Urban Peri urban Horticulture for Environmental Services and Adaptation to Climate Change
authored by Alka Singh
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Urban Periurban Horticulture for Environmental Services and Adaptation to Climate Change presents a comprehensive academic perspective on the role of horticulture in addressing the environmental, nutritional and socioeconomic challenges associated with rapid urbanization. The book explores urban and peri-urban horticulture as an integrated approach to greening cities, improving food and nutritional security, utilizing limited land and water resources efficiently, and enhancing environmental quality.
The chapters discuss the importance of horticultural plants in providing ecological and environmental services, including carbon sequestration, improvement of air quality, reduction of urban heat, biodiversity conservation and creation of healthier urban environments. Particular attention is given to vertical gardens, roof gardens, indoor plants, landscaping, green spaces and zero-land-utilization approaches for densely populated urban areas.
The book also examines the utilization and recycling of wastewater, nutritional security through fruits and vegetables, urban and peri-urban floriculture, protected cultivation, fruit production, post-harvest management and marketing. It highlights the importance of environmentally sound production practices, biological pest management, water recycling and sustainable horticultural technologies.
Chapter 1. Urban Periurban Horticulture for Environmental Services and Adaptation to Climate Change
Chapter 2. Need of UPH in the Present Scenario of Horticulture in India
Chapter 3. Fruits and Vegetables for Healthy Urban Living
Chapter 4. Water Management in Urban and Periurban Horticulture
Chapter 5. Softscapes for Urban Space
Chapter 6. Innovations in Exterior Urban Landscaping
Chapter 7. Influence of Horticulture on Urban Ecology
Chapter 8. Residential and Ornamental Gardens
Chapter 9. Greening Urban Areas: An Option for Adoption to Climate Change
Chapter 10. Indoor Plants for a Healthy and Productive Urban Lifestyle
Chapter 11. Urban Biodiversity and Horticulture
Chapter 12. Urban and Periurban Orcharding
Chapter 13. Protected Cultivation of Cucurbit Crops in Urban and Periurban Areas
Chapter 14. Protected Cultivation of Flower Crops in Urban and Peri-Urban Areas
Chapter 15. Banana Waste Utilization in Urban and Periurban Areas
Chapter 16. Environment Friendly Pest Management in UPH
Chapter 17. Environment Friendly Disease Management in UPH
Keywords
Urban horticulture, peri-urban horticulture, urban and peri-urban agriculture, environmental services, climate change adaptation, climate-resilient horticulture, urban greening, sustainable horticulture, urban agriculture, vertical gardens, roof gardens, urban landscaping, protected cultivation, urban floriculture, urban fruit production, urban vegetable production, wastewater recycling in horticulture, food and nutritional security, carbon sequestration, sustainable urban development