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Making Urban Commons

open access: yesUser Experience & Urban Creativity, 2022
The urban commons is a public resource that citizens collectively manage and enjoy, but it is also a collective political experience beyond the state and the market (Huron, 2017). Thus, the urban commons is not just a thing, but a particular social relation and the struggle towards the urban commons is also an ongoing social practice that makes ...
openaire   +2 more sources

Effects of Environmental and Health Information on Willingness to Pay for Local and Organic Foods in Taiwan

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Using a lab‐in‐the‐field experiment, we investigate how providing information about food miles and pesticide residue influences willingness to pay (WTP) for potatoes among 407 shoppers in Taiwan, split between a supermarket and a farmers market.
Chiu‐Lin Huang   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Le economie eticamente orientate come dispositivo di mantenimento della risorsa nei processi di commoning: il caso Ballarò a Palermo

open access: yesScienze del Territorio, 2018
Starting from the consideration that commons are a collective construction linked to dynamic forms of social relations, the paper investigates – through a case analysis – the relationship between commoning processes in the field of urbanisation and the ...
Giancarlo Gallitano
doaj   +1 more source

Producing, Appropriating, and Recreating the Myth of the Urban Commons

open access: yes, 2015
This book rethinks the city by examining its various forms of collectivity – their atmospheres, modes of exclusion and self-organization, as well as how they are governed – on the basis of a critical discussion of the notion of urban commons. The idea of
Zapata Campos, María José,   +1 more
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Plaza las Pioneras: An urban feminist space and the politics of the commons

open access: yes
There are very few feminist urban public spaces in the world and even fewer urban feminist commons. This paper focuses on the initiative and functioning of the Plaza las Pioneras in Montevideo, Uruguay.
Levy, Charmain, Celiberti, Lilian
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Agricultural Diversification at the Margin. Strategies and Determinants in Italian Mountain and Remote Areas

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper explores the convergence in on‐farm diversification strategies of agricultural holdings, between remote areas and more central ones. Using Italian farm‐level data, we explore the determinants of diversification strategies across farms.
Gianluca Grilli   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Vendor Types, Attendance, Experience and Sales 2019–2021: Evidence From Five Rural Oregon Farmers Markets

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Farmers markets provide a direct‐to‐consumer marketing path for farmers and small businesses, facilitating customer discovery and product refinement. This paper explores farmers markets as a business incubator, with a focus on beginning vendors and resilience to a shock, namely, COVID‐19 market restrictions.
Mallory L. Rahe   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Enhancing Sustainability Label Effectiveness Through Logo Design Modification: An Analysis of the EU Green Leaf Logo

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Sustainability labels can help support consumers select more socially and environmentally friendly options, thereby enhancing returns for conscientious producers and promoting the transition to a more sustainable food system. However, consumer confusion regarding labels' meaning undermines their effectiveness.
Monika Hartmann   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Research Through Design and the Politics of Scale: A Case Study in Brussels Metropolitan Centre, Belgium

open access: yesInternational Journal of the Commons
Through an ex-post analysis of the successes and failures of the Brussels Studies Institute-Brussels Centre Observatory (BSI-BCO)—a multidisciplinary, multi-university research platform dedicated to transforming downtown Brussels—this article aims to ...
Jean-Philippe De Visscher, Aniss Mezoued
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"How do we create together?" Urban food commons as gateway to ecological intelligence

open access: yes, 2014
This study emerged from the author's work in a food commons in industrial East Vancouver. It began from a curiosity about how place impacts who we are. By employing a process oriented research design the study evolved to ask: How may participation in the
Kemshaw, Matthew
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