Vertically Farming the Future: The Urbanizing Food-Energy-Water Nexus
A special issue of Land (ISSN 2073-445X). This special issue belongs to the section "Water, Energy, Land and Food (WELF) Nexus".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (29 February 2024) | Viewed by 573
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Dear Colleagues,
Two-thirds of the world’s projected population are forecast, by 2050, to resituate themselves to urban jurisdictions, with the largest megacities arising in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. This global land use change transition is driven by cumulative social, economic, and environmental stressors across the built environment, inclusive of the agri-food system, and in conjunction with their present future adaptive and regenerative capacities. The centrality of food, energy, and water to global governance and information and everyday life, work and play avails those so inclined a pan-disciplinary approach to the multi-level and multi-scale challenges and opportunities of integrating present future adaptive and regenerative design capacities and innovations, arising at the intersection of food, energy, water needs and urbanization.
For this Special Issue, we are interested in contributions that advance methods and practices of adding or summing up the parts to find the new whole that balances the urbanizing food, energy, water nexus interface, through either empirical research or conceptual/theoretical works, examining any key processes, including, but not limited to:
- Integrated controlled environmental agriculture;
- Present future adaptive and regenerative design;
- Urban brownfields and land revitalization;
- Urban food energy water systems;
- Green architecture and design;
- Combined horizontal and vertical agriculture
Contributions at the intersection of integrated controlled environmental agriculture and urban design are especially welcome, but contributions from other fields that elevate integrated regenerative urban design are also highly welcome. Cross-sectoral approaches in contributions is also desired.
Dr. Richard Gragg
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- urban food-energy-water systems
- vertical agriculture
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