Institutions for Collective Gardening: A Comparative Analysis of 51 Urban Community Gardens in Anglophone and German-Speaking Countries

Göttl, Ida; Penker, Marianne

doi:10.5334/ijc.961

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“…Community garden is a term with a rich connotation, and there is no single blueprint for the organization of CGs [75]. Škamlová et al [76] argue that there is a strict distinction between CGs and allotment gardens in previous literature.…”

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A Bibliometric Analysis of Current Knowledge Structure and Research Progress Related to Urban Community Garden Systems

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Guo

Wang

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Community gardens offer broad research opportunities and analytical resources encompassing urban planning to environmental sustainability, food systems, and social capital. However, little is known about the knowledge structure and research development related to community gardens. This study presents an in-depth bibliometric performance analysis and visual scientific mapping analysis of the literature on community gardens by examining 487 published papers selected from the Web of Science database. The results indicated a considerable rise in research papers in this subject area from 2012 onwards, with most contributions from the United States. Studies from high-income countries accounted for 93.22%, and 38 countries have cooperated 167 times in this field. “Health” is the most frequent keyword, and the terms “ecosystem services” has been gaining popularity over the last five years. A combination of co-citation clustering and keyword co-occurrence clustering analysis identified three major research themes in the field of community gardens: “ecosystem services and disservices”, “multidimensional association”, and “sustainable garden systems”. The development of ecosystem value assessment frameworks, the establishment of region-wide soil monitoring databases, accounting for the cost-effectiveness of nature-based solutions, the integration of garden systems into smart cities, and the integration of water management into regulation will be important future research directions regarding community gardens. Overall, this study provides scholars with a systematic and quantitative understanding of community gardens.

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Section: The Types Of Gardens Included In Our Search Strategymentioning

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A Bibliometric Analysis of Current Knowledge Structure and Research Progress Related to Urban Community Garden Systems

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“…Accordingly, the traditional grasp of organizational hierarchies and power relations might be dissolved completely (Aptekar, 2015). In this context, Göttl & Penker (2020) conducted a comparative analysis of 51 urban community gardens in Anglo-Saxon and German-speaking countries. The authors acknowledge that not a single blueprint exists for organizing CG.…”

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Prosuming Alone or Together: A Bisectoral Approach to Conceptualizing the Commons Prosumer

Ritzel

Mann

Zyl-Bulitta

2022

International Journal of the Commons

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The aim of this study was to combine the concept of prosumerism with the theory of the commons to develop the concept of commons prosumer (co-prosumer) in distinction to private prosumer (p-prosumer). While the p-prosumer prosumes for himself, the coprosumer creates a social environment for social capital. We use energy and agriculture as two cases in point to illustrate that the concept of the prosumer's role appears in different contexts with varying attributes such as self-efficacy, sufficiency, or autarchy. However, independence and socially fragmented structures might lead to less resilience, whereas dependence structures could confer collective benefits. We propose a building block to fill the gap in the prosumer setting and balance individual and collective interests. By positioning the p-prosumer on a commons-based foundation, we make more explicit the dependence structures that build communities or networks to showcase possibilities that pave the way for shared and socially innovative structures of self-empowerment for infrastructure decision-making at different levels.

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“…Fox-Kämper et al (2018) reviewed CGs in several countries and found that CG governance structures could be classified into three major approaches: top-down, bottom-up, and mixed; however, this classification is a continuum, as there are cases of top-down approaches using community help and bottom-up approaches with political (or administrative), professional, or informal supports. These governance structures also change over time as the garden progresses through the planning, design, implementation, and management phases; furthermore, this process is affected by the place-specific context of each CG (Drake & Lawson, 2015;Fox-Kämper et al, 2018;Göttl & Penker, 2020;Johnson et al, 2019;Škamlová et al, 2020). Thus, it is important to examine each case in order to determine 'who' from 'where' became involved in a given CG project, how this actor's involvement came about, and what is being done by this actor.…”

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The governance of a community garden with a food cycle in suburban Tokyo

Shimpo

2021

Urban Agric & Regnl Food Sys

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Urbanites can learn more about food cycles by growing vegetables and fruits and composting food residues within a community garden (CG). Case studies are necessary for developing theories about the sustainable governance of CGs containing food cycles. In particular, Asian cities have high potential to establish food cycles because of their mixture of urban and rural land use. This paper discusses the governance of a suburban-Tokyo CG, where neighborhood kitchen wastes were collected and used as direct fertilizer for the soil. The quantitative and qualitative data obtained through interviews and internal material of the garden was analyzed to grasp the garden's history, stakeholders' involvement, and the relationships between gardeners and kitchen waste providers. The results showed that the founder started the garden in a bottomup way and overcame challenges by maintaining a strong motivation and a flexible attitude. The gardeners provided work opportunities to people with disabilities and education materials to children. These collaborations may have corroborated the necessity of the garden existence. Most of the gardeners and all the waste providers live within 2 km of the garden and the close communication between them was possible, which may have maintained the kitchen waste quality. This study demonstrates advantages and challenges in the governance of Japanese CGs; however, further case studies are necessary for improving the generalizability of this study's findings. INTRODUCTIONAgricultural technology and globalization have increased the efficiency of food production; however, consequently, urban populations now have fewer opportunities to observe the food production process. Plant factories, which use water and artificial light, could save nutrient inputs, energy, and water and yield more vegetables than conventional agriculture, which is affected by weather, soil, and other conditions (Kikuchi et al.,Abbreviations: CG, community garden; NPO, nonprofit organization.This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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Institutions for Collective Gardening: A Comparative Analysis of 51 Urban Community Gardens in Anglophone and German-Speaking Countries

Cited by 15 publications

References 43 publications

A Bibliometric Analysis of Current Knowledge Structure and Research Progress Related to Urban Community Garden Systems

A Bibliometric Analysis of Current Knowledge Structure and Research Progress Related to Urban Community Garden Systems

Prosuming Alone or Together: A Bisectoral Approach to Conceptualizing the Commons Prosumer

The governance of a community garden with a food cycle in suburban Tokyo

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