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Sowing seeds in the city [electronic resource] : ecosystem and municipal services / Sally Brown, Kristen McIvor, Elizabeth Hodges Snyder, editors.

Brown, Sally, editor.; McIvor, Kristen, editor.; Snyder, Elizabeth Hodges, editor.
2016
S494.5.U72
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Title
Sowing seeds in the city [electronic resource] : ecosystem and municipal services / Sally Brown, Kristen McIvor, Elizabeth Hodges Snyder, editors.
ISBN
9789401774536 (electronic book)
9401774536 (electronic book)
9789401774512
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-7453-6
Published
Dordrecht : Springer, 2016.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xvi, 407 pages) : illustrations.
Item Number
10.1007/978-94-017-7453-6 doi
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S494.5.U72
Dewey Decimal Classification
630
Summary
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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Brown, Sally, editor.
McIvor, Kristen, editor.
Snyder, Elizabeth Hodges, editor.
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Preface
Chapter 1. Introduction: Ecosystem Services from Urban Agriculture in the City of the Future
Part I: Soil and Water Resources
Chapter 2: Soil Formation and Nutrient Cycling
Chapter 3: A Guide to Types of Non Potable Water and the Potential for Reuse in Urban Systems
Chapter 4: Graywater Reuse For Irrigation: Benefits and Potential Hazards
Chapter 5: Planting Abundance: Alternative Water Sources for Urban Farms
Part II: Ecosystem Services
Waste Treatment
Chapter 6: The Role of Organic Residuals in Urban Agriculture
Chapter 7: Municipal Food Waste Management Options: Climate and Economic Impacts
Chapter 8: Food Waste Composting in Seattle: The Political Perspective
Chapter 9: Cedar Grove Compost: Developing a Combined Food- Yard Waste Centralized Composting Program
Part III: Ecosystem Services
Climate Regulation
Chapter 10: Soils and Climate Change
Chapter 11: Soil Carbon Sequestration and Organic Wastes
Chapter 12: Lettuce to Reduce Greenhouse Gases: A Comparative Life Cycle Assessment of Conventional and Community Agriculture
Part IV: Ecosystem Services
Habitat
Chapter 13: Basics of Microbial Ecology and Function in Urban Agriculture
Chapter 14: Urban Microbiomes and Urban Agriculture: What Are The Connections and Why Should We Care?
Chapter 15: Wild Bees in Cultivated City Gardens
Chapter 16: Urban Agriculture as Habitat for Birds
Chapter 17: Improving the Suitability of Urban Farms for Wildlife
Part V: Ecosystem Services
Food Production
Chapter 18: How Much Can You Grow? Quantifying Yield in a Community Garden Plot: One Family's Experience
Chapter 19: Applying Permaculture in Alaska: The Williams Street Farmhouse
Chapter 20: Seed Libraries
Chapter 21: Recirculating Aquaculture Systems (RAS) and Aquaponics for Urban Food Production, with a Pictorial Guide to Aquaponics
Part VI: Integration into Municipal Infrastructure
Location Options
Chapter 22: Community Garden Basics
Chapter 23: Up on the Roof: Considerations for Food Production on Rooftops
Chapter 24: Brownfields as Sites for Urban Farms
Chapter 25: Curbside Gardens
Part VII: Integration into Municipal Infrastructure
Zoning and Legal Considerations
Chapter 26: Zoning and Urban Agriculture in Michigan
Chapter 27: Urban Agriculture in Portland, Oregon: 2002-2012
Chapter 28: Legalizing Commercial Agriculture in Boston: A Logical Step Towards Integrating Farming Into Urban Life.

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