Agriculture and the city: A method for sustainable planning of new forms of agriculture in urban contexts

Land Use Policy

Volumn 41, Issue , 2014, Pages 290-303

  La Rosa, Daniele ^a   Barbarossa, Luca ^a   Privitera, Riccardo ^a   Martinico, Francesco ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CATANIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

GIS; Indicators; Suitability modelling; Sustainable planning; Urban agriculture

Indexed keywords

GIS; GREENSPACE; MODELING; MULTICRITERIA ANALYSIS; PUBLIC SPACE; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; URBAN AGRICULTURE; URBAN PLANNING; AGRICULTURAL LAND; ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION; ENVIRONMENTAL INDICATOR; ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY; PERIURBAN AREA; URBAN DEVELOPMENT;

CATANIA [CATANIA (PRV)]; CATANIA [SICILY]; ITALY; SICILY;

EID: 84904295236     PISSN: 02648377     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.landusepol.2014.06.014     Document Type: Article

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