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This book provides a much needed overview of the agrourbanism topic in the context of territorial studies. It carefully looks at rural, urban, periurban farming in both professional and unprofessional capacities as one of the main sustainable forms of land use and management. This cutting edge text explores the various forms of agricultural and urban planning, as well as the main innovations that the agro-urban approach entails in terms of governance, spatial dimensions and functions. Agrourbanism provides a breadth of information and serves as a practical study of concerns facing policy and decision makers, planners and landscape managers, as well as farmers, managers of protected areas, local authorities and local action groups.  As such this book is suitable as a course accompaniment to provide an overview of the complexity of agro-urban issues.

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Enrico Gottero is lecturer in Landscape and Regional Planning at the Interuniversity Department of Regional and Urban Studies and Planning (Politecnico di Torino), as well as researcher at the Institute of Economic and Social Research of Piedmont (IRES Piemonte, Italy). His main interests focus on the interaction between agriculture and rural-agrarian landscapes, urban-rural linkages, farmland preservation, urban agriculture, agri-food policies and practices. He is also author of several publications on these topics, including at international level.

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