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Record W2279149877 · doi:10.14288/1.0075678

Key urban agriculture trends in Vancouver for 2040

2014· article· en· W2279149877 on OpenAlexaboutno aff
Gabrielle Lhotka

Bibliographic record

VenuecIRcle (University of British Columbia) · 2014
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldAgricultural and Biological Sciences
TopicUrban Agriculture and Sustainability
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsKey (lock)AgricultureUrban agricultureGeographyEnvironmental planningComputer scienceComputer securityArchaeology

Abstract

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The aim is to find and analyse the localized trends of urban agriculture that are taking place in Vancouver and then categorize them according to their efficiency, viability and long-term potential, as we are looking at a 2040 time frame, with their barriers and enablers. Literature reviews were executed to understand theory, ideology, concepts and local trends from periodicals and websites to gain an extensive understanding of urban agriculture in the wide scope. Urban agriculture within the city of Vancouver is struggling to find a long-term foothold due to many issues including: Overuse/misuse of technology, Funding (underfunding or poor budgeting), Community attitudes, Lack of knowledge about agriculture/food safety, Long-term, sustained relevance, Bureaucratic struggles and Lack of usable space in terms of a growing city. Having stated the barriers urban agriculture trends are facing in Vancouver for 2040 I would recommend focusing on those trends that emphasize: strong community involvement through social media and programs, therefore securing the long-term commitment of the people supporting and encouraging them; educational programs that teach the community to overcome their fears of agriculture and prepare them to individually explore farming; movable or adaptable planting spaces with technology and permaculture models that complement yet do not detract from the purpose at hand; and alternative food assets such as farmers markets and kitchens that complement the agricultural processes and reach out to the community also maintaining the profit cycles and closed-looped energy systems. Having community gardens incorporate these trends in manners such as SOLE food has, but taking them a step further to include other spaces and technological benefits would be ideal.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.085
Threshold uncertainty score0.171

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0030.010
Science and technology studies0.0030.001
Scholarly communication0.0040.001
Open science0.0010.001
Research integrity0.0010.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0060.001

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.006
GPT teacher head0.151
Teacher spread0.145 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designObservational
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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