Title: Leveraging circular nutrients to improve the sustainability of peri-urban agriculture / Agriculture in the urban periphery (peri-UA) can potentially reduce its environmental impact through nutrient recovery from municipal solid and water waste, promoting local crops and displacing some dependency on imports.
We are thrilled to announce that the European Commission’s CORDIS service has published a feature article on the results of the URBAG project. The piece, titled "Prioritising integrated, vulnerability-focused urban greening," highlights the successful completion of our ERC-funded research and underscores our key findings regarding the complexities of Green Infrastructure (GI).
Angelica Mendoza finishes her MSCA scholarship PROspecTive Environmental AssessmeNt of Urban Agriculture-Emerging Systems (PROTEAN), which she carried out within the project URBAG. The aim was to develop prospective life cycle databases to calculate future life cycle impacts of food production to enable the comparison of food production via conventional agriculture and via urban agriculture, all in a future context.
Title: Incorporating user preferences in rooftop food-energy-water production through integrated sustainability assessment / We propose an integrated process that includes participatory processes and a multi-dimensional sustainability assessment of environmental, social and economic indicators.