Assessing and Managing Soil Quality for Urban Agriculture in a Degraded Vacant Lot Soil

Land Degradation and Development

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 996-1006

  Beniston, Joshua W ^a   Lal, Rattan ^a   Mercer, Kristin L ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Compost; Shrinking cities; Soil compaction; Soil Management Assessment Framework; Soil quality; Urban agriculture; Urban soil; Vacant land

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; AGRONOMY; COMPACTION; COMPOSTING; CROPS; LAND USE; POPULATION STATISTICS; SOIL MECHANICS; SOILS; VEGETABLES;

SHRINKING CITY; SOIL COMPACTION; SOIL MANAGEMENT ASSESSMENT FRAMEWORKS; SOIL QUALITY; URBAN AGRICULTURES; URBAN SOILS;

URBAN GROWTH;

AGRICULTURAL SOIL; COMPOST; CROP YIELD; ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT; SOIL DEGRADATION; SOIL MANAGEMENT; SOIL QUALITY; URBAN AREA;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 84924405413     PISSN: 10853278     EISSN: 1099145X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ldr.2342     Document Type: Article

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