Global urban agriculture / edited by Antoinette M.G.A. WinklerPrins.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

WinklerPrins, Antoinette M. G. A., editor.

C.A.B. International, issuing body.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Urban agriculture.

Physical Description:

1 online resource : illustrations, charts

Place of Publication:

Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK : CABI, [2017]

System Details:

text file

Summary:

The objective of this volume is to bring together research that focuses on productive cultivation in urban spaces from around the world and to place these empirics in a theoretical context to provide cohesion. Despite the seeming convergence in practice, the literatures on urban agriculture in the Global North (GN) and the Global South (GS) remain separated, with researchers working on case material in the GS and rarely referencing work on the GN, and vice versa. This volume intends to move towards greater interaction and engagement across this divide, as this will enrich both focus areas of inquiry. Contributors to this volume deal with urban agriculture from the theoretical perspectives of urban political ecology, critical urbanism and sustainable livelihoods. The book has 20 chapters and a subject index.

Contents:

Defining and Theorizing Global Urban Agriculture / Antoinette M.G.A. WinklerPrins

A View from the South: Bringing Critical Planning Theory to Urban Agriculture / Stephanie A. White and Michael W. Hamm

North American Urban Agriculture: Barriers and Benefits / Leslie Gray, Lucy Diekmann and Susan Algert

A Survey of Urban Community Gardeners in the USA / Tammy E. Parece and James B. Campbell

Gardens in the City: Community, Politics and Place in San Diego, California / Fernando J. Bosco and Pascale Joassart-Marcelli

Growing food is work: The Labour Challenges of Urban Agriculture in Houston, Texas / Sasha Broadstone and Christian Brannstrom

The Marketing of Vegetables in a Northern Ghanaian City: Implications and Trajectories / Imogen Bellwood-Howard and Eileen Bogweh Nchanji

Hunger for Justice: Building Sustainable and Equitable Communities in Massachusetts / Timothy F. LeDoux and Brian W. Conz

Sustainability's Incomplete Circles: Towards a Just Food Politics in Austin, Texas and Havana, Cuba / Jonathan T. Lowell and Sara Law

A Political Ecology of Community Gardens in Australia: From Local Issues to Global Lessons / Jason A. Byrne, Catherine M. Pickering, Daniela A. Guitart and Rebecca Sims-Castley

Urban Agriculture as Adaptive Capacity: An Example from Senegal / Stephanie A. White

Intersection and Material Flow in Open-space Urban Farms in Tanzania / Leslie McLees

Relying on Urban Gardens for Survival within the Building of a Modern City in Colombia / Colleen Hammelman

Regreening Kibera: How Urban Agriculture Changed the Physical and Social Environment of a Large Slum in Kenya / Courtney M. Gallaher

Farm Fresh in the City: Urban Grassroots Food Distribution Networks in Finland / Sophia E. Hagolani-Albov and Sarah J. Halvorson

The Appropriation of Space through 'Communist Swarms': A Socio-spatial Examination of Urban Apiculture in Washington, DC / Lauren Dryburgh

Urban Agriculture and the Reassembly of the City: Lessons from Wuhan, China / Sarah S. Horowitz and Juanjuan Liu

The Contribution of Smallholder Irrigated Urban Agriculture Towards Household Food Security in Harare, Zimbabwe / Never Mujere

Community Gardens as Urban Social-Ecological Refuges in the Global North / Joana Chan, Bryce B. DuBois, Kristine T. Nemec, Charles A. Francis and Kyle D. Hoagland

Global Urban Agriculture into the Future: Urban Cultivation as Accepted Practice /Antionette M.G.A. WinklerPrins.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Title from PDF title page (viewed July 5, 2017).

Other Format:

Print version: Global urban agriculture.

ISBN:

9781780647340

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