Environmental impact assessment of organic and conventional tomato production in urban greenhouses of Beijing city, China

He, Xueqing; Liu, Yuexian; Dendler, Leonie; Yin, Cheng Bo; Martin, Friederike

doi:10.1016/j.jclepro.2015.12.004

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“…To date, most of these studies have focused on the quantification of the environmental impact of urban agriculture case studies, whereas the literature on social and economic sustainability studies is still limited. The quantification of environmental sustainability has been performed for multiple studies, from the system to the national level, paying particular attention to the comparison with conventional food production [15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22]. Life cycle assessment (LCA) and carbon footprint methods have been employed most frequently in these studies.…”

Section: Quantifying the Sustainability Of Ufpmentioning

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Revisiting the Sustainability Concept of Urban Food Production from a Stakeholders’ Perspective

Sanyé‐Mengual¹,

Orsini²,

Gianquinto³

2018

Sustainability

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Urban Food Production (UFP) initiatives are expanding worldwide to enhance urban food production while contributing to the development of sustainable cities in a three-bottom perspective (environment, society, economy). Although the sustainability aspects of UFS have been addressed in the literature, there is a need to set a sustainability framework for UFP based on the concepts and the understanding of the stakeholders as a basis for quantifying their sustainability and for developing effective policy-making. This paper evaluates the concepts of the UFP sustainability from a stakeholders' perspective through participatory methods and network analyses. Two different workshops were organized in the city of Bologna (Italy), where mind-mapping exercises to define the environmental, economic and social sustainability elements of UFP were performed. This bottom-up approach unveiled a comprehensive and complex vision of sustainable UFP, the relevance of certain sustainability elements and key aspects to take into consideration for the development of UFP and effective policy-making. The existence of bidimensional and tridimensional concepts indicated priorities, synergies and trade-offs among the dimensions of sustainability. The multi-scalar nature of UFP suggested that specific policies can be supported by global schemes (e.g., Sustainable Development Goals) and that UFP can be a local tool for democracy and equity at lower scales.

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Section: Quantifying the Sustainability Of Ufpmentioning

confidence: 99%

Revisiting the Sustainability Concept of Urban Food Production from a Stakeholders’ Perspective

Sanyé‐Mengual¹,

Orsini²,

Gianquinto³

2018

Sustainability

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“…In this line, a study on home gardens in Australia assessed the variables affecting water consumption in gardens, underlining the role of lifestyle and garden management practices [46]. However, no study have quantified the environmental impacts of urban food production in home gardens-thereby considering all the external inputs and the resulting productivity, unlike other typologies of UA (e.g., rooftop agriculture, community gardening, aquaponics) [47][48][49][50][51][52][53][54][55].…”

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Eco-Efficiency Assessment and Food Security Potential of Home Gardening: A Case Study in Padua, Italy

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Abstract:In the expanding urban agriculture phenomenon in Europe, home gardens are a traditional form that have kept agriculture within cities, even becoming crucial in certain historical periods (e.g., war periods). However, horticultural practices in home gardens can also have negative consequences. The goal of this paper is to assess the eco-efficiency of home gardens as a type of urban agriculture. To do so, a case study in Padua (Italy) was evaluated following life cycle assessment and life cycle costing methods. A home garden of 30.6 m 2 and 21 crop cycles were evaluated. The functional unit of the assessment was 1 kg of harvested fresh vegetable at the consumption point, and the ReCiPe method was employed for impact assessment. Environmental assessment indicated that organic fertilization, use of tap water, mineral fertilization and pesticides were the most contributing elements of the entire life cycle. Furthermore, the relevance of garden design and crop selection was a determinant in the eco-efficiency results. The assessed home garden could satisfy the food requirements of between 1 and 2 members of the household. Crop management and design recommendations are provided to improve eco-efficiency and food security potential of home gardens.

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“…Yet, few indicators have been developed for each area by the scholars so far. Some indicators have been applied for models, such as those of the potential risks of nitrogen leaching (Lidon et al, 2013) and pesticide use (Pawelzik and Möller, 2014), as well as CO2 emission or global warming (He et al, 2016) and some like (EU), LU, WUE of irrigation, and EBZ have been directly measured (Brentrup et The global production of potato crop is most dramatically increasing in the developing world. Until the early 1990s, most potatoes were being grown in the Russian Federation, Europe, and North America.…”

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Environmental Impact Assessment (Eia) of Alternative Potato Cropping Systems in Hamadan Province, Iran

Rezaei¹

2018

Appl. Ecol. Env. Res.

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Abstract. Potato is a staple food crop and a most important agricultural commodity in Hamadan Province, Iran. However, the province is facing such problems as water scarcity, nitrate pollution, and plant disease epidemics. This study explored the environmental impact assessment of potato cropping systems in Hamadan Province, Iran. To this purpose, 8 agri-environmental indicators were used for the EIAs of 4 potato cropping systems. These indicators included environmental potential risk indicator for pesticides, water use efficiency, nitrogen leaching, CO 2 emission, energy use, biodiversity, golden potato cyst nematode, and land use. The 4 systems included traditional potato system, quasi-industrial potato system, industrial potato system, and government-promoted potato system and 5 groups of features were used to describe the mentioned systems: (1) irrigation methods; (2) seed placement; (3) machinery use; (4) agrochemical use; and (5) crops rotation. The results revealed that the traditional potato system had the lowest negative impact on the environment. Of the potato production systems studied, the government-promoted potato system, quasi-industrial potato system, and industrial potato system had successively fewer negative effects on the environment. Finally, some strategies are recommended for designing a new benchmark encompassing environmental thresholds using agri-environmental indicator scores and their relationships.

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Environmental impact assessment of organic and conventional tomato production in urban greenhouses of Beijing city, China

Cited by 131 publications

References 18 publications

Revisiting the Sustainability Concept of Urban Food Production from a Stakeholders’ Perspective

Revisiting the Sustainability Concept of Urban Food Production from a Stakeholders’ Perspective

Eco-Efficiency Assessment and Food Security Potential of Home Gardening: A Case Study in Padua, Italy

Environmental Impact Assessment (Eia) of Alternative Potato Cropping Systems in Hamadan Province, Iran

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