around how urban agricultural education can be used to create opportunities to educate youth and citizens who live in urban areas about growing food. To date, very little has been written about program design and the impact of such experiences on learning …
Urban Agriculture for Improving the Quality of Life
Examples from Bulgaria
Av Dona Pickard
Inbunden, 2022
878 kr
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This book presents the findings of a multidisciplinary study on the effects of urban agriculture (UA) on the social, economic and environmental aspects of the quality of life in Sofia - the capital of Bulgaria. The analyses are based on a sociological survey representative of 3 districts of Sofia …
Urban Agriculture for Improving the Quality of Life
Examples from Bulgaria
Av Dona Pickard
Häftad, 2023
878 kr
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This book presents the findings of a multidisciplinary study on the effects of urban agriculture (UA) on the social, economic and environmental aspects of the quality of life in Sofia - the capital of Bulgaria. The analyses are based on a sociological survey representative of 3 districts of Sofia …
Small Scale Soil-less Urban Agriculture in Europe
Inbunden, 2022
1423 kr
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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 …
Small Scale Soil-less Urban Agriculture in Europe
Häftad, 2023
1423 kr
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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 …
Hybrid Governance of Urban Food Movements
Learning from Toronto and Brussels
Inbunden, 2022
1532 kr
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Undertaking a journey into the “hybrid governance” of urban food movements, this book offers an original and nuanced analysis of the urban milieu as epicentre of food activism and food governance. Through examples of food movements in the city-regions of Toronto and Brussels, the author highlights …
Hybrid Governance of Urban Food Movements
Learning from Toronto and Brussels
Häftad, 2023
1532 kr
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Undertaking a journey into the “hybrid governance” of urban food movements, this book offers an original and nuanced analysis of the urban milieu as epicentre of food activism and food governance. Through examples of food movements in the city-regions of Toronto and Brussels, the author highlights …
Planning for Equitable Urban Agriculture in the United States
Future Directions for a New Ethic in City Building
Av Samina Raja, Marcia Caton Campbell m. fl.
Inbunden, 2024
552 kr
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This open access book, building on the legacy of food systems scholar and advocate, Jerome Kaufman, examines the potential and pitfalls of planning for urban agriculture (UA) in the United States, especially in how questions of ethics and equity are addressed. The book is organized into six …
Planning for Equitable Urban Agriculture in the United States
Future Directions for a New Ethic in City Building
Av Samina Raja, Marcia Caton Campbell m. fl.
Häftad, 2025
443 kr
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This open access book, building on the legacy of food systems scholar and advocate, Jerome Kaufman, examines the potential and pitfalls of planning for urban agriculture (UA) in the United States, especially in how questions of ethics and equity are addressed. The book is organized into six …
Farming and Social Inclusion in Japan
From Welfare-to-work to Delight
Inbunden, 2025
552 kr
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This open access book is about a recent movement toward the “partnership between agriculture and social welfare” in Japan, which has been based on the idea that the shorthanded agricultural sector offers job opportunities to the people excluded from the existing labor market. The question “why …
Informal Urban Agriculture
The Secret Lives of Guerrilla Gardeners
Av Michael Hardman, Peter J. Larkham
Inbunden, 2014
1096 kr
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The book explores how unused and under-used urban spaces – from grass verges, roundabouts, green spaces – have been made more visually interesting and more productive, by informal (and usually illegal) groups known as “guerrilla gardeners”. The book focuses on groups in the English Midlands but the …
Family Urban Agriculture in Russia
Lessons and Prospects
Av Louiza M. Boukharaeva, Marcel Marloie
Inbunden, 2015
1096 kr
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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 …
Farming on the Fringe
Peri-Urban Agriculture, Cultural Diversity and Sustainability in Sydney
Av Sarah James
Inbunden, 2016
1096 kr
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This volume offers a new perspective to debates on local food and urban sustainability presenting the long silenced voices of the small-scale farmers from the productive green fringe of Sydney’s sprawling urban jungle. Providing fresh food for the city and local employment, these culturally and …
Informal Urban Agriculture
The Secret Lives of Guerrilla Gardeners
Av Michael Hardman, Peter J. Larkham
Häftad, 2016
1096 kr
Lägg i varukorg
The book explores how unused and under-used urban spaces – from grass verges, roundabouts, green spaces – have been made more visually interesting and more productive, by informal (and usually illegal) groups known as “guerrilla gardeners”. The book focuses on groups in the English Midlands but the …
Family Urban Agriculture in Russia
Lessons and Prospects
Av Louiza M. Boukharaeva, Marcel Marloie
Häftad, 2016
1096 kr
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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 …
Rooftop Urban Agriculture
Av Francesco Orsini, Marielle Dubbeling m. fl.
Inbunden, 2017
2403 kr
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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 …
Toward Sustainable Relations Between Agriculture and the City
Av Christophe-Toussaint Soulard, Coline Perrin m. fl.
Inbunden, 2018
1858 kr
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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 …
Participatory Design and Self-building in Shared Urban Open Spaces
Community Gardens and Casitas in New York City
Av Carolin Mees
Inbunden, 2018
1967 kr
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The book investigates the development of community gardens with self-built structures, which have existed as a shared public open space land use form in New York City’s low-come neighborhoods like the South Bronx since the 1970s. These gardens have continued to be part of the urban landscape until …
Farming on the Fringe
Peri-Urban Agriculture, Cultural Diversity and Sustainability in Sydney
Av Sarah James
Häftad, 2018
1096 kr
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This volume offers a new perspective to debates on local food and urban sustainability presenting the long silenced voices of the small-scale farmers from the productive green fringe of Sydney’s sprawling urban jungle. Providing fresh food for the city and local employment, these culturally and …
Rooftop Urban Agriculture
Av Francesco Orsini, Marielle Dubbeling m. fl.
Häftad, 2018
2403 kr
Lägg i varukorg
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 …
Toward Sustainable Relations Between Agriculture and the City
Av Christophe-Toussaint Soulard, Coline Perrin m. fl.
Häftad, 2019
1314 kr
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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 …
