I have been following the posts about sources for documentation of benefits of GC's with interest...so nice to find out about more of these resources!
List members may not be aware of community greening research here at Cornell happening within our Civic Ecology Initiative (Department of Natural Resources). The following items may be of interest: 1. "From Risk to Resilience: What Role for Community Greening and Civic Ecology in Cities?" appears as chapter 7 in Wals, Arjen (editor) (2007), Social Learning Towards a more Sustainable World, Wageningen Academic Publishers, Wageningen, The Netherlands. In this chapter we argue that urban community greening and other "civic ecology" approaches that integrate natural, human, social, financial, and physical capital in cities, and that encompass diversity, self-organization, and adaptive learning and management leading to positive feedback loops, have the potential to reduce risk from disaster in cities through helping communities to develop resilience before a disaster, and to demonstrate resilience after disaster strikes. You can read a version of this chapter here: http://www.dnr.cornell.edu/mek2/file/Tidball_Krasny_Urban_Resilience.pdf 2. "Civic Ecology Education: A Systems Approach to Resilience and Learning in Cities" is an article currently in review at the Journal of Environmental Education Research. In this article we argue that urban community greening embodies resilience attributes through incorporating diversity, self-organization, and adaptive learning. Furthermore, we posit that urban community gardens provide a unique context for environmental education because they integrate western science and indigenous knowledge (or diverse forms of knowledge), and community action (or self-organization). This article, as yet unpublished, can be viewed at: http://www.dnr.cornell.edu/mek2/file/Krasny_Tidball_Civic_Ecology_Education. pdf 3. For an overview of the Civic Ecology Initiative, see: http://www.dnr.cornell.edu/mek2/page/research-ce.php I hope these items may be of use to some of you. Onward! Best, KGT Keith G. Tidball Extension Associate Associate Director, Initiative for Civic Ecology Dept. of Natural Resources Cornell University 101A Rice Hall Cornell University Ithaca, NY 14853 Campus phone 607-254-5479 Home Office phone 315-568-9710 Mobile phone 202-288-0299 http://www.dnr.cornell.edu/people/ra/profiles/tidball.htm http://www.civicecology.org http://www.gardenmosaics.cornell.edu/ "Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats." -- Howard Hathaway Aiken, physicist and computer pioneer -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://list.communitygarden.org/pipermail/community_garden_list.communitygarden.org/attachments/20070302/e8ddfa3f/attachment.html
