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A case study of urban agriculture: A life cycle assessment of vegetable production.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	A case study of urban agriculture: A life cycle assessment of vegetable production./
Author:	Fisher, Stephen.
Description:	266 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 75-10(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International75-10A(E).
Subject:	Sustainability. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3621826
ISBN:	9781303932328

A case study of urban agriculture: A life cycle assessment of vegetable production.
Fisher, Stephen.

A case study of urban agriculture: A life cycle assessment of vegetable production. - 266 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 75-10(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Colorado at Denver, 2014.

This item must not be sold to any third party vendors.

The world's urban population surpassed the non-urban population for the first time in 2009. This marks what has been a steady global shift of providing more food to places it is not grown. Because food accounts for over 10 percent of the carbon footprint for the typical American city, this study adopts a social-ecological-infrastructural systems framework, a large component of which is recognizing urban activities and sectors belonging to infrastructure inside and outside the urban boundary. This is a key way to examine the embodied, life-cycle properties of the food we eat in cities.

ISBN: 9781303932328Subjects--Topical Terms:

1029978
Sustainability.

A case study of urban agriculture: A life cycle assessment of vegetable production.
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520 $a The world's urban population surpassed the non-urban population for the first time in 2009. This marks what has been a steady global shift of providing more food to places it is not grown. Because food accounts for over 10 percent of the carbon footprint for the typical American city, this study adopts a social-ecological-infrastructural systems framework, a large component of which is recognizing urban activities and sectors belonging to infrastructure inside and outside the urban boundary. This is a key way to examine the embodied, life-cycle properties of the food we eat in cities.
520 $a This study develops a product life cycle assessment (LCA) of a basket of vegetables (product) grown under two different formats. The first format is characterized by the large-scale, commercial growers that supply the typical supermarket. The second format is characterized by small-scale growers (less than 1 acre) that use higher land-use intensity and less mechanized practices. This second format is typically used by backyard gardeners, operators of neighborhood supported agriculture (NSA) and operators of some community supported agriculture (CSA) businesses. Published data is used for the large-scale format; primary, case-study data is used for the small-scale format.
520 $a Results of scenarios of land use change and vegetable production for both distant farmland and urban settings found that shifts resulting from urban vegetable production are favorable in terms of greenhouse gas emissions, water use, and soil organic carbon. Surprisingly, urban vegetable production is not categorically favorable for each metric; several key parameters can shift the balance in favor or out of favor for either growing format, and these parameters are distinctly bottom-up. The results indicate that state and local policy could remove hurdles to urban agricultural production with these data supporting claims that benefits outweigh costs.
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