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Urban agriculture as a keystone contribution towards securing sustainable and healthy development for cities in the future
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Research and practice during the last 20 years has shown that urban agriculture can contribute to minimising the
effects of climate change by, at the same time, improving the life quality in urban areas. In order to do so most
effectively, land use and spatial planning are crucial so as to obtain and maintain a supportive green infrastructure
and to secure citizens’ healthy living conditions. As people today trend more towards living in green and sustainable city centres that can offer fresh and locally produced food, cities become again places for growing
food. The scope of urban agriculture thereby is to establish food production sites within the city’s sphere; f.e.
through building-integrated agriculture including concepts such as aquaponics, indoor agriculture, vertical farming,
rooftop production, edible walls, as well as through urban farms, edible landscapes, school gardens and
community gardens. Embedded in changing urban food systems, the contribution of urban agriculture to creating
sustainable and climate-friendly cities is pivotal as it has the capacity to integrate other resource streams such as
water, waste and energy. This article describes some of the current aspects of the circular city debate where
urban agriculture is pushing forward the development of material and resource cycling in cities
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agriculture circular city ecosystem services infrastructure recirculation urban farming
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Skar S.L.G., Pineda-Martos R., Timpe A., Pölling B., Bohn K., Külvik M., Delgado C., Pedras C.M.G., Paço T.A., Ćujić M., Tzortzakis N., Chrysargyris A., Peticila A., Alencikiene G., Monsees H., Junge R. 2020. Urban agriculture as an innovative mechanism to secure cities a sustainable and healthy development in the future. Blue-Green Systems 2(1): 1-27
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IWA Publishing