The ability for urban ecosystems to deliver provisioning, regulating, cultural, and supporting services is vital for the health, sustainability, and resilience of urban environments. The increasing pressures being placed on urban environments by global climate change and the need to create sustainable food systems contributes to rising interest in green infrastructure and urban agriculture ...
Office of Urban Agriculture and Innovative Production. Outside the U ited States, other cit-ies provide additional examples. Paris, France, for instance, opened the worlds largest urban farm (~14,000 m2) to f n non-tangible, less recognized, and under-appreciated. This publication will elaborate on multiple ecosystem services provided by ur
In an ideal situation, urban agriculture represents a system in which environmentally sustainable cultivation practices, the local economy, and relationships between people intersect, creating a thriv-ing local food system, strong communities and ensuring greater access to healthy, seasonal and local food and ecosystem services while at the ...
Finally, we highlight future research directions on ecosystem services and the trade-offs for sustainable urban food production, biodiversity, and natural resource conservation.
This committee advises the Secretary of Agriculture and the Director of the Office of Urban Agriculture and Innovative Production on the development of policies and outreach relating to urban, indoor, and other emerging agricultural production practices as well as identifies barriers to urban farmers and agricultural innovation.
Spatial distributions of 10 ecosystem services in the Yahara Watershed, Wisconsin, for 2006. Red indicates areas with high supply and green indicates low supply of ecosystem services.
While ecosystem services research is proliferating from local to global scales, understanding patterns and interactions among ecosystem services across heterogeneous landscapes in the context of multiple changing drivers remains limited.
The ecosystem services provided by urban agriculture can be determinant in this process.36. Lin BB, Philpott SM, Jha S. The future of urban agriculture and biodiversity-ecosystem services: Challenges and next steps. Basic Appl Ecol. Elsevier GmbH; 2015;16: 189201.
