Urban Agriculture and Community Values: The Green Transformation of Cities

by Newton

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,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3030392422
• ISBN13: 9783030392420
• Release Date: March 2020
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 158 Pages
• Weight: 0.93 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"