ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the authors briefly describe the history of the field of agroecology and its main ideas to contextualize the development of urban agroecology. They then highlight how the field of urban agroecology is extending its reach outward toward new horizons. The authors describe a typology of urban agroecosystems and explore the importance of interdisciplinarity in urban agroecological research. Agroecology works towards agricultural management that is grounded in local knowledge, and context-dependent strategies of farmers can be combined with modern ecological understandings. Urban ecology, as a discipline, is broadly concerned with biodiversity within cities, the structure and functioning of urban ecosystems in relation to city features and non-urban counterparts, and the environmental sustainability of urbanization and population growth. Urban ecologists described cities as ecosystems in which humans and animals interact and shape the world around them, and explored how human perceptions influence urban environments and life.
