
The Vertical Farm
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A volume in the Nextgen Agriculture series, this book is valuable to scientists, practitioners, and students in urban agriculture and planning, horticulture, engineering, landscape architecture, and plant/technology sciences.
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Dr. Andrew Keong Ng is an Associate Professor with Singapore Institute of Technology. He is the Programme Leader of the Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering, the Master of Engineering Technology and the Bachelor of Engineering with Honours in Sustainable Infrastructure Engineering (Land), and the Bachelor of Engineering with Honours in Engineering Systems. Moreover, Dr. Ng is a Chartered Engineer with the UK Engineering Council and serves on the committees of various international and local professional engineering institutions, such as Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), Institution of Engineers Singapore (IES), Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET), and Institution of Railway Signal Engineers (IRSE). He is a Senior Member of IEEE and IES; a Consultant and Advisor to startups and multinational corporations; and a Topic Editor of Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute journals. In addition, Dr. Ng is a Principal Investigator of several grants amounting to more than SGD 1.5 million. He holds one international patent and has over 30 publications as both first and corresponding author. His research and development innovations have also garnered him several prestigious awards, such as Outstanding Researcher Award, Teaching Excellence Award, Amity Researcher Award, Young Investigator Award, and National Instruments Editor's Choice Engineering Impact Award. Furthermore, Dr. Ng has been a keynote and an invited speaker at various international conferences. He has also been frequently quoted and interviewed by news media on railway transportation issues and current affairs.
Dr. Abel Tablada is a Full Professor at the Technological University of Havana (CUJAE) where he leads the discipline of Environmental Conditioning and focuses on carbon-neutral architecture and urbanism. He holds a Doctorate in Engineering and a Master of Architecture in Human Settlements from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. He also holds a Master of Architecture and Conservation from the Cuban Center for Conservation, Restoration and Museology. Dr. Tablada had a significant role in the Heritage Architecture of the Office of Havana's Historian, focusing on building restoration and research on natural ventilation and thermal comfort. He joined the National University of Singapore in 2011 and cofounded the NUS-CDL Tropical Technologies Lab where he completed a research project on the integration of solar energy and farming systems in productive facades. Dr. Tablada has published over 20 scientific articles and books chapters on urban and building physics, building integrated agriculture, and solar energy systems. He has been a guest professor/lecturer at over 15 universities and institutions and has been awarded with research and design recognitions, including the Japan Prize on urban climate research, two National Prizes on Design and Building Restoration, and a 1st Prize at the Caribbean Biennale of Architecture.
Dr. Chittaranjan Kole is an internationally reputed scientist with an illustrious professional career spanning over thirty-seven years and original contributions in the fields of plant genomics, biotechnology and molecular breeding leading to the publication of more than 160 quality research articles and reviews. He has edited over 150 books for the leading publishers of the world including Springer, Wiley-Blackwell and Taylor and Francis Group. His scientific contributions and editing acumen have been appreciated by seven Nobel Laureates, including Profs. Norman Borlaug, Arthur Kornberg, Werner Arber, Phillip Sharp, Guenter Blobel, Lee Hartwell and Roger Kornberg. He has been honored with a number of Fellowships, Honorary Fellowships, and national and international awards, including the Outstanding Crop Scientist award conferred by the International Crop Science Society. He has served at all prestigious positions in academia including as Vice-Chancellor of BC Agricultural university, Project Coordinator of Indo-Russian Center of Biotechnology in India, and Director of Research of Institute of Nutraceutical Research of Clemson University, in USA. He worked also in the Pennsylvania State University and Clemson University as Visiting Professor in USA. Recently, he has been awarded with the Raja Ramanna Fellow by the Department of Energy, Government of India. He is also heading the International Climate-Resilient Crop Genomics Consortium, International Phytomedomics and Nutriomics Consortium and Genome India International as their founding President.
Content
Chapter 2: Cultivating Tomorrow: An Overview of Vertical Farming (K. Al-Kodmany)
Chapter 3: Vertical Farm Lighting Systems: Ways and Means to Increase Their Efficiency (D. A. Filatov)
Chapter 4: Vertical Farming Systems on Building Envelopes (A Tablada & V Kosoric)
Chapter 5: Social acceptance of urban farming on building skins (V Kosoric)
Chapter 6: Digital agriculture: from concept to implementation (Chien Szu-Cheng)
Chapter 7: Internet of Agricultural Things for Indoor Farming (Akmal Nizam Bin Mohammed)
Chapter 8: A Review on Technological Advances and Challenges in Aquaponics (Andrew Keong Ng)
Chapter 9: Microalgae-based recirculating aquaculture system (Wuang Shy Chyi)
Chapter 10: Variety Improvement for Closed Controlled Environments (Kevin M. Folta)
Chapter 11: Critical requirements to implement vertical farming technologies: the challenge to reduce cost (Jorge Flores Velazquez)
Chapter 12: Energy Efficiency in Indoor Farming: A Malaysian Experience (Mohd Faizal Mohideen Batcha)
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