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Urban agriculture in Mexico City; balancing between ecological, economic, social and symbolic value
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In this paper, the authors present urban agriculture as a practice that is gaining attention in many cities worldwide, and focus in particular on the experiences in Mexico City, and analyze current practices in the periurban, suburban and interurban parts of Mexico City.About:
This article is published in Journal of Cleaner Production.The article was published on 2017-10-01. It has received 80 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Urban agriculture & Food security.read more
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Urban agriculture, a tool towards more resilient urban communities?
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discuss the risks and addresses the potential of urban agriculture for more sustainable and resilient cities, and propose new education, participatory and citizenship strategies for urban agriculture.
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Evaluation and analysis of ecological security in arid areas of Central Asia based on the emergy ecological footprint (EEF) model
TL;DR: In this article, the modified emergy ecological footprint (EEF) model was applied to optimize the traditional ecological footprint model by analyzing and evaluating the ecological security of Central Asia during the time frame of 1992-2014.
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Global changes in urban vegetation cover
TL;DR: Google Earth Engine is used to map vegetation cover in all urban areas larger than 15 km2 in 2000 and 2015, suggesting that the observed net increases were driven by the capture of rural ecosystems through low-density suburban sprawl.
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Searching for the entrepreneurs among new entrants in European Agriculture:: the role of human and social capital
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the drivers for entrepreneurialism among 1,877 new entrants in Europe, in particular the effect of human and social capital on new business opportunity identification once they have started their farming activity.
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The role of green roofs in urban Water-Energy-Food-Ecosystem nexus: A review.
TL;DR: This paper offers a review of benefits and limitations of green roofs, with a focus on multilayer ones, within a Water-Energy-Food-Ecosystem nexus context, and highlights how the installation of traditional and multilayers green roofs in urban areas contributes to the Development Goals defined by the 2030 Sustainable Agenda.
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Resilient Cities: Responding to Peak Oil and Climate Change
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present four possible outcomes for cities: "collapse," "ruralized," "divided," and "resilient" in response to their scenarios, they articulate how a new sustainable urbanism could replace today's carbon-consuming urbanism.
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City Bountiful: A Century of Community Gardening in America
TL;DR: The Goodness of Gardening: Gardens as Civic Improvement Part II. Garden Patches in American Cities Part I. List of Illustrations List of Tables Preface and Acknowledgments Introduction as discussed by the authors.
Urban agriculture: definition, presence, potentials and risks.
TL;DR: The first French geographical accounts of (intraand peri-) urban agriculture (UA) were published on Central Africa in the 1960s, scattered and isolated UA surveys by individual social scientists (e.g. Egziabher et al. 1994) have gradually been giving way to institutional projects led by multidisciplinary teams as mentioned in this paper.
Urban agriculture and food security, nutrition and health.
TL;DR: The concept of food security has been on the international agenda as far back as 1948, when the Universal Declaration of Human Rights affirmed that “everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself and his family, including food,” and Article 11 of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights went further, in 1966, when it affirmed the right of everyone to be free from hunger.