Small Scale Soil-less Urban Agriculture in Europe /

This Monograph focuses on the new approaches that urban agriculture offers to grow food in cities. The author paints a dynamic picture of soil-less and indoor techniques that are currently emerging. A growing number of small scale community-led and entrepreneurial initiatives are using such techniqu...

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Main Author: Caputo, Silvio (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2022
Edition:1st ed. 2022
Series:Biomedical and Life Sciences (SpringerNature-11642)
Urban Agriculture,
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505 0 |a Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Recent developments in urban agriculture -- Chapter 3. The broader debate on Science, Technology, Society and Food -- Chapter 4. Histories, techniques and technologies of soul-less cultivation -- Chapter 5. Methodology of the study: how success is measured -- Chapter 6. Case studies -- Chapter 7. The web community of soil-less farmers: a case study (authors: Valentina Manente and Silvio Caputo) -- Chapter 8. Discussion: analysing the case studies and the wider phenomenon of small scale soil-less urban agriculture -- Chapter 9 - Conclusions and future steps 
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