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THESISES & STUDIES

Overseas developments in urban agriculture and food security
Peta Christensen's study of overseas developments in urban agriculture and food security focussing on community garden projects and community markets in low income communities. 

Peta is Community Gardens Support Worker for Cultivating Community, Melbourne.

(item coming soon).

Sustainability as Seen from a Vegetable Garden
Louise A. Crabtree; 1999; Macquarie University, New South Wales.
http://www.thirdangel.com/sustainability/

Louise's thesis looked at how community gardens/gardeners interact with each other and other supporting or affiliated bodies (like the Australian Community Gardens Network, Rhonda Hunt 's (South Sydney City Council) position and the groups involved in Street Jungle), what these relationships mean for sustainability and how we can go about growing these spaces.

Ms Louise Crabtree B. Sc. (Hons), Department of Human Geography
Macquarie University, NSW 2109 Australia

Gardening In The Street: Sociality, Production And Consumption In
Northey Street City Farm
Emanuele John Gelsi; 1999; University of Queensland; www.cityfarmer.org/brisbane.html

Thesies & studies in print

Smelling the Earth - towards a model of contemporary social change
Wright S, 1992: University of Sydney.

Cook Community Garden - just fresh vegies?
Worner D, 1999; University of New South Wales.


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