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Allotment Gardens Contribute to Urban Ecosystem Service: Case Study Salzburg, Austria
AllotmentGarden gardensAllotment garden are a vital feature in the urban landscapeLandscape. They provide a range of ecosystem servicesEcosystem...
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Brøndby Allotment Gardens: Building Social Cohesion in Danish Peri-Urban Spaces
Allotment gardens in Denmark are cluster garden developments where year-round residency is prohibited. Similar gardens exist in numerous countries...
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Home and community composts in Nantes city (France): quality and safety regarding trace metals and metalloids
Home and community composting are key strategies for local organic waste management. The quality and safety of industrial composts are controlled,...
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The Role of Allotment Gardens for Connecting Nature and People
Allotment gardens (AG) are valuable elements of communities that provide substantial ecosystem services. An AG as a type of community garden is a...
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Association Members with a Migration Background as “Unexpected” Heirs of Cultural Heritage in Allotment Garden Associations
This article offers an attempt to employ the praxeological framework developed by Pierre Bourdieu to examine the role of social actors and the...
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Structure and Processes of Home Gardens in Urban Landscape: The Case of Galle, Kandy, and Jaffna Cities in Sri Lanka
HomeHome garden gardensGarden are a central part of the domestic dwelling. Urban homeHome garden gardensGarden can play a significant role in...
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Quantifying the relationship between gardening and health and well-being in the UK: a survey during the covid-19 pandemic
BackgroundRates of non-communicable diseases, including cardiovascular disease and type 2 diabetes, and mental health problems, such as anxiety and...
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Low presence of potentially toxic elements in Singapore urban garden soils
BackgroundUrban agriculture is potentially an important piece of the food security puzzle for a rapidly growing urban world population. Community...
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Urban Gardening and Environmental Behavior of Urban Gardeners in Different Garden Forms in Barcelona, Spain
ThisEnvironmental behavior investigation analyzes the current situation of urban communityCommunity gardeningCommunity gardening in the Catalan...
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Longitudinal analysis of home food production and food sharing behavior in Japan: multiple benefits of local food systems and the recent impact of the COVID-19 pandemic
Home food production and sharing (home consumption) make up a local community-based food system that has become a custom closely tied to people’s...
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Uprooting and Grounding: Migrant Gardeners, Urban Food Cultivation, and Cultural Wellbeing
There has been a proliferating interest in the restorative effects of outdoor environments, such as gardens and plots, on people’s wellbeing. As well...
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Étienne de Groër: Planning the Lisbon Garden City Region
This chapter examines the contribution of Étienne de Groër in the planning of a garden city region for Lisbon. It reveals an outstanding example of...
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Urban agriculture in walkable neighborhoods bore fruit for health and food system resilience during the COVID-19 pandemic
Urban agriculture is the key to creating healthy cities and developing resilient urban food systems in uncertain times. However, relevant empirical...
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A process evaluation of a randomized-controlled trial of community gardening to improve health behaviors and reduce stress and anxiety
As part of the Community Activation for Prevention (CAPS) randomized controlled trial (RCT) of community gardening, we conducted a process evaluation...
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Human health and environmental risk assessment of metals in community gardens of Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Fresh produce is an important component of maintaining cognitive and physical health, particularly for children. A mechanism to increase access to...
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Health risk associated with soil and plant contamination in industrial areas
AimsThe aim of the study was to assess human health risk stemming from i) contact with contaminated soil and ii) consumption of plants growing in...
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Learning to Find the “food beneath your feet”: Urban Foraging, Social-Meet-ups, and Mobile Social-Ecological Memory in Philadelphia, USA
Urban greenspaces contribute to the maintenance of social-ecological memory (SEM), or the knowledge, experiences, and practices a community develops...
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From a long-distance threat to the invasion front: a review of the invasive Aedes mosquito species in Belgium between 2007 and 2020
Invasive mosquito species (IMS) and their associated mosquito-borne diseases are emerging in Europe. In Belgium, the first detection of Aedes...
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Exploring educational traditions and experiences of block residents engaging in urban food self-production: a case study of Urban Living Lab
Food self-production offers a promising solution to many urbanization problems in cities. However, despite the advanced technology, the acceptance...
