Sökning: "urban rooftop agriculture"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 9 uppsatser innehållade orden urban rooftop agriculture.

  1. 1. Growing on the roof : But in what? Examing substrates/growing media for rooftop farming

    Kandidat-uppsats, SLU/Dept. of Landscape Architecture, Planning and Management (from 130101)

    Författare :Mikael Brocki; [2023]
    Nyckelord :urban rooftop agriculture; URTA; green roof; substrate; growing medium; organic matter; compost; vegetable; crop; yield; lettuce; tomato; pore; pore-size distribution;

    Sammanfattning : Urban Rooftop Agriculture (URTA) is a novel field within urban vegetable production, which can help create access to local food in a rapidly urbanizing world. For these systems to succeed, it is vital to implement a proper choice of substrate/growing medium (SGM). LÄS MER

  2. 2. Rooftop plant factories: effects on energy use for heating, cooling and electric lighting

    Master-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för Energi och byggnadsdesign; Lunds universitet/Institutionen för arkitektur och byggd miljö

    Författare :Yizhi Zhang; [2021]
    Nyckelord :Urban and peri-urban agriculture and forestry UPAF ; urban farming UF ; rooftop greenhouse RTG ; lighting; daylighting; energy conservation; roof; greenhouse; food; cities.; Technology and Engineering;

    Sammanfattning : Within the next thirty years, two thirds of the human population will live in a city. This growing urban population requires a major shift in the way we produce and distribute food, since industrial agriculture practices contribute to climate change, biodiversity losses, pollution of waterways, soil degradation, etc. LÄS MER

  3. 3. Opportunities in rooftop greenhouses in Stockholm : a study of the potential of commercial rooftop greenhouse urban agriculture in Stockholm

    Master-uppsats, SLU/Dept. of Urban and Rural Development

    Författare :Felicia Sen; [2018]
    Nyckelord :alternative food networks; business model; business strategy; commercial urban rooftop agriculture; rooftop greenhouses; short food supply chain; sustainability;

    Sammanfattning : Due to climate change, our resource depleation, population growth and further, our reliance on the world’s food production creates vulnerabilities and we need to find alternative agriculture methods. Commercial rooftop greenhouses are developing all around the world and to Stockholm this create an opportunity to produce food all year. LÄS MER

  4. 4. GROWING IN CITIES : rooftop urban agriculture for sustainable cities

    Magister-uppsats, KTH/Urbana och regionala studier

    Författare :Jelizaveta Toporova; [2018]
    Nyckelord :rooftop agriculture; urban agriculture; sustainable development; green rooftop; sustainability; green roof policies;

    Sammanfattning : The thesis takes into notice a rare case of integration of rooftop urban agriculture into sustainable development of urban areas. The current situation shows that the development of rooftop urban agriculture has not been adequately studied. LÄS MER

  5. 5. Det nya nordiska kökets skafferi - grönsaksodling på tak

    Kandidat-uppsats, Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för kulturvård

    Författare :Aina Gürlet; [2016-07-06]
    Nyckelord :new Nordic kitchen; rooftop agriculture; rooftop farming; urban gardening; sustainability; substrate; intensive roof; green roof; nya nordiska köket; takodling; stadsodling; gröna tak; odlingssubstrat; intensiva tak;

    Sammanfattning : On a rooftop in Tokyo, among plants, strongly associated with Japanese cooking, the thought of a rooftop farm in Sweden aroused within me. This bachelor thesis uses The New Nordic Kitchen Manifesto as a framework to define what type of produce a rooftop farm may contain under conditions of West Sweden. LÄS MER