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Klappentext 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. This book takes important steps in advancing understanding of what makes communities bounce back from disaster or violent conflict. The authors’ findings that creating and caring for green space contributes positively to recovery and resilience add to the toolkit of those working in disaster and conflict zones. W. C. Banks, Director, Institute for National Security and Counterterrorism, Syracuse University Greening in the Red Zone is a highly relevant book. At a time when society is more separated than ever from the natural world, it offers additional reasons why our ongoing experience of nature is essential for the human body, mind and spirit. This book is both instructive and inspiring. S. R. Kellert, Tweedy Ordway Professor Emeritus, Senior Research Scholar, YaleUniversity This is a fascinating book that greatly elevates our understanding of how the perspective of humans as an integrated part of nature may contribute to the resilience discourse. I warmly recommend this book to anyone interested in how we may prepare ourselves for an increasingly uncertain future. T. Elmqvist, Department of Systems Ecology and Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University Greening in the Red Zone is an important contribution to science and security policy and practice. This edited volume provides unique and novel approaches from a participatory, transparent, ecosystem-based perspective that puts those affected by disasters and conflict into positions of empowerment rather than weakness and dependency. This book is an interesting and timely contribution. C. Ferguson, President, Federation of American Scientists Vorwort 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 Gard...
