REGULATORY AND OTHER BARRIERS TO URBAN AND PERI-URBAN AGRICULTURE: A CASE STUDY OF URBAN PLANNERS AND URBAN FARMERS FROM THE GREATER CHICAGO METROPOLITAN AREA

Seven perceived barriers to urban and peri-urban agriculture in the greater Chicago metropolitan area are identified through interviews with urban planners and farmers.All seven perceived barriers involve unclear or Water Bottle agriculture-unfriendly regulations governing urban and peri-urban agriculture.Results suggest that urban and peri-urban f

This paper reviews the results of a comprehensive investigation including more than 100 fatigue damage cases, reported for steel and composite bridges.The MOISTURE REPAIR SET damage cases are categorized according to types of detail.The mechanisms behind fatigue damage in each category are identified and studied.It was found that more than 90% of a

In energy harvesting wireless sensor networks (EHWSNs), the energy tension of the network can be relieved by obtaining the energy from the surrounding environment, but the cost on hardware cannot be ignored.Therefore, how to minimize the cost of energy harvesting hardware to reduce the network deployment cost, and further optimize the network perfo