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Cultivating Resilience: Urban Stewardship Practives as Indicators of Social Resilience and Recovery
1. CULTIVATING RESILIENCE:
URBAN STEWARDSHIP PRACTICES AS INDICATORS OF
SOCIAL RESILIENCE AND RECOVERY
Erika S. Svendsen, Lindsay K. Campbell, Heather L. McMillen & Renae Reynolds
US Forest Service
Northern Research Station
New York City Field Station
Partners in Community Forestry Conference
Arbor Day Foundation
November 16-17, 2016
2. “To improve quality of life in urban
areas by conducting and
supporting research about social-
ecological systems and natural
resource management”
New York City Field Station
4. Urban environmental stewards conserve, manage, monitor, advocate or educate
the public about the local environment
Svendsen and Campbell 2008; Fisher et al 2012
5. Social resilience:
The ability of groups or communities to cope with external stresses and
disturbances as a result of social, political & environmental change (Adger 2000).
10. Greening in the Red Zone
Disaster, Resilience and Community Greening
Tidball and Kransy, eds. (2014)
Bomb crater in 1942 London is transformed into a garden
(Photo by Harry Shepherd, provided courtesy of Keith Tidball)
12. The pergola became a focal point for socializing and knowledge exchange at the B41st Garden
Photo by Mary Wyatt, TKF Foundation, 2016 Photo by Giles Ashford, 2016
13. Four garden signs created by resident gardeners during a design workshop at B41st Garden.
Photos by Renae Reynolds, 2016
14. Residents and volunteers prepare a new bioswale together at B41st Gardens
Photos by Giles Ashford, 2016
20. What we derive from nature (e.g. ecosystem benefits) is different from what is
produced through the co-creation (e.g. stewardship) of the urban forest
24. The Baltimore Tree Tribe, 1995
Social Trust
Photo from US Forest Service, Revitalizing Baltimore archive
25. In Wilderness is the preservation of the world
Henry David Thoreau
26. We should ask about the ways in which wilderness functions to preserve and
expand the life of democracy. We know intuitively, and, on many dimensions
empirically, that in preserving wilderness we are preserving our own humanity.
William R. Burch, Jr. (1974) Democracy and Wilderness