Rooftop agriculture (RA) is a building-based form of urban agriculture that includes both
protected and nonprotected farming practices, such as rooftop greenhouses as well as open …

The environmental impacts of food systems will increase in tandem with rapid urban
population growth, which calls for alternative solutions, such as urban agriculture, to reach …

Greenhouse cultivation has evolved from simple covered rows of open-fields crops to highly
sophisticated controlled environment agriculture (CEA) facilities that projected the image of …

In light of global population growth and the increasing food demand in cities, new food
production strategies have been developed to promote a more resource-efficient urban …

Urban agriculture systems, such as rooftop greenhouses, are attractive alternatives for
mitigating the impacts of the extensive food supply chains that currently feed cities. In this …

Vertical farming is emerging as an effective measure to grow food in buildings and can
increase food production in urban areas in a more sustainable manner. This study presents …

Local food production through urban agriculture (UA) is promoted as a means to make cities
more sustainable. However, UA does not come free of environmental impacts. In this sense …

A sustainable and secure food supply within a low-carbon and resilient infrastructure is
encapsulated in several of The United Nations' 17 sustainable development goals. The …

Sustainability has practically become a mandatory concept to be considered in every
decision, and multiple decision-making methods have been adapted to take it into account …

The integration of multicriteria decision-making (MCDM) methods with building information
modeling (BIM) provides robust support for decision-making when assessing the …