Advances in controlled environment agriculture

Description

With concerns about the impact of global warming in increasing the risk and unpredictability of adverse weather conditions, there is growing interest in various types of controlled environment agriculture (CEA), from the relatively simple screen and net houses designed to create more favourable microclimates for crops to hermetic plant factories with fully-controlled environments.

Advances in controlled environment agriculture provides a detailed review of current research on different CEA systems, including those that rely on simple passive climate control strategies, to approaches that support a high level of technical control. The book also considers ways of optimising resource use, including energy, light, water nutrients and substrates, as well as implementation strategies for rural, peri-urban and urban applications.

The book builds on a successful range of earlier volumes published by Burleigh Dodds Science: Achieving sustainable greenhouse cultivation (2019), Advances in horticultural soilless culture (2020) and Advances in plant factories: New technologies in indoor vertical farming (2023).

Table of contents

Part 1 Controlled environment agriculture systems

• 1.History and development of controlled environment agriculture: Miguel R. C. Costa, Instituto Superior de Agronomia, Portugal;
• 2.Controlled environment agriculture (CEA) and the energy transition: the role of CEA in the road to net zero and energy self-sufficiency: George Xydis, Aarhus University, Denmark;
• 3.Advances in climate-controlled greenhouses: Oliver Körner, Leibniz Institute of Vegetable and Ornamental Crops, Germany;
• 4.Advances in urban rooftop greenhouses: Gundula Proksch, University of Washington, USA;
• 5.Advances in passive lean-to greenhouses: Qichang Yang, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, China;

Part 2 Climate control and light management

• 6.Optimising climate control in controlled environment agriculture: Xiuming Hao, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Canada;
• 7.Climate control systems in controlled environment agriculture: J. B. Campen, Wageningen University and Research, The Netherlands;
• 8.Use of supplemental lighting in greenhouses: K. J. Bergstrand, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Sweden;
• 9.Use of LED lighting in indoor farms: Youbin Zheng, Univeristy of Guelph, Canada;

Part 3 Water, nutrients, substrates and operation

• 10.Advances in hydroponic systems: Dimitrios Savvas, Agricultural University of Athens, Greece;
• 11.Advances in aquaponic systems: Sara Pinho, University of Melbourne, Australia;
• 12.Optimising plant nutrition in controlled environmental agriculture: Neil Mattson, Cornell University, USA;
• 13.Advances in organic substrates and soil-based systems: Youbin Zheng, Univeristy of Guelph, Canada;
• 14.Life cycle analysis of controlled environmental agricultural systems: Thomas Bartzanas, Agricultural University of Athens, Greece;

Part 4 Automation and modelling

• 15.Modelling and automation to optimise controlled environment agricultural production: Stefan Streif, University of Chemnitz, Germany;
• 16.Advances in robotics and automated production and harvesting systems in controlled environment agriculture: Fátima Baptista, University of Évora, Portugal;
• 17.Lighting simulations in greenhouses: Mehlika Inanici, University of Washington, USA;
• 18.Managing plant canopy and root system environments in next-generation PFALs: Toyoki Kozai, Chiba University, Japan;
• 19.Round-up: decision support systems (DSS) for controlled environment agriculture: Oliver Körner, Leibniz Institute of Vegetable and Ornamental Crops, Germany;