Environmental impact assessment of agro-services symbiosis in semiarid urban frontier territories
In the next 10 years, cities will house 60% of the world's population, where in agro-urban frontier territories, mainly in semiarid regions, problems associated with land use and water distribution will arise. Therefore, a model of growth that contemplates the lowest use of resources must be proposed.
An international research carried out by researchers from the Sostenipra group of ICTA-UAB and the Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas de Argentina assesses the minimization of the environmental impacts of the widespread growth of cities through the integration of urban agriculture and households. The results indicate that a new circular green city model is possible through the symbiosis of water, energy and food flows in agro-services systems.
ICTA-UAB researchers Natalia Bonilla-Gámez, Susana Toboso-Chavero, Felipe Parada, Joan Rieradevall and Xavier Gabarrell together with Bárbara Civit and Alejandro Pablo Arena from the Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas de Argentina of Argentina carried out the study, published in the journal Science of the Total Environment.
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