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Urban Agriculture and Community Values

The Green Transformation of Cities

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Authors:
  1. Lisa Newton

    1. University of Vermont, Shelburne, USA

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  • Addresses the evolving crisis in agriculture and the need for agricultural reform

  • Provides a sketch of the 'community economy'

  • Is the manifesto of Urban Agriculture

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  2. A Tale of Three Cities

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Havana, Cuba

      • Lisa Newton
      Pages 3-13

    3. Detroit, Michigan

      • Lisa Newton
      Pages 15-30

    4. Burlington, Vermont

      • Lisa Newton
      Pages 31-45

    5. A Tale of Many Values: What Can We Learn from the Cities?

      • Lisa Newton
      Pages 47-66

  3. Part II

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 67-67
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    2. Growing the City as a Community

      • Lisa Newton
      Pages 69-88

    3. Commercial Farming In (and Around) the City

      • Lisa Newton
      Pages 89-104

    4. The Farm in the Sky

      • Lisa Newton
      Pages 105-118

    5. Reflections: Retrieving the Values

      • Lisa Newton
      Pages 119-136

    6. Postscript: An Urban Farm in Process

      • Lisa Newton
      Pages 137-144

  4. Back Matter

    Pages 145-158
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About this book

This book addresses the evolving crisis in agriculture and sketches the 'community economy' that grounds agricultural enterprise more accurately than the industrial model. In its current practice, agriculture is (in the United States but increasingly in the rest of the world) unsustainable and destructive. The most immediately unsustainable feature of industrial agriculture is its dependence on the products of petroleum—as feedstock for fertilizers, herbicides, and pesticides, and as fuel for the farm machinery and transport of agricultural products into the cities. The problems of agriculture and in general the food systems to which it is attached range from the vulnerability of monocultures to new and stronger pests to the emerging medical problem of obesity. The need for agricultural reform is widely acknowledged; one part of the new work being done suggests that food production in the cities may solve several of its problems at once. This book is suitable for both undergraduate and graduate students in agriculture and environmental studies.

Authors and Affiliations

  • University of Vermont, Shelburne, USA

    Lisa Newton

About the author

Lisa Newton retired after 42 years in the Philosophy Department at Fairfield University, Fairfield, CT, where she founded and directed the Program in Applied Ethics from 1982 until retirement, and the Program in Environmental Studies from 1985 to 2005. During this time she published 14 books, mostly on Business Ethics and Environmental Protection, numerous Encyclopedia entries (many on agriculture), and upwards of seventy articles in peer-reviewed journals. Now settled in Vermont, she continues to write and consult (and occasionally teach) in the fields of social and political ethics, bioethics, business ethics, and environmental ethics.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Urban Agriculture and Community Values

  • Book Subtitle: The Green Transformation of Cities

  • Authors: Lisa Newton

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-39244-4

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-39242-0Published: 19 March 2020

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-39244-4Published: 18 March 2020

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIII, 158

  • Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Agricultural Ethics, Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning, Agriculture

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