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Cultivating More Than Food: Where Community Gardens Fit with What Cities Do: Response #3 to Hallsworth and Wong’s viewpoint

Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development, 2016
First paragraphs: Hallsworth and Wong's viewpoint (2013) asserts that urban gardening, and by extension, other local food initiatives (farmers' markets, etc.) are insufficient strategies to replace the quantity and efficiency provided by contemporary ...
Terri L. Evans, Christiana Miewald
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How Are Australian Local Governments Responding to the Homelessness Crisis? Findings From a National Study

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Australian local governments are facing intensifying pressures to respond to worsening visible homelessness. This paper presents one of the first national studies on how local governments are responding to these pressures, and the first since the onset of the post‐pandemic housing crisis.
Andrew Clarke, Joelle Moore, Fatemeh Aminpour, Katya Eagles   +3 more
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Urban Gardening and Green Space Governance: Towards New Collaborative Planning Practices

, 2016
In the context of urban densification and central urban areas’ lack of open spaces, new forms of small-scale urban gardening practices have emerged.
Tappert, Simone, Sofia Nikolaidou, Nikolaidou, Sofia, Drilling, Matthias, Matthias Drilling, Klöti, Tanja, Tanja Klöti, Simone Tappert   +7 more
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The human foundations of anatomy at The University of Sydney: One hundred and one years of body procurement

Anatomical Sciences Education, EarlyView.
Abstract Body procurement at The University of Sydney has a long history. Anatomy legislation (1881 Anatomy Act) modeled on the British Anatomy Act 1832 legalized procurement of unclaimed bodies from public institutions for anatomical dissection at licensed Schools of Anatomy, effectively conferring the University of Sydney an exclusive license until ...
Rebekah A. Jenkin, Kevin A. Keay
wiley   +1 more source

L’apport du jardinage urbain de Russie à la théorisation de l’agriculture urbaine

VertigO, 2010
The main object of this article is the collective urban gardening of Russia, with references to the other types of gardening made by the inhabitants of cities on urban, outer-urban, agricultural, building or not building grounds.
Louiza Boukharaeva, Marcel Marloie
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Gardener demographics, experience, and motivations drive differences in plant species richness and composition in urban gardens

Ecology and Society, 2020
Urban agriculture has received considerable attention for its role in supporting biodiversity and ecosystem services, and health and well-being for growing urban populations.
Stacy M. Philpott, Monika H. Egerer, Peter Bichier, Hamutahl Cohen, Roseann Cohen, Heidi Liere, Shalene Jha, Brenda B. Lin   +7 more
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String Figuring young children's perspectives of quality in English early childhood education and care

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Quality in early childhood education and care (ECEC) is a contested concept and has generally been conceptualised by inter‐related indicators such as staff qualifications, educational environment, policy or child‐to‐staff ratios. There has been a more limited emphasis on how young children might perceive and experience quality.
Nikki Fairchild, Éva Mikuska
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Home Food Gardening: Benefits and Barriers During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Santiago, Chile

Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems, 2022
The recent COVID-19 pandemic has changed the way people live in an unprecedented way. This includes severe impacts on people's health and wellbeing such as stress, reduced physical activity and loneliness due to confinement.
Constanza Cerda, Solène Guenat, Monika Egerer, Leonie K. Fischer   +3 more
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Urban Gardening: Cultivating More Than Just Produce [PDF]

, 2006
Report: iv, 15 pp.; ill., digital fileThe two sustainable development goals of high-density development and urban gardening have conflicted with each other in recent decades.
Zubrycki, Karla
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Making it explicit – Sustained shared thinking dialogue as a way to explore children's perspectives on quality in German early childhood education and care

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract To negotiate quality in early childhood education and care, we must ask from different perspectives what constitutes a good centre for children. The children themselves have only recently been identified as a resource to contribute to that discussion.
Katrin Macha, Frauke Hildebrandt, Caroline Wronski, Jan Lonnemann, Mathias Urban   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source