All Outputs (68)

Tools – applications, benefits and linkages for ecosystem science (TABLES) (2014)
Book Chapter

Over an 18 month period, the Tools: Applications, Benefits and Linkages for Ecosystems (TABLES) project has worked at the interface of research, policy and practice, crossing different disciplines, sectors and professions, to embed the value of natur... Read More about Tools – applications, benefits and linkages for ecosystem science (TABLES).

Informal urban agriculture : the secret lives of guerrilla gardeners (2014)
Book
Hardman, M., & Larkham, P. (2014). Informal urban agriculture : the secret lives of guerrilla gardeners. Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-09534-9

The book explores how unused and under-used urban spaces – from grass verges, roundabouts, green spaces – have been made more visually interesting, and more productive, by informal (and usually illegal) groups known as “guerrilla gardeners”. The boo... Read More about Informal urban agriculture : the secret lives of guerrilla gardeners.

Guerrilla warfare in the planning system: revolutionary progress towards sustainability? (2013)
Journal Article
Adams, D., Scott, A., & Hardman, M. (2013). Guerrilla warfare in the planning system: revolutionary progress towards sustainability?. Geografiska Annaler: Series B, Human Geography, 95(4), 375-387. https://doi.org/10.1111/geob.12031

This article extends Qviström’s (2007; Geografiska Annaler: Series B, Human Geography 89 (3): 269–282) ideas concerning “landscapes out of order” within a re-discovering and re-imagining of spatial planning theory and practice. Taking
the viewpoint... Read More about Guerrilla warfare in the planning system: revolutionary progress towards sustainability?.

Observing guerrillas in the wild : reinterpreting practices of urban guerrilla gardening (2013)
Journal Article
Adams, D., & Hardman, M. (2014). Observing guerrillas in the wild : reinterpreting practices of urban guerrilla gardening. Urban Studies, 51(6), 1103-1119. https://doi.org/10.1177/0042098013497410

Despite an emerging literature on guerrilla gardening as a political practice in public spaces, with few exceptions, these accounts theorise it as working against many corporate
and bureaucratic forms of power. Using the example of ‘F Troop’—a group... Read More about Observing guerrillas in the wild : reinterpreting practices of urban guerrilla gardening.

Disintegrated development at the rural–urban fringe: Re-connecting spatial planning theory and practice (2013)
Journal Article

The spaces where countryside meets town are often amongst society's most valued and pressured places which together form the rural–urban fringe (RUF). A ‘messy’ yet opportunistic space in policy and decision making processes, the RUF remains confused... Read More about Disintegrated development at the rural–urban fringe: Re-connecting spatial planning theory and practice.

Artificial grass and schools: a synthetic novelty? (2012)
Journal Article

This paper focuses on the larger transformation of green space, in particular the use of artificial grass in Birmingham’s inner-city primary schools. The paper uses a combination of observation and informal interviews to explore the artificial grasse... Read More about Artificial grass and schools: a synthetic novelty?.

Sustainable food planning: Thematic group meeting (2012)
Journal Article
Hardman, M. (2012). Sustainable food planning: Thematic group meeting. Town Planning Review, 83(4), https://doi.org/10.3828/tpr.2012.28

Eating waste : a critical evaluation of surplus food redistribution as solution to food waste and food insecurity
Thesis
Spring, C. (in press). Eating waste : a critical evaluation of surplus food redistribution as solution to food waste and food insecurity. (Thesis). University of Salford

This thesis critically explores relationships between food insecurity and food waste in the UK through the lens of surplus food redistribution (SFR). Ethnographic research compared two UK redistribution organisations’ models, framings, practices and... Read More about Eating waste : a critical evaluation of surplus food redistribution as solution to food waste and food insecurity.