Urban Horticulture
Urban Horticulture

Author: Dilip Nandwani

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2018-05-19

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13: 3319670174

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This book provides comprehensive information on the rapidly developing field of urban horticulture for sustainable use of land resources and creating a better environment. It presents peer-reviewed chapters from leading international researchers in the field of horticulture technologies, environmental issues, urban horticulture, and landscaping and its role in society. It covers a wide array of topics on this subject and constitutes a valuable reference guide for students, professors, researchers, builders, and agriculturists concerned with urban horticulture, city planning, biodiversity, and the sustainable development of horticultural resources. Urban horticultural technologies facilitate the efficient use of available land in urban and residential areas, helping meet the demand for fresh fruits and vegetables to feed ever-growing urban populations. The amount of green space in urban areas is dwindling due to rising land prices, while the climbing numbers of multi-story buildings are producing various environmental and health issues. Technological advances provide tools and techniques for high-density and vertical cropping in small areas, promoting efficient and sustainable resource utilization. As such, urban horticulture is gaining importance in city planning – not only to bolster the food supply but also to improve the aesthetic value, environmental conditions, landscape, and business environment, while also reducing the consumption of fossil fuel in transportation.

Urban Horticulture - Sustainable Gardening in Cities
Urban Horticulture - Sustainable Gardening in Cities

Author: Burhanettin İmrak

Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand

Published: 2023-08-30

Total Pages: 188

ISBN-13: 1837694877

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The Edited Volume Urban Horticulture - Sustainable Gardening in Cities is a collection of reviewed and relevant research chapters, offering a comprehensive overview of recent developments in the field of urban horticulture. The book comprises single chapters authored by various researchers and edited by an expert active in the horticulture research area. All chapters are complete in themselves but united under a common research study topic. This publication aims at providing a thorough overview of the latest research efforts by international authors on urban horticulture and sustainable gardening in cities, and open new possible research paths for further novel developments.

Urban Horticulture
Urban Horticulture

Author: Shashank Shekhar Solankey

Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand

Published: 2020-06-17

Total Pages: 182

ISBN-13: 1838805125

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Urban horticulture is a means of utilizing every little space available in cities amidst buildings and other constructions for growing plants. It utilizes this space to raise gardens that can be economically productive while contributing to environmental greening. It can boost food and ornamental plants production, provide job opportunities, promote green space development, waste recycling, and urban landscaping, and result in improved environment. This book covers a wide array of topics on this subject and constitutes a valuable reference guide for students, professors, researchers, builders, and horticulturists concerned with urban horticulture, city planning, biodiversity, and the sustainable development of horticultural resources.

Urban Horticulture
Urban Horticulture

Author: J. Blum

Publisher: CRC Press

Published: 2017-03-03

Total Pages: 331

ISBN-13: 177188424X

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This title includes a number of Open Access chapters. Urban horticulture, referring to the study and cultivation of the relationship between plants and the urban environment, is gaining more attention as the world rapidly urbanizes and cities expand. While plants have been grown in urban areas for millennia, it is now recognized that they not only provide food, ornament, and recreation, but also supply invaluable ecological services that help mitigate potentially negative impacts of urban ecosystems, and thus increase the livability of cities. This book provides background on key issues in this growing field.

Imrak
Imrak

Author: Ali Küden

Publisher:

Published: 2023

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781837694884

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Public Gardens and Livable Cities
Public Gardens and Livable Cities

Author: Donald A. Rakow

Publisher: Cornell University Press

Published: 2020-11-15

Total Pages: 176

ISBN-13: 1501751778

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Public Gardens and Livable Cities changes the paradigm for how we conceive of the role of urban public gardens. Donald A. Rakow, Meghan Z. Gough, and Sharon A. Lee advocate for public gardens as community outreach agents that can, and should, partner with local organizations to support positive local agendas. Safe neighborhoods, quality science education, access to fresh and healthy foods, substantial training opportunities, and environmental health are the key initiative areas the authors explore as they highlight model successes and instructive failures that can guide future practices. Public Gardens and Livable Cities uses a prescriptive approach to synthesize a range of public, private, and nonprofit initiatives from municipalities throughout the country. In doing so, the authors examine the initiatives from a practical perspective to identify how they were implemented, their sustainability, the obstacles they encountered, the impact of the initiatives on their populations, and how they dealt with the communities' underlying social problems. By emphasizing the knowledge and skills that public gardens can bring to partnerships seeking to improve the quality of life in cities, this book offers a deeper understanding of the urban public garden as a key resource for sustainable community development.

Growing Greener Cities in Africa
Growing Greener Cities in Africa

Author: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations

Publisher: Food & Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO)

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 116

ISBN-13:

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The Second Global Plan of Action addresses new challenges, such as climate change and food insecurity, as well as novel opportunities, including information, communication and molecular methodologies. It contains 18 priority activities organized in four main groups: In situ conservation and management; Ex situ conservation; Sustainable use; and Building sustainable institutional and human capacities.

Transitions to Sustainability
Transitions to Sustainability

Author: François Mancebo

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2014-11-17

Total Pages: 167

ISBN-13: 9401795320

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This book calls for the conditions of transition to sustainability: How to take into consideration new global phenomena such as and of the dimension of climate change, the depletion of natural resources, financial crises, demographic dynamics, global urbanization, migrations and mobility, while bearing in mind short-term or local place-based issues, such as social justice or quality of life? Meeting this challenge requires an inclusive approach of sustainability. It is a matter of designing a new social contract: Sustainability requires more than developing the right markets, institutions and metrics, it requires social momentum. To do so, many issues need a clear and complete answer: How to link social justice with sustainability policies? What governance tools to do so? What linkage between one decision-making level and the other? These are major issues to design sound transitions to sustainability.

Horticultural Reviews, Volume 44
Horticultural Reviews, Volume 44

Author: Jules Janick

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2016-09-06

Total Pages: 512

ISBN-13: 1119281253

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Horticultural Reviews presents state-of-the-art reviews on topics in horticultural science and technology covering both basic and applied research. Topics covered include the horticulture of fruits, vegetables, nut crops, and ornamentals. These review articles, written by world authorities, bridge the gap between the specialized researcher and the broader community of horticultural scientists and teachers.