In Pursuit of a Participatory Society: The role of the participatory agent

Authors
Publication date 2016
Journal Urban Agriculture Magazine
Pages (from-to) 41-42
Organisations
  • Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences (FMG) - Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research (AISSR)
Abstract In the last decade, Dutch cities have witnessed a rise in the number of citizen-led initiatives – initiatives which have increasingly attracted the interest of science, the public and policy makers. This article focuses on the role of the ‘‘participatory agent’’, a civil servant whose main task is to bridge citizen and local government interests in a community garden in Amsterdam East.
Document type Article
Language English
Published at http://www.ruaf.org/node/4612
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