REGULATORY AND OTHER BARRIERS TO URBAN AND PERI-URBAN AGRICULTURE: A CASE STUDY OF URBAN PLANNERS AND URBAN FARMERS FROM THE GREATER CHICAGO METROPOLITAN AREA

Regulatory and Other Barriers to Urban and Peri-urban Agriculture: A Case Study of Urban Planners and Urban Farmers from the Greater Chicago Metropolitan Area

Seven perceived barriers to urban and peri-urban agriculture in the Toilet Seat Covers greater Chicago metropolitan area are identified through interviews with urban planners and farmers.All seven perceived barriers involve unclear or agriculture-unfriendly regulations governing urban and peri-urban agriculture.Results suggest that urban and Floor

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Past, present and future trends in the remediation of heavy-metal contaminated soil - Remediation techniques applied in real soil-contamination events

Most worldwide policy frameworks, including the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, highlight soil as a key non-renewable natural resource which should be rigorously preserved to achieve long-term global sustainability.Although some soil is naturally enriched with heavy metals (HMs), a series of anthropogenic activities are known to contr

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Het Bijbelse scheppingsverhaal en de natuurwetenschap

The following article, by A.A.Manten of the Netherlands, was published in KOERS in March and April 1959 (Volume XXVI, numbers 9 & 10) as part of a centenary debate on evolution and Darwinism.He deals with the fact that the Bible does not have the intention of teaching scientific fact - and this leads him to the point that Interpretation is of param

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