Urban versus conventional agriculture, taxonomy of resource profiles: a review

Agronomy for Sustainable Development

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 1-19

  Goldstein, Benjamin ^a   Hauschild, Michael ^a   Fernández, John ^b   Birkved, Morten ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Building integrated agriculture; Industrial ecology; Life cycle assessment; Quantitative sustainability assessment; Urban agriculture; Urban food systems; Urban metabolism

Indexed keywords

ECOLOGICAL FOOTPRINT; FOOD PRODUCTION; FOOD SUPPLY; HEAT ISLAND; INDUSTRIAL ECOLOGY; LIFE CYCLE ANALYSIS; STORMWATER; SUSTAINABILITY; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; URBAN AGRICULTURE; URBANIZATION;

EID: 84955493048     PISSN: 17740746     EISSN: 17730155     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s13593-015-0348-4     Document Type: Review

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