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A Switch to Commons: The Evolution of the Regulation of Urban Agriculture in Rome, Italy

open access: yesUrban Planning
This article investigates how framing urban agriculture as a “common good” shapes governance structures and fosters participatory processes for sustainable urban development.
Micol Sonnino, Simona Zollet
doaj   +1 more source

Spatially contextualized analysis of energy use for commuting in India

open access: yesEnvironmental Research Letters, 2019
India’s land transport GHG emissions are small in international comparison, but growing exponentially. Understanding of geographically-specific determinants of GHG emissions is crucial to devise low-carbon sustainable development strategies.
Sohail Ahmad, Felix Creutzig
doaj   +1 more source

Urban commons and commoning in Amsterdam east the role of liquid communities and the local government

open access: yesSOCIOLOGIA E POLITICHE SOCIALI, 2019
Urban commons offer new opportunities for looking into citizens’ participation and the role of communities in co-creation. Often the focus is on public and private sector organizations, and the role of citizen collectives are underestimated or even neglected.
Smets, Peer, Azarhoosh, Firoez
openaire   +2 more sources

Pixelated City [PDF]

open access: yes
text for Ahali: A Journal for Setting a Setting 2016 as part of the exhibition program for "Spatial Practices of the Urban Commons" Tenderpixel, London 13 April - 4 June, 2016 http://www.tenderpixel.com/exhibitions/urban ...
Rosamond, Emily
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Linking community structure and climate vulnerability in desert plant assemblages of southern California

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Botany, EarlyView.
Abstract Premise Desert plant assemblages in southern California provide an opportunity to link patterns of community structure with climate‐driven vulnerability in a rapidly changing environment. California sustains an exceptionally diverse flora of approximately 4300 plant species, with 31% identified as endemic.
Hector Zumbado‐Ulate   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Challenges and potentials in collaborative management of urban commons

open access: yes, 2012
Governance of shared resources has been intensely studied by Elinor Ostrom and colleagues. There is a very rich body of work on the governance of shared resources such as fisheries, watersheds, woodlands and the like, These authors have shown that common
Parker, Peter, Johansson, Magnus
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The rain feels different under the same umbrella: Experiences with poverty across LGBTQ subgroups

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract Population‐based survey data have demonstrated that LGBTQ communities report varying rates of economic insecurity, yet very little research directly assesses how pathways into and experiences with poverty look different among subgroups at the intersections of sexual orientation and gender identity (SOGI).
Bianca D. M. Wilson, Lillian Nguyen
wiley   +1 more source

Commoning in the periphery : The role of the commons for understanding rural continuities and change

open access: yes, 2017
This paper explores how commons reproduce over time and introduces the concept of commoning to discuss rural continuities and change. The point of departure is that commons are essential for local community development in that they have an important role
Ann-Kristin Ekman   +8 more
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Immigrant mental health, safe work, discrimination, and state policies: From racism and xenophobia to health equity

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract An ecological model was developed to examine the pathways linking immigration state policies to physically safe work conditions and work volition, interpersonal discrimination, and mental health distress. The ecological framework was tested among two subsamples totaling 529 Latinx immigrant participants: (1) immigrants who resided in states ...
Germán A. Cadenas   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Art, Urban Commons and Social Change

open access: yes, 2022
The discussions of urban commons involve us in breaking up the totalizing notion of those dominated by power as passive consumers and reconsidering how urban life is made as creative production, constantly appropriating and reappropriating the products ...
Yang, Yimeng   +7 more
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