Commercial urban agriculture is typically restricted to agriculture land use, green or open
spaces, or under-utilised or undeveloped land. As urbanising cities face the double threats …

Ecosystem services provide considerable development opportunities, including
incorporating land use planning and enhancing climate change resilience in peri-urban …

Research and practice during the last 20 years has shown that urban agriculture can
contribute to minimising the effects of climate change by, at the same time, improving quality …

Transitional peri-urban contexts are frontiers for sustainable development where land-use
change involves negotiation and contestation between diverse interest groups. Multiple …

The focus of this review is on how plants respond to combinations of multiple air pollutants.
Global pollution trends, plant physiological responses and ecological perspectives in natural …

In recent years, air quality issues due to fine particulate matter have been sufficiently treated.
However, ozone (O3) has now become the primary pollutant in summer on the North China …

Peri-urban landscapes are highly dynamic with regard to their land use, social, economic
and ecological constructs. Urbanization has its impact outside its boundary and is …

Increasing tropospheric ozone concentration is a big threat to food security due to its
phytotoxicity. It causes a huge damage to crop production across the globe, especially in the …

Agriculture is the main land-use type in many parts of the world; in Europe, it covers
approximately 50% of the global surface (European Commission, 2015). As such, the impact …

Mitigation of air pollution is the major global challenge in the current world. Quality of air is
undergoing continuous deterioration due to industrial and urban development. The present …