The Role of Urban Agriculture as a Nature-Based Solution: A Review for Developing a Systemic Assessment Framework

Urban community gardens: An evaluation of governance approaches and related enablers and barriers at different development stages

(2018) Runrid Fox-Kämper et al.   LANDSCAPE AND URBAN PLANNING

Harvest to harvest: Recovering nutrients with New Sanitation systems for reuse in Urban Agriculture

(2018) Rosanne C. Wielemaker et al.   RESOURCES CONSERVATION AND RECYCLING

Local- and landscape-scale land cover affects microclimate and water use in urban gardens

(2018) Brenda B. Lin et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

The superior effect of nature based solutions in land management for enhancing ecosystem services

(2018) Saskia Keesstra et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Cultivating nature-based solutions: The governance of communal urban gardens in the European Union

(2017) Alexander P.N. van der Jagt et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH

N 2 O emissions from protected soilless crops for more precise food and urban agriculture life cycle assessments

(2017) Pere Llorach-Massana et al.   JOURNAL OF CLEANER PRODUCTION

Potential of floating production for delta and coastal cities

(2017) B. Dal Bo Zanon et al.   JOURNAL OF CLEANER PRODUCTION

Growing fresh fruits and vegetables in an urban landscape: A geospatial assessment of ground level and rooftop urban agriculture potential in Boston, USA

(2017) Mithun Saha et al.   LANDSCAPE AND URBAN PLANNING

Urban heat islands as agricultural opportunities: An innovative approach

(2017) Alexander D. Waffle et al.   LANDSCAPE AND URBAN PLANNING

Enhancing pollination supply in an urban ecosystem through landscape modifications

(2017) Amélie Y. Davis et al.   LANDSCAPE AND URBAN PLANNING

The potential for urban household vegetable gardens to reduce greenhouse gas emissions

(2017) David A. Cleveland et al.   LANDSCAPE AND URBAN PLANNING

Urban planning and agriculture. Methodology for assessing rooftop greenhouse potential of non-residential areas using airborne sensors

(2017) Ana Nadal et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

The science, policy and practice of nature-based solutions: An interdisciplinary perspective

(2017) Carsten Nesshöver et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Ecosystem services of allotment and community gardens: A Leipzig, Germany case study

(2017) Ines Cabral et al.   URBAN FORESTRY & URBAN GREENING

Health Benefits of Urban Allotment Gardening: Improved Physical and Psychological Well-Being and Social Integration

(2017) Masashi Soga et al.   International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health

Ecosystem services of collectively managed urban gardens: Exploring factors affecting synergies and trade-offs at the site level

(2017) Matthew Dennis et al.   Ecosystem Services

Farmland – an Elephant in the Room of Urban Green Infrastructure? Lessons learned from connectivity analysis in three German cities

(2017) Werner Rolf et al.   ECOLOGICAL INDICATORS

Cultivating citizenship, equity, and social inclusion? Putting civic agriculture into practice through urban farming

(2016) Melissa N. Poulsen   AGRICULTURE AND HUMAN VALUES

Soilless system on peat reduce trace metals in urban-grown food: unexpected evidence for a soil origin of plant contamination

(2016) Giuseppina Pennisi et al.   Agronomy for Sustainable Development

Socially acceptable urban agriculture businesses

(2016) Kathrin Specht et al.   Agronomy for Sustainable Development

Landscape and Local Habitat Correlates of Lady Beetle Abundance and Species Richness in Urban Agriculture

(2016) M. H. Egerer et al.   ANNALS OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA

Urban agriculture in Bragança, Northeast Portugal: assessing the nutrient dynamic in the soil and plants, and their contamination with trace metals

(2016) Margarida Arrobas et al.   BIOLOGICAL AGRICULTURE & HORTICULTURE

A novel approach for analyzing the food-energy nexus through on-farm energy generation

(2016) Marisabel Cuberos Balda et al.   Clean Technologies and Environmental Policy

Nature-based solutions to climate change mitigation and adaptation in urban areas: perspectives on indicators, knowledge gaps, barriers, and opportunities for action

(2016) Nadja Kabisch et al.   ECOLOGY AND SOCIETY

Maize Germplasm Conservation in Southern California’s Urban Gardens: Introduced Diversity Beyond ex situ and in situ Management

(2016) Joanne M. Heraty et al.   ECONOMIC BOTANY

Landscape and Local Correlates of Bee Abundance and Species Richness in Urban Gardens

(2016) Robyn D. Quistberg et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL ENTOMOLOGY

Ecosystem services provided by urban gardens in Barcelona, Spain: Insights for policy and planning

(2016) Marta Camps-Calvet et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & POLICY

Soil quality is key for planning and managing urban allotments intended for the sustainable production of home-consumption vegetables

(2016) F. Bretzel et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND POLLUTION RESEARCH

Risk assessment from exposure to arsenic, antimony, and selenium in urban gardens (Madrid, Spain)

(2016) Eduardo De Miguel et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL TOXICOLOGY AND CHEMISTRY

Testing the environmental performance of urban agriculture as a food supply in northern climates

(2016) Benjamin Goldstein et al.   JOURNAL OF CLEANER PRODUCTION

Social-Ecological Refuges: Reconnecting In Community Gardens In Lincoln, Nebraska

(2016) Joana Chan et al.   JOURNAL OF ETHNOBIOLOGY

Socio-spatial differentiation in the Sustainable City: A mixed-methods assessment of residential gardens in metropolitan Portland, Oregon, USA

(2016) Nathan McClintock et al.   LANDSCAPE AND URBAN PLANNING

Ecosystem services and tradeoffs in the home food gardens of African American, Chinese-origin and Mexican-origin households in Chicago, IL

(2016) John R. Taylor et al.   RENEWABLE AGRICULTURE AND FOOD SYSTEMS

Crop diversity and plant–plant interactions in urban allotment gardens

(2016) Matthew E. Woods et al.   RENEWABLE AGRICULTURE AND FOOD SYSTEMS

Characteristics and motivations of potential users of urban allotment gardens: The case of Vila Nova de Gaia municipal network of urban allotment gardens

(2016) Isabel Martinho da Silva et al.   URBAN FORESTRY & URBAN GREENING

Getting farming on the agenda: Planning, policymaking, and governance practices of urban agriculture in New York City

(2016) Lindsay K. Campbell   URBAN FORESTRY & URBAN GREENING

Social-Ecological Refuges: Reconnecting In Community Gardens In Lincoln, Nebraska

(2016) Joana Chan et al.   JOURNAL OF ETHNOBIOLOGY

Toward Sustainability: Novelties, Areas of Learning and Innovation in Urban Agriculture

(2016) Ina Opitz et al.   Sustainability

Peri-Urban Food Production and Its Relation to Urban Resilience

(2016) E. Olsson et al.   Sustainability

Human-Nature for Climate Action: Nature-Based Solutions for Urban Sustainability

(2016) Helen Santiago Fink   Sustainability

Towards Regenerated and Productive Vacant Areas through Urban Horticulture: Lessons from Bologna, Italy

(2016) Daniela Gasperi et al.   Sustainability

Estimating stormwater runoff for community gardens in New York City

(2016) Mara Gittleman et al.   URBAN ECOSYSTEMS

Integrated valuation of a nature-based solution for water pollution control. Highlighting hidden benefits

(2016) Camino Liquete et al.   Ecosystem Services

Perception and acceptance of agricultural production in and on urban buildings (ZFarming): a qualitative study from Berlin, Germany

(2015) Kathrin Specht et al.   AGRICULTURE AND HUMAN VALUES

Urban agriculture and the prospects for deep democracy

(2015) David W. McIvor et al.   AGRICULTURE AND HUMAN VALUES

Is food a motivation for urban gardeners? Multifunctionality and the relative importance of the food function in urban collective gardens of Paris and Montreal

(2015) Jeanne Pourias et al.   AGRICULTURE AND HUMAN VALUES

Techniques and crops for efficient rooftop gardens in Bologna, Italy

(2015) Esther Sanyé-Mengual et al.   Agronomy for Sustainable Development

Geospatial assessment of potential bioenergy crop production on urban marginal land

(2015) Mithun Saha et al.   APPLIED ENERGY

The future of urban agriculture and biodiversity-ecosystem services: Challenges and next steps

(2015) Brenda B. Lin et al.   BASIC AND APPLIED ECOLOGY

Community considerations for quinoa production in the urban environment

(2015) E. C. Thomas et al.   CANADIAN JOURNAL OF PLANT SCIENCE

Bioaccessibility of metals and human health risk assessment in community urban gardens

(2015) M. Izquierdo et al.   CHEMOSPHERE

Ecosystem disservices research: A review of the state of the art with a focus on cities

(2015) Peer von Döhren et al.   ECOLOGICAL INDICATORS

Reading Ecosystem Services at the Local Scale through a Territorial Approach: the Case of Peri-Urban Agriculture in the Thau Lagoon, Southern France

(2015) Laure-Elise Ruoso et al.   ECOLOGY AND SOCIETY

Does intake of trace elements through urban gardening in Copenhagen pose a risk to human health?

(2015) Marlies Warming et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION

An environmental and economic life cycle assessment of rooftop greenhouse (RTG) implementation in Barcelona, Spain. Assessing new forms of urban agriculture from the greenhouse structure to the final product level

(2015) Esther Sanyé-Mengual et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF LIFE CYCLE ASSESSMENT

Comparative review of multifunctionality and ecosystem services in sustainable agriculture

(2015) Jiao Huang et al.   JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT

When Vacant Lots Become Urban Gardens: Characterizing the Perceived and Actual Food Safety Concerns of Urban Agriculture in Ohio

(2015) MICHELLE L. KAISER et al.   JOURNAL OF FOOD PROTECTION

Allotment Gardens Contribute to Urban Ecosystem Service: Case Study Salzburg, Austria

(2015) Jürgen H. Breuste et al.   JOURNAL OF URBAN PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT

Greenhouse gas emission reduction effect in the transportation sector by urban agriculture in Seoul, Korea

(2015) Gwan-Gyu Lee et al.   LANDSCAPE AND URBAN PLANNING

Biodiversity and direct ecosystem service regulation in the community gardens of Los Angeles, CA

(2015) Lorraine Weller Clarke et al.   LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY

Trace Metal Contamination in New York City Garden Soils

(2015) Zhongqi Cheng et al.   SOIL SCIENCE

Community gardens or vacant lots? Rethinking the attractiveness and seasonality of green land uses in distressed neighborhoods

(2015) Victoria Morckel   URBAN FORESTRY & URBAN GREENING

Refuges of local resilience: Community gardens in post-Sandy New York City

(2015) Joana Chan et al.   URBAN FORESTRY & URBAN GREENING

Vegetable raingardens can produce food and reduce stormwater runoff

(2015) Paul J. Richards et al.   URBAN FORESTRY & URBAN GREENING

Nature-Based Solutions for Europe's Sustainable Development

(2015) Joachim Maes et al.   Conservation Letters

Exploring ecological, emotional and social levers of self-rated health for urban gardeners and non-gardeners: A path analysis

(2015) J.S. Litt et al.   SOCIAL SCIENCE & MEDICINE

Nature-based Solutions: New Influence for Environmental Management and Research in Europe

(2015) Hilde Eggermont et al.   GAIA-Ecological Perspectives for Science and Society

Allotment Gardens Contribute to Urban Ecosystem Service: Case Study Salzburg, Austria

(2015) Jürgen H. Breuste et al.   JOURNAL OF URBAN PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT

Zero-Acreage Farming in the City of Berlin: An Aggregated Stakeholder Perspective on Potential Benefits and Challenges

(2015) Kathrin Specht et al.   Sustainability

Pollination service to urban agriculture in San Francisco, CA

(2015) Andrew Potter et al.   URBAN ECOSYSTEMS

Agroecological and social characteristics of New York city community gardens: contributions to urban food security, ecosystem services, and environmental education

(2015) Megan M. Gregory et al.   URBAN ECOSYSTEMS

The uptake of the ecosystem services concept in planning discourses of European and American cities

(2015) Rieke Hansen et al.   Ecosystem Services

Urban gardens as a solution to energy poverty and urban heat island

(2015) Vasiliki Tsilini et al.   Sustainable Cities and Society

Food production in the city: (re)negotiating land, food and property

(2015) Gerda R. Wekerle et al.   Local Environment

A Quantitative Review of Urban Ecosystem Service Assessments: Concepts, Models, and Implementation

(2014) Dagmar Haase et al.   AMBIO

From Multifunctionality to Multiple Ecosystem Services? A Conceptual Framework for Multifunctionality in Green Infrastructure Planning for Urban Areas

(2014) Rieke Hansen et al.   AMBIO

Multiple ecosystem services and disservices of the urban forest establishing their connections with landscape structure and sociodemographics

(2014) Cynnamon Dobbs et al.   ECOLOGICAL INDICATORS

Urban cultivation in allotments maintains soil qualities adversely affected by conventional agriculture

(2014) Jill L. Edmondson et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Safety of Gardening on Lead- and Arsenic-Contaminated Urban Brownfields

(2014) Phillip P. Defoe et al.   JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY

Heavy Metal Contamination of Vegetables Irrigated by Urban Stormwater: A Matter of Time?

(2014) Minna Tom et al.   PLoS One

Farming in and on urban buildings: Present practice and specific novelties of Zero-Acreage Farming (ZFarming)

(2014) Susanne Thomaier et al.   RENEWABLE AGRICULTURE AND FOOD SYSTEMS

Innovation in urban agricultural practices: Responding to diverse production environments

(2014) Anne Pfeiffer et al.   RENEWABLE AGRICULTURE AND FOOD SYSTEMS

Resource needs for a socially just and sustainable urban agriculture system: Lessons from New York City

(2014) Nevin Cohen et al.   RENEWABLE AGRICULTURE AND FOOD SYSTEMS

Urban home gardens in the Global North: A mixed methods study of ethnic and migrant home gardens in Chicago, IL

(2014) John R. Taylor et al.   RENEWABLE AGRICULTURE AND FOOD SYSTEMS

Color me healthy: Food diversity in school community gardens in two rapidly urbanising Australian cities

(2014) Daniela A. Guitart et al.   HEALTH & PLACE

Exploring the production capacity of rooftop gardens (RTGs) in urban agriculture: the potential impact on food and nutrition security, biodiversity and other ecosystem services in the city of Bologna

(2014) Francesco Orsini et al.   Food Security

Optimising diet decisions and urban agriculture using linear programming

(2014) James D. Ward et al.   Food Security

Vegetable Output and Cost Savings of Community Gardens in San Jose, California

(2014) Susan J. Algert et al.   Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics

Soil assessment for urban agriculture: a Vancouver case study

(2014) G.A Oka et al.   Journal of Soil Science and Plant Nutrition

Relationship between soil heavy metal contamination and soil food web health in vacant lots slated for urban agriculture in two post-industrial cities

(2014) Kuhuk Sharma et al.   URBAN ECOSYSTEMS

The Potential of Urban Agriculture in Montréal: A Quantitative Assessment

(2014) Daniel Haberman et al.   ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information

Towards urban food sovereignty: the trials and tribulations of community-based aquaponics enterprises in Milwaukee and Melbourne

(2014) Julia Laidlaw et al.   Local Environment

Research-informed gardening activism: steering the public food and land agenda

(2014) Chiara Tornaghi et al.   Local Environment

Watering the garden: preferences for alternative sources in suburban areas of the Mediterranean coast

(2014) Xavier Garcia et al.   Local Environment

Urban agriculture in the developing world: a review

(2013) Francesco Orsini et al.   Agronomy for Sustainable Development

Strawberry fields forever? Urban agriculture in developed countries: a review

(2013) Hoi-Fei Mok et al.   Agronomy for Sustainable Development

Lead in New York City community garden chicken eggs: influential factors and health implications

(2013) Henry M. Spliethoff et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL GEOCHEMISTRY AND HEALTH

Spatial dimensions of soil sealing management in growing and shrinking cities – a systemic multi-scale analysis in Germany

(2013) Martina Artmann   Erdkunde

Heavy metals in produce from urban farms in the San Francisco Bay Area

(2013) Hannah Kohrman et al.   Food Additives & Contaminants Part B-Surveillance

Shortening food supply chains: A means for maintaining agriculture close to urban areas? The case of the French metropolitan area of Paris

(2013) Christine Aubry et al.   FOOD POLICY

A social–ecological assessment of vacant lots in New York City

(2013) Peleg Kremer et al.   LANDSCAPE AND URBAN PLANNING

Introducing urban food forestry: a multifunctional approach to increase food security and provide ecosystem services

(2013) Kyle H. Clark et al.   LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY

The Environmental Impacts of Sprawl: Emergent Themes from the Past Decade of Planning Research

(2013) Bev Wilson et al.   Sustainability

Quantifying soil health and tomato crop productivity in urban community and market gardens

(2013) J. Reeves et al.   URBAN ECOSYSTEMS

The five pillar EPPS framework for quantifying, mapping and managing ecosystem services

(2013) Olaf Bastian et al.   Ecosystem Services

Can home gardens scale up into movements for social change? The role of home gardens in providing food security and community change in San Jose, California

(2013) Leslie Gray et al.   Local Environment

Environmental analysis of the logistics of agricultural products from roof top greenhouses in Mediterranean urban areas

(2012) Esther Sanyé-Mengual et al.   JOURNAL OF THE SCIENCE OF FOOD AND AGRICULTURE

Characterization of non-urbanized areas for land-use planning of agricultural and green infrastructure in urban contexts

(2012) Daniele La Rosa et al.   LANDSCAPE AND URBAN PLANNING

Civic greening and environmental learning in public-access community gardens in Berlin

(2012) Pim Bendt et al.   LANDSCAPE AND URBAN PLANNING

Producing edible landscapes in Seattle's urban forest

(2012) Rebecca McLain et al.   URBAN FORESTRY & URBAN GREENING

Limitations of the CLEA model when assessing human health risks from dioxins and furans in soil at an allotments site in Rochdale, NW England

(2011) David Megson et al.   JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING

Solutions for a cultivated planet

(2011) Jonathan A. Foley et al.   NATURE

Global food demand and the sustainable intensification of agriculture

(2011) D. Tilman et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The impact of projected increases in urbanization on ecosystem services

(2011) F. Eigenbrod et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

The urban stormwater farm

(2011) M. B. Liebman et al.   WATER SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Connecting food environments and health through the relational nature of aesthetics: Gaining insight through the community gardening experience

(2011) James Hale et al.   SOCIAL SCIENCE & MEDICINE

Faecal contamination and hygiene aspect associated with the use of treated wastewater and canal water for irrigation of potatoes (Solanum tuberosum)

(2010) A. Forslund et al.   AGRICULTURAL WATER MANAGEMENT

Edible backyards: a qualitative study of household food growing and its contributions to food security

(2010) Robin Kortright et al.   AGRICULTURE AND HUMAN VALUES

The transition to an urbanizing world and the demand for natural resources

(2010) Shu-Li Huang et al.   Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability

Multifunctional Urban Agriculture for Sustainable Land Use Planning in the United States

(2010) Sarah Taylor Lovell   Sustainability