Abstract

Population grows fastest in the world’s urban and metropolitan cities, the number of inhabitants in so-called metropolitan cities and in urban and suburban zones are expanding into the surrounding natural landscape. Consequence of these changes is the gradual displacement of natural greenery and nature from cities and newly created residential satellites designed to build residential and public amenities. In recent years, is more commonly used sustainable development phenomenon which has become as a responding trend to of cities and municipalities and the implementation of so-called urban gardens intended for growing crops within the communities of the population. In view of mentioned facts the presented article focuses on ecological urban agriculture in terms of the main components of sustainability as an element contributing to the sustainable development of cities and suburban zones.

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Title
Ecological Urban Agriculture from the Point of View Basic Elements of Sustainability
Author
Posivakova, Terezia 1 ; Svajlenka, Jozef 2 ; Hromada, Rudolf 1 ; Korim, Peter 1 

 University of Veterinary Medicine and Pharmacy in Košice, Department of the Environment, Veterinary Legislation and Economy, Komenského 73, 041 81 Košice, Slovak Republic 
 Technical University of Košice, Faculty of Civil Engineering, Department of Construction Technology and Management, Vysokoškolská 4, 042 00 Košice, Slovak Republic 
Publication year
2019
Publication date
Sep 2019
Publisher
IOP Publishing
ISSN
17578981
e-ISSN
1757899X
Source type
Scholarly Journal
Language of publication
English
ProQuest document ID
2561231540
Copyright
© 2019. This work is published under http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ (the “License”). Notwithstanding the ProQuest Terms and Conditions, you may use this content in accordance with the terms of the License.