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Guerrilla Gardeners, Urban Agriculture, Food and the Future

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Informal Urban Agriculture

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In this summary chapter, we revisit the key messages and tease out some themes for further research. Whilst the book covers a variety of themes, we highlight those we see as most important: ranging from why groups may pursue guerrilla gardening to the darker side of the activity. In doing so, we emphasise where we feel the core outputs of this book sit and how it could add value to debates around guerrilla gardening activity. This summary chapter first reviews the case studies, before using them as a springboard for wider debates around guerrilla urban agriculture. The chapter also includes a reflection on our methodological approach, which we argue that it can be replicated to gather more data around guerrilla gardening practices, enabling researchers to be integrated with the activity, yet provide an objective view of the action and its impact. Finally, we reflect on the wider relevance of this text in the context of urban agriculture and call for more research on this topic.

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  1. School of Environment and Life Sciences, University of Salford, Salford, UK

    Michael Hardman

  2. Birmingham School of the Built Environment, Birmingham City University, Birmingham, UK

    Peter J. Larkham

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Hardman, M., Larkham, P.J. (2014). Guerrilla Gardeners, Urban Agriculture, Food and the Future. In: Informal Urban Agriculture. Urban Agriculture. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-09534-9_8

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