Advances in controlled environment agriculture

by Oliver Körner (Editor), Oliver Körner (Contribution by), Gundula Proksch (Editor), Gundula Proksch (Contribution by), Miguel R. C. Costa (Contribution by)

Overview

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).

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781835451472
Publisher:	Burleigh Dodds Science Publishing
Publication date:	09/22/2026
Series:	Burleigh Dodds Series in Agricultural Science , #178
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	500

About the Author

Dr Oliver Körner is a Senior Scientist and Head of the Department of Next-Generation Horticultural Systems (HORTSYS) at the world-renowned Leibniz Institute of Vegetable and Ornamental Crops (IGZ), Germany. He leads the HORTSYS 2 Research Group and is Acting Head of the PA HORTSYS Research Group. Dr Körner is internationally known for his expertise in the controlled environment cultivation of horticultural crops, particularly modelling plant-environment interactions in protected cultivation.

Dr Gundula Proksch is an Associate Professor in the Department of Architecture within the College of Built Environments at the University of Washington, USA, where she is also an Adjunct Associate Professor in the Department of Landscape Architecture. She is Founding Director of the Circular City + Living Systems Lab (CSSL), an interdisciplinary group applying circular economy principles to building and city design. Professor Proksch is Principal Investigator of the National Science Foundation-funded CITIFOODS Project which is investigating the broader development of aquaponic systems in urban environments.

Dr Toyoki Kozai is the former President of Chiba University, Japan, where he is now an Emeritus Professor. Professor Kozai is also the Honorary President of the Japan Plant Factory Association (JPFA) and a former President of The Agricultural Academy of Japan. As a pioneer of indoor plant factories with artificial lighting (PFALs), also referred to as indoor vertical farming, Professor Kozai is widely regarded as one of the founding figures in PFALs, and vertical farming. He has edited a number of books on PFALs and is the author of over 300 publications on controlled environment agriculture technologies.

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: Manuel Muñoz Rodríguez, University of Almeria, Spain;
• 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;