Food Provision, Social Interaction or Relaxation: Which Drivers Are Vital to Being a Member of Community Gardens in Czech Cities?
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F44555601%3A13510%2F20%3A43895655" target="_blank" >RIV/44555601:13510/20:43895655 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/12/22/9588/htm" target="_blank" >https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/12/22/9588/htm</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su12229588" target="_blank" >10.3390/su12229588</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Food Provision, Social Interaction or Relaxation: Which Drivers Are Vital to Being a Member of Community Gardens in Czech Cities?
Original language description
Urban gardening provides city dwellers with a wide range of benefits. Research dealing with the benefits of community gardens (CG) is often qualitative, focused on their founders' motivations. The objective of our contemporary quantitative study is to understand why the inhabitants of Czech cities join CGs. The paper answers the research question: "What drivers exist for members' participation in CGs?" It also deals with how the drivers of CG members differ across CGs' locations in different urban structures. The data were obtained through an online survey from 28 CGs across Czechia, in both the capital and smaller cities. The importance of the different drivers was examined using statistical analysis and logit models. The research shows that the main motivation for the members is not crop production itself but, rather, the spending of leisure time, social contact and relaxation. Other key drivers include the passing on of experience and knowledge about nature to children, which is found mostly among the members with previous cultivation experience. Based on our results, CGs may contribute to the development of public life and to the improvement of public space; hence, the greater support by local decision makers or spatial planners can be justified.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50202 - Applied Economics, Econometrics
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2020
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Sustainability
ISSN
2071-1050
e-ISSN
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Volume of the periodical
12
Issue of the periodical within the volume
22
Country of publishing house
CH - SWITZERLAND
Number of pages
17
Pages from-to
1-17
UT code for WoS article
000594553300001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85096217920