Growing a just garden: environmental justice and the development of a community garden policy for Hamilton, Ontario

Erika S. Jermé and Sarah Wakefield

Planning Theory & Practice, 2013, vol. 14, issue 3, 295-314

Abstract: The proliferation of community gardening, and the increasing recognition of its benefits, has led many municipalities to develop community garden policies. Using the process of drafting a community garden policy in the city of Hamilton, Canada, as a case study, this paper illustrates how an environmental justice framework could inform the creation of an effective, inclusive community gardening policy. At the same time, barriers within the policy process could mitigate against the meaningful incorporation of environmental justice concerns. The paper concludes with a discussion of how greater inter-departmental and community collaboration in policy development, as well as the more routine application of an environmental justice lens, could mitigate the ill effects of the inequitable distribution of environmental and other resources.

Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.1080/14649357.2013.812743

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