Urban agriculture
Event
Rooftop vegetable gardens to nurture the resilience of cities
Farms in towns are a possible solution to the short-circuit problems of food distribution and meet the natural needs of urban dwellers.
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Practitioner group
Nature in the city
The benefits and costs related to green infrastructure in cities need to be better understood through assessment tools that measure environmental impacts, for example, carbon emissions due to the transport of substrates,
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Pilot site
Vegetable rooftop at AgroParisTech
AgroParisTech’s experimental rooftop has been used since 2012 to design urban agriculture systems in rooftop boxes, using urban residues as components of technosols, with the aim of studying the services provided by
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Tool
Biodi(V)strict®
This diagnostic tool for the state of biodiversity in a neighbourhood compares the impact of different construction or rehabilitation projects on biodiversity in the city.
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Project
Development of a sustainability self-assessment tool for urban agriculture stakeholders
A simplified life-cycle assessment tool will allow decision makers to assess the sustainability of urban agriculture projects and guide the design and management of these projects.
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Post
Editorial: why a practical guide to rooftop vegetable gardens?
Historically, agriculture has forged our societies, in terms of both their social and spatial organisation. While the development of agriculture has led to sedentarisation and so the establishment of cities, the urban
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