Community gardening and social cohesion: different designs, different motivations

Local Environment

Volumn 21, Issue 10, 2016, Pages 1271-1287

  Veen, E J ^a   Bock, B B ^a   Van den Berg, W ^a   Visser, A J ^a   Wiskerke, J S C ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Community gardening; interest based; motivations; place based; social cohesion

Indexed keywords

DESIGN; GARDEN; LOCAL PARTICIPATION; VEGETABLE;

EID: 84945339723     PISSN: 13549839     EISSN: 14696711     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13549839.2015.1101433     Document Type: Article

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