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Urban Agriculture and City Sustainability II.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mambretti, S.
- Series:
- WIT Transactions on Ecology and the Environment
- WIT Transactions on Ecology and the Environment ; v.243
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Urban agriculture--Congresses.
- Urban agriculture.
- Sustainable development--Congresses.
- Sustainable development.
- City planning--Congresses.
- City planning.
- Genre:
- Conference papers and proceedings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (160 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Southampton : WIT Press, 2020.
- Summary:
- As urban populations continue to increase it is essential to consider ways of reducing their impact in terms of the use of natural resources, waste production and climate change. The 2nd International Conference on Urban Agriculture and City Sustainability addressed these challenges and this volume includes research on the search for new solutions.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Urban Agriculture and City Sustainability II
- Copyright Page
- Preface
- Contents
- Section 1: Food sovereignty
- New phase in the process of maintenance of the urban agricultural area of "L'Horta de València", Spain
- Short food supply chains in Barcelona's markets
- Geometric fragmentation of the Huerta of Valencia, Spain: Towards a sustainability model
- Section 2: Reduction of urban heat island
- Urban heat island mitigation due to enhanced evapotranspiration in an urban garden in Saint Paul, Minnesota, USA
- Wintertime thermal performance of green façades in a Mediterranean climate
- Heat transfer modelling in green façades
- Section 3: Sustainable land use
- Life cycle assessment of leafy vegetable consumption in urban Taipei, Taiwan
- Assessing the performance of urban green infrastructure: The case study of Benicalap District, Valencia, Spain
- Proposal of a set of indicators for sustainability evaluation of food production in an urban context
- Section 4: Urban metabolism
- Green roof performance in sustainable cities
- "What's the carbon content of your food?": Development of an interactive online foodprint simulator
- Measurement of technical efficiency: A case study of DaiLoan-mango in Vietnam
- Author index.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-78466-382-4
- OCLC:
- 1237406939
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