Achieving sustainable urban agriculture

• Strong focus on infrastructural requirements for successful urban agriculture, such as public policy and planning frameworks, business models and social networks
• Covers developments in key technologies such as rooftop and vertical farming, as well as waste management
• Includes case studies of particular commodities, including horticultural produce, livestock and forestry

Part 1 Building urban agriculture networks
1.Creating a supportive public policy framework for urban agriculture: Johannes S. C. Wiskerke, Wageningen University, The Netherlands;
2.The changing role of urban agriculture in municipal planning: from planning for urban agriculture to urban agriculture for planning: Nevin Cohen, City University of New York, USA;
3.Urban agriculture and local communities: encouraging engagement, building cohesion, and linking to global agreements: Laine Young, Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada; and Alison Blay-Palmer, Wilfrid Laurier University and The Balsillie School of International Affairs, Canada;
4.Building continuous productive (peri-)urban landscapes: André Viljoen and Katrin Bohn, University of Brighton, UK;
5.Building natural resource networks: urban agriculture and the circular economy: Stefano Pascucci, University of Exeter, UK;

Part 2 Technologies for urban agriculture
6.Rooftop systems for urban agriculture: Elisa Appolloni and Francesco Orsini, Bologna University, Italy; and Cecilia Stanghellini, Wageningen UR Greenhouse Horticulture, The Netherlands;
7.Vertical farming systems for urban agriculture: Dickson Despommier, Columbia University, USA;
8.Redirecting nutrients in urban waste to urban agriculture: Rosanne Wielemaker and Jan Weijma, Wageningen University, The Netherlands;
9.Pest management for urban agriculture: Giovanni G. Bazzocchi, University of Bologna, Italy;

Part 3 Case studies
10.Optimizing horticulture for urban agriculture: B. W. Alsanius, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Sweden; M. Jirström, Lund University, Sweden; M. T. Naznin and S. Khalil, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Sweden; and E.-C. Ekström, Uppsala University, Sweden;
11.Optimizing livestock farming in urban agriculture: Delia Grace, International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), Kenya; Elizabeth Cook, International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), Kenya and University of Liverpool, UK; and Johanna Lindahl, International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), Kenya and Uppsala University and Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU), Sweden;
12.Optimising aquaculture/aquaponics in urban agriculture: developing rooftop water farms: Anja Steglich, Grit Bürgow and Angela Million, Technical University of Berlin, Germany;
13.Optimizing urban beekeeping: Erik Stange, Norwegian Institute for Nature Research, Norway;
14.Optimising urban forestry: the food connection: Cecil C. Konijnendijk and Hyeone Park, University of British Columbia, Canada;