Green dreams: Promoting urban agriculture and the availability of locally produced food in the Vancouver metropolitan area

Focus on Geography

Volumn 54, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 33-41

  Broadway, Michael J ^a   Broadway, John M ^a  

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT; FOOD PRODUCTION; METROPOLITAN AREA; URBAN AGRICULTURE;

BRITISH COLUMBIA; CANADA; VANCOUVER;

EID: 79953728463     PISSN: 15494934     EISSN: 19498535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1949-8535.2010.00023.x     Document Type: Article

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