Overview
- This books highlights the human dimension of urban agriculture
- A valuable resource for understanding public health, educational and economic aspects of urban agriculture
- Provides an evaluation of the risks associated with soil contamination in urban agriculture
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Table of contents (31 chapters)
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Perspectives on Food Security and the Impacts of Urban Agriculture
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Individual and Community Health Benefits of Urban Agriculture
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Managing the Risks of Urban Agriculture
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Democracy, Ethics, and Sovereignty in Urban Agriculture
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Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Kristen McIvor is the director of Harvest Pierce County, a program of the Pierce Conservation District. Their mission is to invest in people to foster and sustain an equitable and healthy community-based food system throughout Pierce County. She is also an adjunct professor at Antioch University Seattle where she teaches classes on food systems. Dr. McIvor got her MS at Antioch in Environment and Community and her PhD at the University of Washington. Her academic work has focused on improving soils in urban areas to support the growing of food, and much of her time is spent working with community groups to do just that. She lives in the drippy Pacific Northwest and loves its mild climate for year-round growing. In her spare time, she gets her hands dirty as often as she can, and loves preparing and sharing the bounty of her garden with her family and friends.
Sally L Brown is a Research Associate Professor at the University of Washington School of Forest and Environmental Science. She is a Fellow in the Soil Science Society of America, was a two- term member of the National Academy of Science Standing Committee on Soil Science and a member on the National Academy of Science Committee on the Bioavailability of Contaminants in Soils and Sediments. She has won multiple awards for her work on residuals use in soils. Dr. Brown writes a monthly column for Biocycle Magazine, a journal that focuses on sustainable management of organics. She has a BA in Political Science from Williams College (1980) and a MS (1993) and PhD (1996)from the University of Maryland. Before returning to graduate school, she worked as a chef in New York City, New Orleans and Connecticut. In 1986 she started a business delivering locally grown vegetables to stores and restaurants in New York City and Connecticut. She currently grows greens, onions, potatoes and currants on two plots near her home with the assistance of her husband and Tagro, the biosolids based soil amendment from Tacoma, WA.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Sowing Seeds in the City
Book Subtitle: Human Dimensions
Editors: Elizabeth Hodges Snyder, Kristen McIvor, Sally Brown
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-7456-7
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-017-7454-3Published: 31 May 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-024-1353-3Published: 30 May 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-94-017-7456-7Published: 20 May 2016
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 405
Number of Illustrations: 20 b/w illustrations, 117 illustrations in colour
Topics: Agriculture, Urban Ecology, Sustainable Development