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Espiritu, Kevin, author.
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635.091732 23
Publication Date
2019
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Nordahl, Darrin, author.
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635 NOR
Publication Date
2014
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"Public Produce captures the momentum that has been building around bringing agriculture back into our cities since the publication of the first edition in 2009. Taking readers from inspiration to implementation, this substantial revision profiles the efforts of many communities rethinking the role of public space, and explores how our urban gathering spots might nourish both body and soul."--
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Besio, Kathryn, author.
Call Number
XX(298304.1)
Publication Date
2021
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"Gardeners have tales to tell and home gardens are often at the heart of their stories. Home Gardens and Food Production explores stories which reveal the diversity of those who grow food at home and demonstrate the close relationships between home, food and identity. Kathryn Besio uses Hilo, Hawai'i as a case study to examine the meanings of household food production and home. Drawing on empirical research including participant-observation, in-depth interviews and a survey of home gardeners, she shows how Hawai'i's legacy of pre-contact and post-colonial social, ethnic, gender and class relations play a major part in narratives of homes, homeland and domesticity in one specific place over time. Readers will recognise parallels to situations in the continental United States, Western Europe, Australia and New Zealand where home gardens are being promoted as an environmentally sustainable way of enhancing household food security. As the author demonstrates, this overlooks the social, cultural and place-specific dimensions of home food production, ignoring classed, gendered, and ethnic diversity. Joining a feminist post-colonial theoretical framework with first-hand empirical research, this book makes an important contribution to a previously under-researched aspect of alternative food production and will be of interest to students and researchers in geography, anthropology, food studies, sociology, gender and post-colonial studies"--
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Rose, Nick, editor.
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338.1994 REC
Publication Date
2018
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This book is a critical reflection on the past and the present of urban food growing in Australia, as well as a map and a passionate rallying call to a better future as an urbanised species. It addresses the critical question of how to design, share, and live well in our cities and towns. It describes how to translate concepts of sustainable production into daily practices and ways of sharing spaces and working together for mutual benefit, and also reflects on how we can learn from our productive urban past. Covering Aboriginal food systems, RAW gardens, backyard gardens and rooftop beekeeping to the latest in commoning and resilient urban food systems research, Reclaiming the Urban Commons gathers together leading innovators, researchers and practitioners of urban agriculture in Australia to share stories of what they are doing, how they are doing it, and why.
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Regular print
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Rakow, Donald Andrew, 1951- author.
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635.091732 23
Publication Date
2020
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"This book asserts that challenges related to improving the livability of communities are most effectively addressed in collaboration with other organizations, and that public gardens are a critical partner for interventions using plants as the means of bringing people and communities together"--
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Menezes, Pauline.
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XX(279776.1)
Publication Date
2016
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At Home: From Pot to Pot is a fully illustrated guide on how to grow 15 different herbs and spices (the first pot in the title), and how to use these herbs and spices to prepare 30 different dishes (the second pot in the title). With planting instructions specially written for those living in small urban apartments, and the dishes being easy to prepare and utilising common ingredients, this book is suitable for beginners to both gardening and cooking, as well as gardening and food enthusiasts. Discover the joy planting your own ingredients and cooking with them!.
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Lawson, Laura J., 1966-
Call Number
635 22
Publication Date
2005
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Since the 1890s, providing places for people to garden has been an inventive strategy to improve American urban conditions. There have been vacant-lot gardens, school gardens, Depression-era relief gardens, victory gardens, and community gardens - each representing a consistent impulse to return to gardening during times of social and economic change. In this critical history of community gardening in America, the most comprehensive review of the greening of urban communities to date, Laura J. Lawson documents the evolution of urban garden programs in the United States. Her vibrant narrative f.
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Johnston, Sadhu Aufochs, author.
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307.1416097 23
Publication Date
2013
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"Superstorm Sandy sent a strong message that a new generation of urban development and infrastructure is desperately needed, and it must be designed with resilience in mind. As cities continue to face climate change impacts while growing in population, they find themselves at the center of resilience and green city solutions, yet political and budgetary obstacles threaten even the best-planned initiatives. In The Guide to Greening Cities, seasoned green city leaders Sadhu Johnston, Steven Nicholas, and Julia Parzen use success stories from across North America to show how to turn a green city agenda into reality. The Guide to Greening Cities is the first book written from the perspective of municipal leaders with successful, on-the-ground experience working to advance green city goals. Through personal reflections and interviews with leading municipal staff in cities from San Antonio to Minneapolis, the authors share lessons for cities to lead by example in their operations, create programs, implement high-priority initiatives, develop partnerships, measure progress, secure funding, and engage the community. Case studies and chapters highlight strategies for overcoming common challenges such as changes of leadership and fiscal austerity. The book is augmented by a companion website, launching with the publication of the book, which offers video interviews of municipal leaders, additional case studies, and other resources. Rich in tools, insights, and tricks of the trade, The Guide to Greening Cities helps professionals, policymakers, community leaders, and students understand which approaches have worked and why and demonstrates multidisciplinary solutions for creating healthy, just, and green communities."-- "The Guide to Greening Cities tracks the growth and structure of municipal efforts and outlines the most exciting and significant shifts underway in the greening of our cities from the perspective of insiders. Drawing from their own experience and that of other leading practitioners, the authors provide a rich portrait of the green city movement in North America - a guide, replete with case studies, insights, tips, tools, and "tricks of the trade.""--
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by
Choi, Jaz Hee-jeong.
Call Number
641.54
Publication Date
2014
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Electronic Resources
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by
Beckford, Clinton L., editor.
Call Number
338.19 23
Publication Date
2018
Summary
Agriculture, Food and Food Security: Some Global Perspectives is an edited collection of scholarly work. The book looks at agriculture and food in a framework of enhancing food security. The seven chapters that comprise the volume are written by successful international scholars with sterling academic publication records. The authors live and work in countries across the world including Jamaica, Germany, Canada, and the United States. Together, they have conducted numerous research projects and published a high volume of scholarly articles on issues related to the central themes of this book: agriculture, food and food security. The chapters in the book provide insights into several key themes centered on food, agriculture, and food and nutrition security. The volume explores some pressing issues including food desserts, micro-nutrient deficiencies, increasing food production by tapping into the potential of already known species, localizing food production, maximizing the food and nutrition potential of tropical fruits, and agricultural vulnerability in the context of the most pressing global threats: climate change and variability.
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Electronic Resources
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Heath, Jennifer, editor.
Call Number
577 23
Publication Date
2019
Summary
This book considers how organizations of the same species interact with each other, how organisms of different species in the same space interact, and how multiple communities interact to make up an ecosystem, information crucial in understanding how biodiversity affects ecological function.
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Choi, Jaz Hee-jeong, 1980- editor.
Call Number
641.54 23
Publication Date
2014
Summary
"Our contemporary concerns about food range from food security to agricultural sustainability to getting dinner on the table for family and friends. This book investigates food issues as they intersect with participatory Internet culture--blogs, wikis, online photo- and video-sharing platforms, and social networks--in efforts to bring about a healthy, socially inclusive, and sustainable food future. Focusing on our urban environments provisioned with digital and network capacities, and drawing on such "bottom-up" sociotechnical trends as DIY and open source, the chapters describe engagements with food and technology that engender (re- )creative interactions."--
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