The vertical farm : feeding the world in the 21st century / Dickson Despommier.

  • Despommier, Dickson D.
Date:
2010
  • Books

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Description

When the author, a Columbia professor, set out to solve America's food, water, and energy crises, he didn't just think big, he thought up. His stroke of genius, the vertical farm, has excited scientists, architects, and politicians around the globe. These multi-story intensely managed indoor farms, grown inside skyscrapers, are capable of producing traditional greenhouse crops, as well as pigs and fowl, year-round. They would provide solutions to many of the serious problems the world is facing.

Publication/Creation

New York : Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press, 2010.

Physical description

xiv, 305 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations, color maps ; 25 cm

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Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Remodeling nature -- Yesterday's agriculture -- Today's agriculture -- Tomorrow's agriculture -- The vertical farm: advantages -- The vertical farm: form and function -- The vertical farm: social benefits -- The vertical farm: alternate uses -- Food fast-forwarded.

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    History of Medicine
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ISBN

  • 9780312611392
  • 0312611390