Developing "community" in community gardens

Local Environment

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 555-568

  Firth, Chris ^a   Maye, Damian ^b   Pearson, David ^c  

^a Local Food Grants programme ^*  (United Kingdom)

^b Countryside and Community Research Institute ^*  (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CANBERRA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Community building; Community gardens; Nottingham; Social capital; UK

Indexed keywords

CAPACITY BUILDING; COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT; GARDEN; SOCIAL CAPITAL;

ENGLAND; NOTTINGHAM [ENGLAND]; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 79960849384     PISSN: 13549839     EISSN: 14696711     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13549839.2011.586025     Document Type: Article

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