New Advances in Hydroponics and Aquaponics for Urban Agriculture
A special issue of Water (ISSN 2073-4441). This special issue belongs to the section "Water, Agriculture and Aquaculture".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 April 2023) | Viewed by 17534
Special Issue Editors
Interests: aquaponics; hydroponics; aquatic microbiology; biocontrol of plant pathogen in aquatic environment; microbial wastewater treatment; water quality measurement; urban agriculture
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Interests: aquaponics; hydroponics; wastewater-fed aquaculture; constructed wetlands; urban agriculture; zero emission buildings; building integrated agriculture
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Hydroponics production has been evolving for more than 90 years. From the 1950s to the early 2000s, most of the developments were achieved in the context of intensive, high tech, and large scale production. These improvements resulted in a very productive sector that made efficient use of water and nutrients.
More recently, various innovative strategies have been explored in order to adapt hydroponics to urban and peri-urban environments all over the world. This exploration involves the drastic diversification of the techniques, space occupation, social, and economic models. The lack of space in cities has stimulated the development of vertical systems, small scale farms, and the occupation of new spaces such as building basements, rooftops, and contenairs. The level of technicality was either increased in order to obtain higher productivity and efficiency or otherwise simplified to decrease the cost while maintaining production. Most systems also increased their circularity either within the system by improving the energy, water, and nutrient efficiency (or by integrating other organism such as fish at the community level) or by reusing materials and organic waste available in and around cities.
All these new approaches and their impact on the technicality and business models/economics of the process can be defined as a new advance in urban agriculture.
Prof. Dr. M. Haïssam Jijakli
Prof. Dr. Ranka Junge
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- hydroponic
- bioponic
- aquaponic
- urban
- low tech
- high tech
- microbiota
- energy
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