Attenuation of urban agricultural production potential and crop water footprint due to shading from buildings and trees

Environmental Research Letters

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2015, Pages

  Johnson, Mark S ^a   Lathuillière, Michael J ^a   Tooke, Thoreau R ^a   Coops, Nicholas C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

crop water use; evapotranspiration; urban agriculture; water footprint

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE MODELS; CROPS; ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE ATTENUATION; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; FORESTRY; RENDERING (COMPUTER GRAPHICS); TREES (MATHEMATICS); WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER SUPPLY;

AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTIONS; CROP WATER REQUIREMENTS; CROP WATER USE; RESIDENTIAL NEIGHBORHOODS; SPATIALLY EXPLICIT; URBAN AGRICULTURES; WATER FOOTPRINT; WATER REQUIREMENTS;

AGRICULTURE;

AGRICULTURAL MANAGEMENT; AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION; CROP YIELD; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; GROWTH MODELING; LIDAR; LIGHT ATTENUATION; SHADING; URBAN AGRICULTURE; WATER DEMAND; WATER FOOTPRINT; WATER PLANNING;

BRITISH COLUMBIA; CANADA; VANCOUVER [BRITISH COLUMBIA];

EID: 84937500941     PISSN: 17489318     EISSN: 17489326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/10/6/064007     Document Type: Article

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