Greening in the Red Zone - Disaster, Resilience and Community Greening

Creation and access to green spaces promotes individual human health, especially in therapeutic contexts among those suffering traumatic events. But what of the role of access to green space and the act of creating and caring for such places in promoting social health and well-being? Greening in the Red Zone asserts that creation and access to green spaces confers resilience and recovery in systems disrupted by violent conflict or disaster. This edited volume provides evidence for this assertion through cases and examples. The contributors to this volume use a variety of research and policy frameworks to explore how creation and access to green spaces in extreme situations might contribute to resistance, recovery, and resilience of social-ecological systems.

List of contents

Foreword.- Preface.- PART I: Foundations.- Introduction: Greening in the Red Zone.- Resilience and Transformation in the Red Zone.- GRZ Vignette 1 - An Urban Park in Earthquake Stricken Port-au-Prince, Haiti.- PART II: Motives and Explanation.- Urgent Biophilia.- Sowing Seeds of Resilience: Community Gardening in a Post-Disaster Context.- GRZ Vignette 2 - Transforming Degraded Space into a Community Asset - The Soweto Mountain of Hope.- The Role of Nature in Children's Resilience: Cognitive and Social Processes.- Children's Engagement with the Natural World as a Ground for Healing.- GRZ Vignette 3 - 8,000 Trees - A Refuge From Ruins in Afghanistan.- Topophilia, Biophilia and Greening in the Red Zone.- Urban Gardens: Pockets of Social-Ecological Memory.- GRZ Vignette 4 - Reconstructing Village Groves After a Typhoon in Korea.- Nature Engagement to Foster Resilience in Military Communities.- Garden for Victory! The American Victory Garden Campaign of World War II.- GRZ Vignette 5 - The Korean DMZ: From Red Zone to Green Zone.- Green Zones from Above and Below: A Retrospective and Cautionary Tale.- Reflections on Defiant Gardens: Making Gardens in Wartime.- PART III: Cases & Practices.- Restoration of the Urban Forests of Tokyo and Hiroshima Following World War II.- Valuing Urban Forest: Lessons to Learn from Hurricanes.- Trees, Rebirth and Resilience: Symbol, Ritual and Resilience in Post-Katrina New Orleans.- GRZ Vignette 6 - The Risks of Greening in the Red Zone: Creating Afghanistan's First National Park in the Midst of Conflict.- Destruction and Replanting of the Urban Forest of Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina.- The Re-greening of the Grey: Some Practical Considerations for the Urban Forest.- GRZ Vignette 7 - Trees and Tree Planting in Southern Madagascar: Sacredness and Remembrance.- Community-Based Memorials to September 11, 2001: Environmental Stewardship as Memory Work.- GRZ Vignette 8 - Six Ares of Land for the Resilience of UrbanFamilies in Post-Soviet Russia.- Beyond the Bars: Landscapes for Health and Healing in Corrections.- GRZ Vignette 9 - Wildlife: The Catalyst for Peace in Northern Kenya.- Sustainability-Oriented Social Learning in Multi-Cultural Urban Areas: The Case of the Rotterdam Environmental Centre.- Developing a Safe, Nurturing and Therapeutic Environment for the Families of the Garbage Pickers in Guatemala and for Disabled Children in Bosnia and Herzegovina.- GRZ Vignette 10 - Reforestation Activities at a Chadian Refugee Camp in Northern Cameroon.- Growing Hope: How Urban Gardens are Empowering War-Affected Liberians and Harvesting a New Generation of City Farmers.- Cyprus - Greening the Dead Zone.- GRZ Vignette 11 - The Berlin Wall Trail - A Cycling and Hiking Route on the Traces of Berlin's Cold War Divide.- Synthesis and Conclusions: Applying Greening in Red Zones.- Name and Subject Index.

Summary

Creation and access to green spaces promotes individual human health, especially in therapeutic contexts among those suffering traumatic events. But what of the role of access to green space and the act of creating and caring for such places in promoting social health and well-being? Greening in the Red Zone asserts that creation and access to green spaces confers resilience and recovery in systems disrupted by violent conflict or disaster. This edited volume provides evidence for this assertion through cases and examples. The contributors to this volume use a variety of research and policy frameworks to explore how creation and access to green spaces in extreme situations might contribute to resistance, recovery, and resilience of social-ecological systems.

Foreword

List of Contributors
Foreword- Lance Gunderson
Preface and Acknowledgments
Section 1- Foundations
1.      Introduction: Greening in the Red Zone
2.      Resilient Green: the role of greening in social-ecological system resilience in red zones  
3.      GRZ Vignette* One- An urban park in earthquake stricken Port au Prince
Section 2- Motives and Explanation
4.      Urgent Biophilia
5.      Sowing Seeds of Resilience: Community Gardening in a Post-Disaster Context
6.      GRZ Vignette Two- Transforming Degraded Space into a Community Asset – The Soweto Mountain of Hope
7.      The Role of Nature in Children's Resilience: Cognitive and Social Processes
8.      Children’s Engagement with the Natural World as a Ground for Healing
9.      GRZ Vignette Three- 8,000 Trees- A Refuge From Ruins in Afghanistan
10.  Topophilia, Biophilia and Greening in the Red Zone
11.  Urban Gardens: Pockets of Social-Ecological Memory
Stephan Barthel, John Parker, Carl Folke, and Johan Colding
12.  GRZ Vignette Four- Reconstructing village groves after a typhoon in Korea
13.  Nature Engagement to Foster Resilience in Military Communities
14.  Garden for Victory! The American Victory Garden Campaign of World War II
 
15.  GRZ Vignette Five- The Korean DMZ: from Red Zone to Green Zone
16.  Green Zones from Above and Below: A Retrospective and Cautionary Tale
17.  Reflections on Defiant Gardens: Making Gardens in Wartime
Section 3- Cases & Practices
18.  Restoration of the urban forests of Tokyo and Hiroshima following World
War II
19.  Valuing Urban Forest: Lessons to Learn from Hurricanes
20.  Trees, Rebirth and Resilience: Community-led Reforestation and Recovery in Post-Katrina New Orleans
21.  GRZ Vignette Six- Conservation in the Red Zone:  Creating Afghanistan's First National Park in the Midst of Conflict
22.  Destruction and Replanting of the urban forest of Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
23.  The Re-greening of the Grey: Some Practical Considerations for the Urban Forest
24.  GRZ Vignette Seven- Trees and Tree Planting in Southern Madagascar:  Sacredness and Remembrance
25.  Community-based memorials to September 11, 2001: Environmental stewardship as memory work
26.  GRZ Vignette Eight- Six Ares of Land for the Resilience of Urban Families in Post-Soviet Russia
27.  Beyond the Bars: Landscapes for Health and Healing in Corrections
28.  GRZ Vignette Nine- Wildlife: The Catalyst for Peace in Northern Kenya
29.  Sustainability-oriented social learning in multi-cultural urban areas: The case of the Rotterdam Environmental Centre
30.  Developing a Safe, Nurturing and Therapeutic Environment for the Families of the Garbage Pickers in Guatemala and for Disabled Children in Bosnia and Herzegovina
31.  GRZ Vignette Ten- Reforestation Activities at a Chadian Refugee Camp in Northern Cameroon
32.  Growing Hope: How Urban Gardens are Empowering War-Affected Liberians and Harvesting a New Generation of City Farmers
33.  Cyprus. Greening the Dead Zone.
34.  GRZ Vignette Eleven- The Berlin Wall Trail - a cycling and hiking route on the traces of Berlin's Cold War Divide
35.  Synthesis and Conclusions: Applying Greening in Red Zones
Afterword
Index

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• Assisted by: E Krasny (Editor), E Krasny (Editor), Keit G Tidball (Editor), Keith G Tidball (Editor), Marianne E Krasny (Editor), Marianne E. Krasny (Editor), Keith G. Tidball (Editor)
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