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| DOI: | 10.1023/A:1024093920660 |
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| Web URL(s): | https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1023%2FA%3A1024093920660
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| Publication Type:
| Refereed |
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| Author(s): | Beck, Travis B.;
Quigley, Martin F.;
Martin, Jay F. |
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| Author Affiliation: | Beck and Quigley: Department of Horticulture and Crop Science; Martin: Department of Food Agricultural and Biological Engineering, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH |
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| Title: | Emergy evaluation of food production in urban residential landscapes |
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| Source: | Urban Ecosystems. Vol. 5, No. 3, September 2001, p. 187-207. |
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| Publishing Information: | Andover, Hants U.K.: Chapman and Hall |
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| # of Pages: | 21 |
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| Related Web URL: | https://link.springer.com/article/10.1023%2FA%3A1024093920660
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| Keywords: | TIC Keywords: Agricultural regions; Edible plants; Landscape ecology; Renewable energy; Urban habitat
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| Abstract/Contents: | "To transform cities from heterotrophic into sustainable ecosystems many authors have called for increased food production, including home gardening, in urban areas. We conducted an emergy analysis of four model backyard landscape plotsa conventional ornamental landscape, an intensive organic garden, an edible landscape, and a forest gardento assess the yield and sustainability of these systems. Data were collected during the 2001 growing season and extrapolated to make a five year projection. In the 2001 season, all plots had low Emergy Yield Ratios (EYR) of between 0.0003 and 0.17 and extremely low Emergy Sustainability Indices (SI). In the five year projection, all plots still had low EYRs of between 0.0008 and 0.33 and very low SIs. These low indices are due primarily to the high levels of economic inputs required for the installation and maintenance of these plots in an urban context. Analyses performed on larger systems (households, neighborhoods and cities) containing productive landscapes such as those studied here may produce different results. Installing food-producing landscapes in urban areas without altering the networks by which such landscapes are supplied, however, may not substantially alter the heterotrophic nature of cities." |
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| Language: | English |
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| References: | 41 |
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| ASA/CSSA/SSSA Citation (Crop Science-Like - may be incomplete):
Beck, T. B., M. F. Quigley, and J. F. Martin. 2001. Emergy evaluation of food production in urban residential landscapes. Urban Ecosystems. 5(3):p. 187-207. |
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| DOI: 10.1023/A:1024093920660 |
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