<> "The repository administrator has not yet configured an RDF license."^^ . <> . . "The Application of Sustainability Assessment: A Community Garden Assessment tool"^^ . "Community gardens provide numerous benefits, are important to sustain, and are significant to public health. They go beyond tangible benefits such as improved food security, nutrition and physical activity and can be the host of intangible benefits such as improved leadership, social networks, and quality of life. The essence of a community garden's dynamic transcends across multiple intervention levels making the community garden a flexible initiative. However, recent evidence indicates that community gardens struggle with discontinuation. The overarching goal of this paper is to examine longevity and sustainability issues as they relate to community gardens. I will apply a systematic framework of organizational structure and improvement (Sustainability Assessment Modeling (SAM)) to better understand community garden sustainability. Specifically, I propose the use of the SAM framework to develop a community garden assessment. SAM quantifies stakeholder's values, perceptions, and both economic and environmental costs. One aim of this paper is to explore the literature related to SAM and how this model can relate to public health, with a discussion of its methods, strengths, and limitations. The ultimate objective is to synthesize this information into a proposal of an effective, sustainable-focused assessment for community gardens. The participatory assessment process I propose will utilize indicators of organizational strengths, weaknesses and success of community gardens, such as longevity."^^ . "2010-06-28" . . . . . . . . "Danielle"^^ . "Nipper"^^ . "Danielle Nipper"^^ . . . . . . "The Application of Sustainability Assessment: A Community Garden Assessment tool (PDF)"^^ . . . . . . "DanielleNipperThesisFinal1.pdf"^^ . . . "The Application of Sustainability Assessment: A Community Garden Assessment tool (Indexer Terms)"^^ . . . . . . "The Application of Sustainability Assessment: A Community Garden Assessment tool (Other)"^^ . . . . . . "lightbox.jpg"^^ . . . "The Application of Sustainability Assessment: A Community Garden Assessment tool (Other)"^^ . . . . . . "preview.jpg"^^ . . . "The Application of Sustainability Assessment: A Community Garden Assessment tool (Other)"^^ . . . . . . "medium.jpg"^^ . . . "The Application of Sustainability Assessment: A Community Garden Assessment tool (Other)"^^ . . . . . . "small.jpg"^^ . . "HTML Summary of #6627 \n\nThe Application of Sustainability Assessment: A Community Garden Assessment tool\n\n" . "text/html" . .