Urban Agriculture: Using Community Systems of Agriculture as a Solution to Homelessness and Unhealthy Food Sources

Simple item page
dc.contributor.advisorDetray, Stephenen_US
dc.contributor.authorMearns, Ian Michaelen_US
dc.date.accessioned2012-09-13T17:39:12Z
dc.date.available2012-09-13T17:39:12Z
dc.date.issued2012-09-13
dc.date.submitted2012en_US
dc.descriptionThesis (Master's)--University of Washington, 2012en_US
dc.description.abstractFor those persons living on the edge of the socioeconomic periphery lack of employment, nutritional food sources and housing resources has led to an increase of homelessness over the past decade. This paper focuses on these resources can be accessed through through the use of urban agriculture as a community system, similar to systems of community supported agriculture (CSA's), that will provide homeless citizens with access to food, housing, vocational opportunities and social resources.en_US
dc.embargo.termsNo embargoen_US
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen_US
dc.identifier.otherMearns_washington_0250O_10415.pdfen_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1773/20879
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.rightsCopyright is held by the individual authors.en_US
dc.subject.otherUrban planningen_US
dc.subject.otherSustainabilityen_US
dc.subject.otherInterdisciplinary arts and sciences - Tacomaen_US
dc.titleUrban Agriculture: Using Community Systems of Agriculture as a Solution to Homelessness and Unhealthy Food Sourcesen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

Files

Original bundle

Now showing 1 - 1 of 1
Thumbnail Image
Name:
Mearns_washington_0250O_10415.pdf
Size:
395.75 KB
Format:
Adobe Portable Document Format
Download

Collections

Interdisciplinary arts and sciences - Tacoma
MAIS Theses