IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/nat/natsus/v1y2018i1d10.1038_s41893-017-0014-8.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Urban agriculture growth in US cities

Author

Listed:
  • Lisa Palmer

    (National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center in Annapolis)

Abstract

In the United States, urban agriculture is growing as a result of increased availability of unused land and innovative development; the growth of farms and community gardens improves the ability of community members to cope with social and environmental change. But what will make urban agriculture sustainable?

Suggested Citation

  • Lisa Palmer, 2018. "Urban agriculture growth in US cities," Nature Sustainability, Nature, vol. 1(1), pages 5-7, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:natsus:v:1:y:2018:i:1:d:10.1038_s41893-017-0014-8
    DOI: 10.1038/s41893-017-0014-8
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41893-017-0014-8
    File Function: Abstract
    Download Restriction: Access to the full text of the articles in this series is restricted.
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1038/s41893-017-0014-8?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to search for a different version of it.

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Jinkwan Son & Minjae Kong & Hongshik Nam, 2022. "Design Model and Management Plan of a Rice–Fish Mixed Farming Paddy for Urban Agriculture and Ecological Education," Land, MDPI, vol. 11(8), pages 1-23, August.
    2. Esther Sanyé-Mengual & Francesco Orsini & Giorgio Gianquinto, 2018. "Revisiting the Sustainability Concept of Urban Food Production from a Stakeholders’ Perspective," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 10(7), pages 1-19, June.
    3. Alessio Russo & Giuseppe T. Cirella, 2019. "Edible urbanism 5.0," Palgrave Communications, Palgrave Macmillan, vol. 5(1), pages 1-9, December.
    4. Candis M. Hunter & Dana H. Z. Williamson & Matthew O. Gribble & Halle Bradshaw & Melanie Pearson & Eri Saikawa & P. Barry Ryan & Michelle Kegler, 2019. "Perspectives on Heavy Metal Soil Testing Among Community Gardeners in the United States: A Mixed Methods Approach," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 16(13), pages 1-19, July.
    5. Lauren Balotin & Samantha Distler & Antoinette Williams & Samuel J.W. Peters & Candis M. Hunter & Chris Theal & Gil Frank & Taranji Alvarado & Rosario Hernandez & Arthur Hines & Eri Saikawa, 2020. "Atlanta Residents’ Knowledge Regarding Heavy Metal Exposures and Remediation in Urban Agriculture," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 17(6), pages 1-27, March.
    6. Xiqiang Xia & Junhu Ruan, 2020. "Analyzing Barriers for Developing a Sustainable Circular Economy in Agriculture in China Using Grey-DEMATEL Approach," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 12(16), pages 1-25, August.

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:nat:natsus:v:1:y:2018:i:1:d:10.1038_s41893-017-0014-8. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Sonal Shukla or Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.nature.com .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.