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Dig for vitality : UK urban allotments as a health-promoting response to COVID-19
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Niala, J. C. (2021) Dig for vitality : UK urban allotments as a health-promoting response to COVID-19. Cities & Health, 5 (Supplement 1). S227-S231. doi:10.1080/23748834.2020.1794369 ISSN 2374-8842.
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1080/23748834.2020.1794369
Abstract
Using empirical ethnographic data, and citing UK allotments as a case study, this think piece examines changes in the use of urban growing spaces as a response to a national crisis. Despite established links between urban growing spaces and improved health, competition for land globally threatens their existence. In the UK, COVID-19 has drawn attention to the importance of urban allotments as local resources and a means of increasing food security. Even so, some European local authorities quickly closed urban allotments in response to the pandemic. Allotments in their design offer a ready-made socially distanced solution to urban food, mental and physical health challenges. This think piece exposes the divergence between citizens’ actions and government responses to the pandemic.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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| Subjects: | G Geography. Anthropology. Recreation > GF Human ecology. Anthropogeography H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor H Social Sciences > HN Social history and conditions. Social problems. Social reform H Social Sciences > HT Communities. Classes. Races R Medicine > RA Public aspects of medicine R Medicine > RM Therapeutics. Pharmacology S Agriculture > SB Plant culture |
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Arts > Theatre, Performance and Cultural Policy Studies > Centre for Cultural Policy Studies Faculty of Arts > Theatre, Performance and Cultural Policy Studies |
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| SWORD Depositor: | Library Publications Router | ||||||||
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020- , COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020- -- Social aspects, Allotment gardens , Gardening -- Health aspects, Self-reliant living , Gardening -- Therapeutic use , Urban policy , Food security | ||||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Cities & Health | ||||||||
| Publisher: | Informa UK Limited | ||||||||
| ISSN: | 2374-8842 | ||||||||
| Official Date: | 2021 | ||||||||
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| Volume: | 5 | ||||||||
| Number: | Supplement 1 | ||||||||
| Page Range: | S227-S231 | ||||||||
| DOI: | 10.1080/23748834.2020.1794369 | ||||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||||
| Date of first compliant deposit: | 11 July 2022 | ||||||||
| Date of first compliant Open Access: | 11 July 2022 |
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