Greening in the Red Zone

Disaster, Resilience and Community Greening

4/2012
Ed. by Tidball, Keith G.; Krasny, Marianne E.
2012. V, 300 p. w. 10 b&w and 20 col. figs. 235 mm


EUR 106,95 

Access to green space and the act of creating green spaces is well understood to promote human health, especially in therapeutic contexts among individuals suffering traumatic events. Less well understood, though currently being studied, is the role of access to green space and the act of creating and caring for it in promoting neighbourhood health and well being as related to social-ecological system resilience.
An important implication of Greening in the Red Zone lies in specific instances of greening and the presence of greened spaces in promoting and enhancing recovery, and perhaps resilience, in social-ecological systems disrupted or perturbed by violent conflict or other catastrophic disaster.
This edited volume provides illustration and interpretation of these phenomena through a series of cases or examples of Greening in the Red Zone, which will explore how access to green space and the act of creating green spaces in extreme situations might contribute to resistance, recovery, and resilience of social-ecological systems.

From the contents:
List of Contributors
Foreword by Lance Gunderson
Preface and Acknowledgments
Section 1- Foundations
Section 2- Motives and Explanation
Section 3- Cases & Practices
Combined Index.

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