Urbanization and achieving sustainable agriculture are both major societal challenges. By
reducing food miles and connecting people with nature, food cultivation in cities has several …

Urbanisation patterns in Europe since the 1950s have resulted in a swath of low-density
discontinuous development, commonly called peri-urban areas. These areas are …

The Covid-19 pandemic newly brings food resilience in cities to our attention and the need
to question the desired degree of food self-sufficiency through urban agriculture. While these …

Dispersed urbanization has expanded into rural land worldwide. The present work focused
on the Athens' metropolitan area, the capital of Greece, discussing the potential role of a …

Land-use suitability analysis is of significance for the planning and management of cities.
The main objective of this study was to develop a spatial model for land suitability …

Cities, which now host the majority of the global population, are vulnerable to environmental
and socio-economic disturbances, which are likely to increase in number and severity in the …

Concerns about sustainable food supply in a city-region context increasingly spark cities'
authorities to consider their peri-urban area as a source of food. However, such an …

Urban Sprawl, and the fragmentation of the territory associated with it, are factors degrading
the peri-urban areas in many European cities. The aim of this research is to investigate the …

Recent studies have proven that vegetables cultivated in peri-urban areas are exposed to a
greater concentration of organic microcontaminants (OMCs) and trace elements (TEs) than …

More and more cities develop urban food strategies (UFSs) to guide their efforts and
practices towards more sustainable food systems. An emerging theme shaping these food …