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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"Community gardening"”.
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Community gardening as social action: the Australian community gardening movement and repertoires for change.
There has been a resurgence of community gardening activity in Australia over the past decade. This coincides with increasing concern about food security, urban sustainability, social isolation and the preservation of community space. Community gardening has been adopted by divergent actors, from …
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The Transformative Possibilities of 'Noticing' in Community Gardening and my Life
… privileged peoples. It is in the projects of community gardening and my life that I have chosen to ‘notice’ the prevalence of a mechanistic, functionalist world view that infuses the moral limitations of dominant order. I have been attentive to noticing how this order influences the …
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Attitudes toward and interest in community gardening in two low-income neighborhoods
… of the study was to determine attitudes toward community gardening and community gardening needs of residents in two low-income neighborhoods, Amett Benson (AB) and Parkway-Cherry Point (PC)neighborhods in the city of Lubbock, Texas, as well as to investigate resources available for community …
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The implementation of two garden projects within a community gardening programme : successes and challenges
… evaluation of two garden projects within a community gardening programme. The Abalimi community gardening programme supports individuals and community groups in the Cape Flats to develop and maintain garden projects, which produce vegetables. The goal of the Abalimi community gardening …
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Implementation and Evaluation of a Community Gardening and Nutrition Program among at-risk Youth
Background: Community-based participatory research (CBPR) has been recommended as an effective approach to engage communities in implementing research projects relevant to their needs and interests. Following this approach, the Dan River Partnership for a Healthy Community was formed to address …
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A culturally tailored community gardening approach to increasing physical activity and psychological health among African American women: A pre-post feasibility study
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2024-09-16 without embargo terms
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Identifying the health, wellbeing and social impacts in older adults using nature-based projects: a case study of care farming and community gardening interventions in Greater Manchester.
… explore urban NBIs, such as care farms (CF) and community gardens (CG), in Greater Manchester (GM), to ascertain their value for the older populations and its role within the wider green movement’. Using in-depth semi-structured interviews with ten older adults, based within case studies and …
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GROWING 'COMMUNITY', PLANTING RESPONSIBILITY, SOWING GOVERNMENTALITY: SINGAPORE'S COMMUNITY GARDENS AS SPACES OF INCLUSIONS AND EXCLUSIONS
Using the `Community in Bloom? (CIB) community gardening project established by the Singapore National Parks Board (NParks) as a case study, this thesis addresses the ways in which the `community? has been conceptually and empirically studied in relation to inclusions and exclusions. By proposing …
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Ethnicity, Nature, and Community Gardens
… the use and design of New York City (NYC)’s community gardens, and how the social processes that characterise community gardening influence gardeners’ notions of ethnicity. The study examines the dialectical relationship between nature and culture in community gardens from the theoretical …
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Understanding people’s perceptions and attitudes toward community garden landscape in Roanoke, Virginia
… economic, and social imbalances in several ways. Community gardens have become a trending interest to minimize the negative consequences of the modern agriculture system, especially in food insecure disadvantaged neighborhoods. Although community gardens have numerous economic, environmental, and …
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Green spaces, Black entrepreneurs: transforming Chicago’s historically marginalized neighborhoods
… to engage in urban greening projects such as community gardening?; (2) What challenges do African American entrepreneurs face in creating and sustaining community gardens?; (3) How do African American entrepreneurs describe the impacts of their work on their communities?; and (4) What systems …
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Cultivating Resilience: The Contribution of Community Gardens during COVID-19 in Pomona, California
… of the different functions and meaning of community gardens to social-ecological resilience during the COVID-19 pandemic. In the Spring of 2021, I conducted mixed method case studies on informal and formal community gardens in Pomona, California. Qualitative methods included open-ended …
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The social production of community garden space: Case studies of Boston, Massachusetts and Havana, Cuba
… and societal characteristics influence community gardening practices and outcomes for individuals and neighborhoods in Havana, Cuba and Boston, Massachusetts. Methods used for this research include demographic analysis, interviews, surveys, field mapping, photo documentation and direct …
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Feeding India: Community Gardens and their Food Security Potential
… to grow, and available during difficult times. Community gardening, as a form of common property, ensures local food security and has the potential to restore lost common resources and land practices to at-risk communities. The privatization of land and commodification of common property …
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How Do Refugees Experience a “Sense Of Place” in a Community Garden? Exploring an Intervention to Mitigate the Consequences of Displacement
… service providers understand the neces-sity for community-based interventions to improve the resettlement process for refugees, using a place attachment model. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with Karen and Chin Burmese (Myanmar) adult refugees who participated in a community garden …
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Growing pains : dealing with excess demand and the conflicting benefits of community gardens in Cambridge, Massachusetts
Community gardens are one of the most popular uses of vacant space in the United States; there are likely over 6,000 operating in the country today. Although only a tiny portion of the population has ever participated in one, people applaud them for a range of benefits including community …
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Sri Lankan Tamil asylum seekers’ experiences of a community garden based trauma intervention: an interpretative phenomenological analysis
… research examines the subjective experiences of community gardening as a trauma psychological intervention in the recovery process of male Sri Lankan Tamils asylum seekers who have been diagnosed with war-related post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). This research is particularly timely given …
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Marae food gardens: health and wellbeing through urban marae in Tāmaki Makaurau
… the current circumstances of Māori engagement in community gardens based within urban marae in Auckland, New Zealand. I employed cultural efficacy theory to determine and analyse how cultural capacity is developed for Māori, and influence of social, cultural and physical environmental factors. …
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Growing a greener Tacoma: The historical roots of Tacoma's urban gardening movement
… to define a clear understanding of the urban gardening movement today, by offering a comprehensive definition of the movement, as well as investigating the reported benefits to individuals and communities of urban gardening. And second, this thesis gives an account of the historical roots of …
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Coming Home to the Land: Natural Farming as Therapeutic Landscape Experience in Chengdu Plain, China
… peri-urban farming, rural-urban integration, and community building that are crystallized in Chengdu Plain, China in recent years. Through the lens of therapeutic landscape experience, individual and community well-being is examined with these questions: (1) what are participants’ experience of …
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