Sowing Seeds in the City

Sowing Seeds in the City
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Publisher : Springer
Total Pages : 402
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ISBN-10 : 9789401774536
ISBN-13 : 9401774536
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Book Synopsis Sowing Seeds in the City by : Sally Brown

Download or read book Sowing Seeds in the City written by Sally Brown and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-04-25 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.


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