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Potential ecosystem services of urban agriculture: a review

2016-07-13

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Urban agriculture (UA) is increasingly proposed as an environmentally friendly answer to global challenges including urbanization, public health, food security and climate change. We provide an overview of present evidence of ecosystem services delivered by UA that could potentially increase the sustainability of the urban ecosystem, including the often claimed reduced greenhouse gas emissions. There is general ag...

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899f4e84-b2d3-5d48-8c7b-01d28c5bd196
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10.7287/peerj.preprints.2286v1
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