Smart Plant Factory The Next Generation Indoor Vertical Farms /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Kozai, Toyoki (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Singapore : Springer Singapore : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: Agriculture.; Sustainable development.; Management.; Industrial management.; Urban geography.; Plant science.; Botany.; Biotechnology.; Sustainable Development.; Innovation/Technology Management.; Urban Geography / Urbanism (inc. megacities, cities, towns).; Plant Sciences.

This book describes the concept, characteristics, methodology, design, management, business, recent advances and future technologies of plant factories with artificial lighting (PFAL) and indoor vertical farms. The third wave of PFAL business started in around 2010 in Japan and Taiwan, and in USA an...