A Systematic Review Protocol Investigating Community Gardening Impact Measures
Abstract
:1. Introduction
1.1. Defining Community Gardening
“Community gardening… now embraces a broad range of horticulture, environmental, social and political concerns… combining the “best of environmental ethics, social activism and personal expression” and involving “a faith that what they [gardeners] do not only helps the individual but strengthens the community””[50] (p. 945)
“community gardens work can be generative of progressive forms of political practices that offer us glimpses of a radical future in the urban citizenry”
“further research is needed to develop systematic approach for scaling up [community garden] intervention”
1.2. Objectives of the Review
2. Methods
2.1. Searches
- critically appraising existing measures, and
- producing a review of the strengths and limitations of existing measurement approaches.
2.2. Search Strategy and Terms
2.3. Article Screening and Study Inclusion Criteria
2.3.1. Inclusion Criteria
2.3.2. Qualitative Studies
2.3.3. Quantitative Studies
2.3.4. Exclusion Criteria
2.4. Article Evaluation Approach
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- What are the available qualitative measurements that can be used to measure community gardening experiences, outcomes and impacts?
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- What criteria do available qualitative measures incorporate?
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- Are the identified qualitative measurements used to measure community gardening experiences, outcomes and impacts methodologically sound?
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- What is the feasibility of the existing approaches to measure community gardening experiences, outcomes and impacts in diverse socio-cultural contexts?
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- What are the available quantitative measurements that can be used to measure community gardening experiences, outcomes and impacts?
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- What criteria do available quantitative measures incorporate?
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- Are the identified quantitative measurements used to measure community gardening experiences, outcomes and impacts reliable and valid?
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- What is the feasibility of the identified quantitative measurements to measure community gardening experiences, outcomes and impacts in diverse socio-cultural contexts?
2.5. Data Extraction Strategy
3. Limitations
4. Conclusions
Author Contributions
Funding
Acknowledgments
Conflicts of Interest
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Domains | Public Health | Sociology and Environmental Anthropology | Biodiversity | Environmental and Community Psychology | Earth Science |
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Environmental terms | community garden allotment garden | community garden urban agriculture urban gardening natural environment | urban food garden urban green spaces ecological benefits biodiversity conservation | community garden environmental psychology ecopsychology | community garden geological history soil ground water mineral nature sustainability environmental design |
Health terms | Health; wellbeing | Wellbeing | quality of life | ||
Social determinant terms | determinant of health social capital social cohesion education | sense of place | social inclusion social equity | Education | |
Community terms | safety | community reciprocity connection | community engagement place making cultural landscape resilience | Inclusion belonging | Connection |
Food production terms | food security | growing food | |||
Measurement terms | Measure scale outcome quantitative | ||||
Other | Governance |
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Kingsley, J.; Bailey, A.; Torabi, N.; Zardo, P.; Mavoa, S.; Gray, T.; Tracey, D.; Pettitt, P.; Zajac, N.; Foenander, E. A Systematic Review Protocol Investigating Community Gardening Impact Measures. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2019, 16, 3430. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph16183430
Kingsley J, Bailey A, Torabi N, Zardo P, Mavoa S, Gray T, Tracey D, Pettitt P, Zajac N, Foenander E. A Systematic Review Protocol Investigating Community Gardening Impact Measures. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 2019; 16(18):3430. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph16183430
Chicago/Turabian StyleKingsley, Jonathan, Aisling Bailey, Nooshin Torabi, Pauline Zardo, Suzanne Mavoa, Tonia Gray, Danielle Tracey, Philip Pettitt, Nicholas Zajac, and Emily Foenander. 2019. "A Systematic Review Protocol Investigating Community Gardening Impact Measures" International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 16, no. 18: 3430. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph16183430