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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"agriculture sustainability"”.
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The Racialization of Relationships Between Higher Education Institutions and Cities: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Changing North Denver
… in their place, a regional hub for research into agriculture, sustainability, and water in the U.S. West will be built. This research study uses Critical Discourse Analysis to explore how the town/gown relationship is unfolding between the university and the community and to learn what will be …
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Freight container farms: a feasibility and sustainability assessment
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2023-09-01 without embargo terms
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Urban productive landscapes: Design strategies for creating self-sustaining communities
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2025-03-28 without embargo terms
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Integrated or monofunctional landscapes? Agent-based modelling for evaluating the socioeconomic implications of land use interventions
The effectiveness of land sharing and land sparing (LS/LS) approaches to conservation in the face of rising agricultural demands has been widely debated. While numerous studies have investigated the LS/LS framework from an ecological lens (yield-biodiversity relationship) the relevance of the …
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Bringing Urban Agriculture to the University of Cincinnati
… pressing. The paradigm of rural, monoculture agriculture has developed many systemic problems, several of which will only worsen as oil resources become limited. Additionally, as urbanization trends continue transporting food great distances will result in excessive food prices. All of these …
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If There Wasn’t Farming, Somebody Wouldn’t Eat: Small Scale Agriculture, Community Autonomy, And Food Sovereignty In Mississippi
… and global conversations about sustainable agriculture and food sovereignty. Employing a multi-scalar method of analysis, the research studies issues from the perspective of individuals, communities, institutions, as well as national and transnational systems. The work draws from previous …
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Sustainably Generating Value-Added Products Using Food-Grade Fungi & Agricultural Waste
<p>Agriculture represents a significant portion of Georgia’s economy. However, this industry produces a significant amount of material byproduct, such as cotton gin trash, and despite research into re-purposing, the uses available are limited and provide little to negative value for producers. Many …
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The Peasant and the Farmer: (Re)Constituting Settler Colonialism and Capitalist Relations in the US Imaginary
… I also show how the United States Department of Agriculture reinforced a settler-capitalist farmer subject-formation in the interest of a "national agriculture" which served to marginalize Black, Indigenous, and non-capitalist ways of being. This dissertation is my contribution to literature …
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Global and regional assessments of unsustainable groundwater use in irrigated agriculture
<p>Groundwater is an essential input to agriculture world-wide, but it is clear that current rates of groundwater use are unsustainable in the long term. This dissertation assesses both current use of groundwater for country- to global-scale agriculture, and looks at the future of groundwater. The …
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Advanced data analysis methods to optimize crop management decisions
… inputs and low productivity, profitability, and sustainability of agricultural systems. Agricultural research aims to update and improve crop management recommendations to match the spatiotemporal variability and the dynamism of production systems. The advances in remote sensing, precision …