By Tina Marie Waliczek, Jayne M. Zajicek

In the wake of urbanization and technological advances, public eco-friendly areas inside of towns are disappearing and folks are spending extra time with digital units than with nature. Urban Horticulture explores the significance of horticulture to the lives, well-being, and future health of city populations. It comprises contributions from specialists in study and perform from around the usa, discussing the historical past, significance, and advantages of chosen subject matters in city horticulture.

This e-book examines varieties of private and non-private groups in addition to nation and federal courses to advertise city horticulture, together with their historical past, administration and management, programming, assessment, investment, and the advantages they supply to members and groups. It additionally studies previous and present examine on university, neighborhood, public, and felony gardens. whereas now not a simple textbook, it truly is adaptable to lecture room studying, as every one bankruptcy features:

  • Objectives
  • Key terms
  • A summary
  • Review questions
  • Enrichment activities
  • Suggestions for additional reading

The publication additionally contains case stories and on-line entry to examples of PowerPoint displays that may be utilized in the study room or web-based courses.

Useful for researchers, practitioners, academics, and scholars, Urban Horticulture is a versatile source that info how passive and energetic interplay with vegetation enriches people’s lives. It offers a number of circumstances that illustrate how such interactions enhance actual and psychological healthiness, caliber of existence, social health and wellbeing, and neighborhood growth.

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They surveyed educators across the country and found that gardens were the most commonly reported feature of the schoolyard. ” Of the educators who responded, over 90% of them also felt that their school grounds learning programs supported cognitive development. The State Education and Environmental Roundtable (SEER) evaluated the impact of schoolyards and outdoor learning on education (Lieberman and Hoody 1998). They chose several schools around the United States and found that 92% of the students who had the opportunity to learn in their school surroundings and environments outperformed their peers who were taught in conventional classroom settings.

One of the things that make gardens so successful in educating children on a variety of topics is that children are doing things. They may do some planning at their desk, but they are getting up and being active. They are having fun and not realizing that they are being taught something at the same time. Children comment regularly in gardens that they never had so much fun learning. Gardens incorporate hands-on learning and active participation that make learning fun. Not only is hands-on learning fun, it maximizes what the youth learn and retain through experience.

E. C. Sullivan. 1996. Do Trees Strengthen Urban Communities, Reduce Domestic Violence? (Technology Bulletin No. 4, Forestry Report R8-FR 55). Athens, GA: USDA Forest Service Southern Region. E. C. Sullivan. 2001. Environment and crime in the inner city: Does vegetation reduce crime? Environment and Behavior, 33(3), 343–367. Marcias, T. 2008. Working toward a just, equitable, and local food system: The social impact of community based-agriculture. Social and Science Quarterly, 89(5), 1087–1101. J.

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