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Urban Green Commons as Food Sovereignty (and Vice Versa)

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Type: Conference Paper
Author: Bowness, Evan
Conference: The City as a Commons: Reconceiving Urban Space, Common Goods and City Governance, 1st Thematic IASC Conference on Urban Commons
Location: Bologna, Italy
Conf. Date: November 6-7
Date: 2015
URI: https://hdl.handle.net/10535/9965
Sector: Urban Commons
Region: North America
Subject(s): urban commons
Abstract: "Urban Green Commons are 'physical green spaces in urban settings of diverse ownership that depend on collective organization and management and to which individuals and interest groups participating in management hold a rich set of bundles of rights, including rights to craft their own institutions and to decide whom they want to include in management schemes'. While these institutional arrangements are well covered in the commons literature, they often appear as isolated examples, such as community gardens. In such discreet spaces, (local) actors arrive at shared (local) normative and governance structures in the maintenance of some (local) socio-environmental system providing a range of (local) benefits. However, situating these local arrangements within a broader context adds complexity to the question: at what ‘scales’ do urban commons emerge or get produced?"

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