Urban agriculture
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Urban agriculture: how to implement it on rooftops and terraces? A practical guide.
Urban farming is at the crossroads of the environmental concerns and the societal aspirations of citizens. Responding to the need of revegetating urban spaces involves making a better use of rooftops that are currently
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The first guide from the lab recherche environnement on rooftop urban agriculture
The guide by Fanny Provent and Paola Mugnier, published by Editions Eyrolles, will be available in ebook format and in bookstores.
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Research area
Biodiversity
Reconciling nature and the city, a highly artificial environment, is an art that is practised from the scale of the building to that of the suburban territory, including that of the neighbourhood.
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LCA of neighbourhoods
Life-cycle assessment is a method to assess the environmental impacts of buildings and infrastructures throughout their life cycle, from the extraction of raw materials through to their end-of-lifetime handling.
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Urban agriculture, a globalised phenomenon
Fanny Provent and Paola Mugnier have created an overview of current trends thanks to the benchmark of 170 projects around the world. They also analysed the services provided, established the characteristics of these
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