Rewriting the Plot: Sustaining allotments in the UK and Japan

Local Environment

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 139-151

  Wiltshire, Richard ^a   Azuma, Ren ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b MIE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGENDA 21; FOOD PRODUCTION; HOME GARDEN; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

JAPAN; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 0034030767     PISSN: 13549839     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13549830050009319     Document Type: Article

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