Allocating urban agricultural reuse strategies to inventoried vacant and underutilized land

Journal of Environmental Informatics

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 1-11

  Kirnbauer, M C ^a   Baetz, B W ^a  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Analytic hierarchy process; Decision support; Food urbanism; Land inventory; Site suitability; Urban food production

Indexed keywords

DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; FOOD PRODUCTION; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEM; LAND USE PLANNING; SOFTWARE; URBAN AGRICULTURE;

EID: 84867521205     PISSN: 17262135     EISSN: 16848799     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3808/jei.201200215     Document Type: Article

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