Sustainable Development Through Urban Agriculture

• Main Author: Weaver, Eric R. R.
• Format: Others
• Published: Scholar Commons 2017
• Subjects: Stormwater Management Model; Entrepreneurship; Social Capital; Planetary Boundaries; Stormwater BMPs; Other Education; Sustainability; Water Resource Management
• Online Access: http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/6636; http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=7833&context=etd

This document includes three completed publications to represent Urban Agriculture as a ideal solution to meet the UN Sustainable Development Goals. The first publication (Weaver, 2017a) provided in Chapter Two examines the stormwater Best Management Practices (BMP) modelling parameters for the current EPA Stormwater Management Model (SWMM) as the first step to developing Urban Agriculture BMPs. The second publication (Weaver, 2015) provided in Chapter Three highlights how many high-rated scholars have identified agriculture as a critical driver for the planetary systems impacts we find with community development. The third publication (Weaver, 2017b) provided in Chapter Four breaks down a completely new definition for Urban Agriculture, as the foundational works disagree on meaning, resulting in an ambiguous definition. Together, these publications encourage engineers to model Sustainable Development options with green infrastructure (Weaver, 2017a), distinct from the Planetary Systems impacts of other contemporary options (Weaver, 2015), with a greater understanding of the social capital to engage stakeholders in meeting the UN Sustainable Development Goals (Weaver, 2017b).