Urban agriculture and community values : the green transformation of cities / Lisa Newton.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Newton, Lisa H., 1939- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Urban agriculture.

Sustainable agriculture.

Physical Description:

xiii, 158 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Cham : Springer, [2020]

Summary:

This book addresses the evolving crisis in agriculture and sketches the 'community economy' that grounds agricultural enterprise more accurately than the industrial model. In its current practice, agriculture is (in the United States but increasingly in the rest of the world) unsustainable and destructive. The most immediately unsustainable feature of industrial agriculture is its dependence on the products of petroleum as feedstock for fertilizers, herbicides, and pesticides, and as fuel for the farm machinery and transport of agricultural products into the cities. The problems of agriculture and in general the food systems to which it is attached range from the vulnerability of monocultures to new and stronger pests to the emerging medical problem of obesity. The need for agricultural reform is widely acknowledged; one part of the new work being done suggests that food production in the cities may solve several of its problems at once. This book is suitable for both undergraduate and graduate students in agriculture and environmental studies.

Contents:

Part I. A tale of three cities

Havana, Cuba

Detroit, Michigan

Burlington, Vermont

A tale of many values : what can we learn from the cities?

Part II. Building the urban farm

Growing the city as a community

Commercial farming in (and around) the city

The farm in the sky

Reflections : retrieving the values

Postscript : an urban farm in process.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9783030392420

3030392422

OCLC:

1196209156

Publisher Number:

99984328097