Civic greening and environmental learning in public-access community gardens in Berlin

Landscape and Urban Planning

Volumn 109, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 18-30

  Bendt, Pim ^a   Barthel, Stephan ^b   Colding, Johan ^a,b  

^a ROYAL SWEDISH ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^b STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Civic engagement; Communities of practice; Environmental learning; Extinction of experience; Place making; Public access community gardens

Indexed keywords

ECOLOGY;

CIVIC ENGAGEMENT; COMMUNITIES OF PRACTICE; ENVIRONMENTAL LEARNING; PLACE-MAKING; PUBLIC ACCESS;

SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

COMMUNITY CARE; ECONOMIC ANALYSIS; GARDEN; GREENSPACE; NEIGHBORHOOD; PARTICIPATORY APPROACH; PUBLIC ACCESS; SUSTAINABILITY; URBAN POLITICS;

BERLIN; GERMANY;

EID: 84870377392     PISSN: 01692046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.landurbplan.2012.10.003     Document Type: Article

References (75)

1. Andersson E., Barthel S., Ahrne K. Measuring social-ecological dynamics behind the generation of ecosystem services. Ecological Applications 2007, 17(5):1267-1278.
2. Barthel, S. (2008). Recalling urban nature-linking city people to ecosystem services. PhD Dissertation. Stockholm University. ISBN 978-91-7155-741-4. http://www.stockholmresilience.org/research/researchnews/acoevolutionarypeoplenatureprocess.5.87749a811cbd4c4fb4800012940.html.
3. Barthel S., Folke C., Colding J. Social-ecological memory in urban gardens-Retaining the capacity for management of ecosystem services. Global Environmental Change 2010, 20(2):255-265.
4. Barthel S., Sörlin S., Ljungqvist J. Innovative memory and resilient cities: Echoes from ancient Constantinople. The urban mind 2010, 391-405. Uppsala University Press, Uppsala. P. Sinclair, F. Herschend, C. Isendahl, G. Nordquist (Eds.).
5. Been V., Voicu I., Estate F.C.f.R., Policy U. The effect of community gardens on neighboring property values 2006, Furman Center for Real Estate & Urban Policy, New York University School of Law, Wagner School of Public Service.
6. Beilin R. Photo-elicitation and the agricultural landscape: 'Seeing' and 'telling' about farming, community and place. Visual Studies 2005, 20(1):56-68.
7. Beilin R., Hunter A. Co-constructing the sustainable city: How indicators help us " grow" more than just food in community gardens. Local Environment 2011, 16(6):523-538.
8. Blackler F. Knowledge, knowledge work and organizations: An overview and interpretation. Organization Studies 1995, 16(6):1021.
9. Boyer L., Roth W. Learning and teaching as emergent features of informal settings: An ethnographic study in an environmental action group. Science Education 2006, 90(6):1028-1049.
10. Colding J. Ecological land-use complementation for building resilience in urban ecosystems. Landscape and Urban Planning 2007, 81(1-2):46-55.
11. Colding J. Creating incentives for increased public engagement in ecosystem management through urban commons. Adapting institutions: Governance, complexity and social-ecological resilience 2011, 101-124. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. E. Boyd, C. Folke (Eds.).
12. Colding J., Lundberg J., Folke C. Incorporating green-area user groups in urban ecosystem management. AMBIO: A Journal of the Human Environment 2006, 35(5):237-244.
13. Connerton P. How societies remember 1989, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
14. Crang M. Analysing qualitative materials. Methods in human geography: A guide for students doing research projects 2005, Pearson Education Limited, Harlow. R. Flowerdew, D. Martin (Eds.).
15. Crumley L.C. From the garden to the globe: Linking time and space to meaning and memory. The way the wind blows: Climate, history and human action 2000, Columbia University Press, New York. R.J. McIntosh, J.A. Tainter, S.K. McIntosh (Eds.).
16. Davies Z., Fuller R., Loram A., Irvine K., Sims V., Gaston K. A national scale inventory of resource provision for biodiversity within domestic gardens. Biological Conservation 2009, 142(4):761-771.
17. Ernstson H., Barthel S., Andersson E., Borgström S.T. Scale-crossing brokers and network governance of urban ecosystem services: The case of Stockholm. Ecology and Society 2010, 15(4):28.
18. Evely A.C., Pinard M., Reed M.S., Fazey I. High levels of participation in conservation projects enhance learning. Conservation Letters 2010, 1-11.
19. Folke C., Jansson A., Larsson J., Costanza R. Ecosystem appropriation by cities. AMBIO: A Journal of the Human Environment 1997, 26:167-172.
20. Folke H., Schellnhuber A safe operating space for humanity. Nature 2009, 461(7263):472-475.
21. Gehl J. Cities for people 2010, Island Press, Washington, DC.
22. Glover T., Shinew K., Parry D. Association, sociability, and civic culture: The democratic effect of community gardening. Leisure Sciences 2005, 27(1):75-92.
23. Goddard M., Dougill A., Benton T. Scaling up from gardens: Biodiversity conservation in urban environments. Trends in Ecology & Evolution 2010, 25(2):90-98.
24. Grimm N.B., Faeth S.H., Golubiewski N.E., Redman C.L., Wu J., Bai X., et al. Global change and the ecology of cities. Science 2008, 319:756-760.
25. Harvey D. Justice, nature and the geography of difference 1996, Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford.
26. Healey P. Urban complexity and spatial strategies: Towards a relational planning for our times 2007, Routledge, London.
27. Holland L. Diversity and connections in community gardens: A contribution to local sustainability. Local Environment 2004, 9(3):285-305.
28. Illeris K. How we learn: Learning and non-learning in school and beyond 2007, Routledge, New York.
29. Jacobs J. The death and life of Great American Cities (1961) 1961, Random House, New York.
30. Kahn P. Childrenís affiliations with nature: Structure, development, and the problem of environmental generational amnesia. Children and nature: Psychological, socio-cultural and evolutionary investigations 2002, 93-116. MIT Press, USA. P.H. Kahn, S.R. Kellert (Eds.).
31. Kahn P., Friedman B. Environmental views and values of children in an inner city black community. Child Development 1995, 66(5):1403-1417.
32. Krasny M., Tidball K. Applying a resilience systems framework to urban environmental education. Environmental Education Research 2009, 15(4):465-482.
33. Krasny M., Tidball K. Community gardens as contexts for science, stewardship, and civic action learning. Cities and the Environment 2009, 2(1):8.
34. Landman R. Creating community in the city: Cooperatives and community gardens in Washington, DC 1993, Bergin & Garvey, Westport, CT.
35. Leopold A. A sand county almanac 1949, Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK.
36. Larsson M. Stadsdelsträdgård-plats för gemenskap och kreativa processer (Public Garden. A Place for Community and Creative Processes). Doctoral Diss. Dept. of Landscape Architecture, SLU. Acta Universitatis agriculturae Sueciae 2009, 40. (in Swedish).
37. Lave J. Cognition in practice 1988, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
38. Lave J., Wenger E. Situated learning: Legitimate peripheral participation 1991, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
39. Lawrence A. The first cockoo in winter, phenology, recording, credibility and meaning in Britain. Global Environmental Change 2009, 19:173-179.
40. Leonard-Barton D., Sensiper S. The role of tacit knowledge in group innovation. California Management Review 1998, 40(3):112-132.
41. Levkoe C. Learning democracy through food justice movements. Agriculture and Human Values 2006, 23(1):89-98.
42. Marcus C., Barnes M. Healing gardens: Therapeutic benefits and design recommendations 1999, John Wiley & Sons Inc., New Jersey.
43. McDaniel J., Alley K.D. Connecting local environmental knowledge and land use practices: A human ecosystem approach to urbanization in West Georgia. Urban Ecosystems 2005, 8:23-38.
44. McKenna J., Quinn R., Donnelly D., Cooper A. Accurate mental maps as an aspect of local ecological knowledge (LEK): A case study from Lough Neagh, Northern Ireland. Ecology and Society 2008, 13(1):1-23.
45. McKinney M.L. Urbanization, biodiversity, and conservation. BioScience 2002, 52:883-890.
46. Miller J. Biodiversity conservation and the extinction of experience. Trends in Ecology & Evolution 2005, 20(8):430-434.
47. Misztal B.A. Theories of social remembering 2003, Open University Press, Maidenhead.
48. Murdoch J. Post-structuralist geography: A guide to relational space 2006, Sage Publications Ltd., London.
49. Muro M., Jeffrey P. A critical review of the theory and application of social learning in participatory natural resource management processes. Journal of Environmental Planning and Management 2008, 51(3):325-344.
50. Nazarea V. Local knowledge and memory in biodiversity conservation. Annual Review of Anthropology 2006, 35(1):317.
51. Ostrom E., Schlager E. The formation of property rights. Rights to nature 1996, 127-156. Island Press, Washington, DC. S. Hanna, C. Folke, K.-G. Mäler (Eds.).
52. Pilgrim S., Cullen L., Smith D., Pretty J. Ecological knowledge is lost in wealthier communities and countries. Environmental Science & Technology 2008, 42(4):1004-1009.
53. Pahl-Wostl C., Craps M., Dewulf A., Mostert E., Tabara D., Taillieu T. Social learning and water resources management. Ecology and Society 2007, 12(2):5. http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol12/iss2/art5/.
54. Pahl-Wostl C., Mostert E., Tàbara D. The growing importance of social learning in water resources management and sustainability science. Ecology and Society 2008, 13(1):24. http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol13/iss1/art24/.
55. Polanyi M. The tacit dimension 1966, Doubleday & Co., UK.
56. Pretty J.N. Participatory learning for sustainable agriculture. World Development 1995, 23:1247-1263.
57. Pyle R. The extinction of experience. Horticulture 1978, 56:64-67.
58. Reed M., Evely A.C., Cundill G., Fazey I., Glass J., Laing A., et al. What is social learning?. Ecology & Society 2010, 15(4).
59. Rosol M. Gemeinschaftsgarten in Berlin: eine qualitative Untersuchung zu Potenzialen und Risiken burgerschaftlichen Engagements im Grunflachenbereich vor dem Hintergrund des Wandels von Staat und Planung 2006, Mensch-und-Buch-Verlag, Berlin, (in German).
60. Rosol M. Public participation in post-Fordist urban green space governance: The case of community gardens in Berlin. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 2010, 34(3):548-563.
61. Saldivar-Tanaka L., Krasny M. Culturing community development, neighborhood open space, and civic agriculture: The case of Latino community gardens in New York City. Agriculture and Human Values 2004, 21(4):399-412.
62. Samways M. Rescuing the extinction of experience. Biodiversity and Conservation 2007, 16(7):1995-1997.
63. Saxe G. Culture and cognitive development: Studies in mathematical understanding 1991, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates Hillsdale, NJ.
64. Schama S. Landscape and memory 1995, Vintage Books, New York.
65. Shinew K., Glover T., Parry D. Leisure spaces as potential sites for interracial interaction: Community gardens in urban areas. Journal of Leisure Research 2004, 36(3):336-356.
66. Sinclair P., Frands Herschend F., Nordquist G., Isendahl C. The urban mind, cultural and environmental dynamics, Studies in global archaeology 15 2010, Uppsala University Press, Uppsala, Sweden.
67. Steffen W., Persson Å., Deutsch L., Zalasiewicz J., Williemas M., Richardson K., et al. The Anhtropocene: From global change to planetary stewardship. AMBIO: A Journal of the Human Environment 2011, 40:739-761.
68. Stokes D. Conservators of experience. BioScience 2006, 56(1):7-8.
69. Theodori G.L., Luloff A.E., Willits F.K. The association of outdoor recreation and environmental concern: Reexamining the Dunlap-Heffernan thesis. Rural Sociology 1998, 63:94-108.
70. Tidball G.K., Krasny E.M., Svendsen E., Cambell L., Helphand K. Stewardship, learning and memory in disaster resilience. Environmental Learning Research 2010, 16(5-6):591-609.
71. Wenger E. Communities of practice, learning, meaning and identity 1998, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
72. Wenger E. Communities of practice and social learning systems. Organization 2000, 7(2):225.
73. Westley F., Olsson P., Folke C., Homer-Dixon T., Vredenburg H., et al. Tipping toward sustainability: Emerging pathways of transformation. AMBIO: A Journal of the Human Environment 2011, 40:762-780.
74. Whatmore S., Hinchliffe S. Living cities: Making space for urban nature. Soundings: A Journal of Politics and Culture 2003, 22:137-150.
75. Zanoni P., Janssens M. Sustainable diversities. Sustainable cities. Diversity, economic growth and social cohesion 2009, 3-25. Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, UK. M. Janssens, D. Pinelli, D.C. Reyman, S. Wallman (Eds.).