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Permaculture Design: Linking Local Knowledge in Land Use Planning for House Compound
SHS Web of Conferences, 2018 Permaculture accounts as among the sustainable practices that incorporates diverse aspects of ecology, landscape, organic farming, forestry, agriculture, architecture, and city planning.
Mohd Salleh Anizah +3 more
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A Whole-Systems Design Approach to City Living
Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development, 2016 First paragraphs: Toby Hemenway's recent book is a well grounded follow-up to his earlier book, Gaia's Garden, which was instrumental in introducing the concept of permaculture to an American audience.
Sharon Ferguson, Jillian Ferguson
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Frontiers in Communication, 2022 As we reflect and learn from the lessons lived during the COVID-19 pandemic that severely disrupted our ways of being in the world, in this article we call for restorative pedagogies which can reconnect us to each other and to the places we live in.
Sarah Cox, Alison Phipps, Lavinia Hirsu
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Permaculture in the margins: realizing Central European regeneration
Journal of Political Ecology, 2015 As the adverse effects of intensive, high-input food production are made increasingly obvious, alternatives are ubiquitous; these localized alternatives can also be a model for resistance, creating space for the negotiation of 'progress', particularly in
A. June Brawner
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Urban Food Autonomy: The Flourishing of an Ethics of Care for Sustainability
Humanities, 2021 Urban agriculture is often advanced as a sustainable solution to feed a growing urban population, offering a number of benefits: improved fresh food access, CO2 absorption, social justice and social cohesion among others.
Esteve Giraud
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The economic performance of urban gardening in three European cities – examples from Ljubljana, Milan and London [PDF]
, 2018 Urban gardening is not a new phenomenon but it has received considerably more practical and academic interest in recent years. Studies on economic aspects such as crop yields, inputs and outputs of production, productivity, gross margins and the ...
Corsi, Stefano +8 more
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Frontiers in Environmental Science, 2018 The limitations of conventional agriculture have accelerated the need for a transition to an environmentally and economically sustainable agricultural model. In this regard, the role played by soil organic matter (SOM) is key. Here, we aimed to study the
Felix de Tombeur +4 more
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Ecology and Society, 2018 In this paper I examine the relationship between resilience research and permaculture, a system for the design and creation of human habitats, organizations, and projects rooted in ethics of sustainability, well-being, and equity.
Thomas W. Henfrey
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Peer Community JournalPermaculture is a promising framework to design and manage sustainable food production systems based on mimicking ecosystems. However, there is still a lack of scientific evidence especially on the crop productivity of permaculture systems. In this first
Reiff, Julius +3 more
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Making Black Bloody Rosella Jam [PDF]
, 2016 The rosella (or roselle) plant originated in West Africa, but has been cultivated throughout Africa, Asia and Australia. Not only can rosella be used to make teas and jams, but every part of the plant is edible; the young leaves can be eaten raw and make
Farhana, Ili
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