Assessing benefits from allotments as a component of urban agriculture in England

Agropolis: The Social, Political and Environmental Dimensions of Urban Agriculture

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 239-266

  Perez Vasquez, Arturo ^a   Anderson, Simon ^a   Rogers, Alan W ^b  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE

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DOI: 10.4324/9781849775892     Document Type: Chapter

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