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Urban Agriculture and City Sustainability II (Hardcover)
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Urban Agriculture and City Sustainability II (Hardcover)
Series: WIT Transactions on Ecology and the Environment, 243
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As urban populations continue to increase it is essential to
consider ways of reducing their impact in terms of the use of
natural resources, waste production and climate change. The
increasing number of people in cities requires new strategies to
supply the necessary food with limited provision of land and
decreasing resources. This will become more challenging unless
innovative solutions for growing and distributing food in urban
environments are considered. The scale of modern food production
has created and exacerbated many vulnerabilities and the feeding of
cities is now infinitely more complex. As such, the food system
cannot be considered secure, ethical or sustainable. In the last
few years, there has been a rapid expansion in initiatives and
projects exploring innovative methods and processes for sustainable
food production. The majority of these projects are focused on
providing alternative models that shift the power back from the
global food system to communities and farmers improving social
cohesion, health and wellbeing. It is therefore not surprising that
more people are looking towards urban farming initiatives as a
potential solution. These initiatives have demonstrated that urban
agriculture has the potential to transform our living environment
towards ecologically sustainable and healthy cities. Urban
agriculture can also contribute to energy, natural resources, land
and water savings, ecological diversity and urban management cost
reductions. The impact urban agriculture can have on the shape and
form of our cities has never been fully addressed. How cities embed
these new approaches and initiatives, as part of new urban
developments and a city regeneration strategy is critical. The 2nd
International Conference on Urban Agriculture and City
Sustainability addressed these challenges and the search for new
solutions. The presented papers which form this volume detail
research works looking at how urban agriculture can contribute to
achieving sustainable cities.
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