The document summarizes a presentation given on community-based ecological restoration and its ability to enhance resilience and transitions toward peace. It discusses how restoring nature in the aftermath of conflicts and disasters can help manage social-ecological systems. It provides examples of greening efforts in "red zones," or areas impacted by war, terrorism, or natural disasters. The presentation outlines evidence that greening improves health, identity, and governance. It proposes a process where individuals are drawn to nature, form communities, and undertake larger restoration work, ultimately recovering a sense of place and resilience.
Nature and Green Spaces: Sources, Sites, and Systems of Resilience and Other ...Keith G. Tidball
The document discusses how nature and green spaces can provide resilience and recovery in systems disrupted by disasters or conflicts. It explores concepts like biophilia, restorative environments, and topophilia that may explain why people engage in greening activities during crises. Examples of memorialization through gardening and tree planting are given, as are cases of social-ecological symbols and rituals involving nature that confer psychological and social benefits. The document examines how discourses of hope and defiance expressed through greening can build resilience at individual and community levels.
Tg science q4 basics of ecology and human impact on ecosystemsComp Lab Man
This document outlines a curriculum for a unit on ecology and human stewardship of the Earth. It includes three stages:
1) Students will learn about basic ecological concepts like communities and habitats. They will examine human impacts and our role as stewards.
2) As a performance task, students will work in groups on an environmental project in their community, demonstrating cooperation, innovation, and contribution to conservation.
3) The teaching sequence will begin with assessing prior knowledge, introducing topics, and generating questions. Students will then demonstrate their understanding through explanation, interpretation, application, and assuming perspectives related to environmental protection.
Greening in the Red Zone - Valuing Community-based Ecological Restoration in ...Keith G. Tidball
Presentation given Oct 17, 2012
CUNY Center for Urban Environmental Reform
CUNY School of Law
2 Court Square
Long Island City, NY
11101
A presentation of the
New York City Urban Field Station
Quarterly Research Seminar Series
A partnership between the
USDA Forest Service
and
New York City Department of
Parks and Recreation
Healthy Planet, Healthy People: Shaping a Sustainable Healthy FutureangeliaGeo
This document is the summer 2006 issue of the VicHealth Letter, which discusses topics related to shaping a sustainable and healthy future. It contains articles about connecting with nature and its benefits for health and wellbeing. Cities around the world are focusing on health, wellbeing and ecological sustainability. The value of partnerships to achieve mutual environmental and health benefits is also discussed. The issue aims to reinforce the links between environments and human health.
Healthy Parks, Healthy People: The Health Benefits of Contact with NatureangeliaGeo
This document summarizes the health benefits of contact with nature in parks. It discusses how parks were originally designed to provide health benefits but are now mainly seen as venues for leisure and sport. However, recent research demonstrates that experiencing nature in parks can provide significant health and well-being benefits, such as reduced stress and boosted immunity. Parks play an essential role in public health by providing access to nature and protecting ecosystems, especially in urban environments where they may be the only source of natural experiences for many people.
This document analyzes trends in ecological footprints in the Mediterranean region. It is a collaboration between Global Footprint Network, WWF Mediterranean, UNESCO Venice, Plan Bleu, and others. The document finds that the ecological footprints of Mediterranean nations now exceed the region's biocapacity by over 150%. Addressing ecological deficits and reducing fossil fuel dependence will help countries combat climate change and become more economically resilient by managing biocapacity and reducing demand on natural resources. Taking action now will be less costly than waiting, as countries can build economies that work with nature instead of against it.
The document discusses a presentation by the IU South Bend Center for a Sustainable Future on November 4, 2011. It thanks underwriters for sponsoring the event and discusses sustainability challenges facing the planet like climate change, resource depletion, and environmental degradation. It introduces the framework of The Natural Step for achieving sustainability and its four system conditions. The presentation explains how sustainability brings environmental, economic and social considerations into balance and argues that sustainability is both the world's greatest challenge and greatest opportunity.
The document discusses the human benefits of green spaces. It summarizes research finding that interaction with nature provides mental, physical, and social benefits such as reduced stress, improved concentration and healing. Specifically, it finds exposure to nature lowers violence and crime while improving workplace productivity and driving safety. However, most people are unaware of these benefits due to "plant blindness" where plants are seen as background rather than contributors to well-being. Minor investments in parks can have large returns by reducing healthcare and social costs.
Nature and Green Spaces: Sources, Sites, and Systems of Resilience and Other ...Keith G. Tidball
The document discusses how nature and green spaces can provide resilience and recovery in systems disrupted by disasters or conflicts. It explores concepts like biophilia, restorative environments, and topophilia that may explain why people engage in greening activities during crises. Examples of memorialization through gardening and tree planting are given, as are cases of social-ecological symbols and rituals involving nature that confer psychological and social benefits. The document examines how discourses of hope and defiance expressed through greening can build resilience at individual and community levels.
Tg science q4 basics of ecology and human impact on ecosystemsComp Lab Man
This document outlines a curriculum for a unit on ecology and human stewardship of the Earth. It includes three stages:
1) Students will learn about basic ecological concepts like communities and habitats. They will examine human impacts and our role as stewards.
2) As a performance task, students will work in groups on an environmental project in their community, demonstrating cooperation, innovation, and contribution to conservation.
3) The teaching sequence will begin with assessing prior knowledge, introducing topics, and generating questions. Students will then demonstrate their understanding through explanation, interpretation, application, and assuming perspectives related to environmental protection.
Greening in the Red Zone - Valuing Community-based Ecological Restoration in ...Keith G. Tidball
Presentation given Oct 17, 2012
CUNY Center for Urban Environmental Reform
CUNY School of Law
2 Court Square
Long Island City, NY
11101
A presentation of the
New York City Urban Field Station
Quarterly Research Seminar Series
A partnership between the
USDA Forest Service
and
New York City Department of
Parks and Recreation
Healthy Planet, Healthy People: Shaping a Sustainable Healthy FutureangeliaGeo
This document is the summer 2006 issue of the VicHealth Letter, which discusses topics related to shaping a sustainable and healthy future. It contains articles about connecting with nature and its benefits for health and wellbeing. Cities around the world are focusing on health, wellbeing and ecological sustainability. The value of partnerships to achieve mutual environmental and health benefits is also discussed. The issue aims to reinforce the links between environments and human health.
Healthy Parks, Healthy People: The Health Benefits of Contact with NatureangeliaGeo
This document summarizes the health benefits of contact with nature in parks. It discusses how parks were originally designed to provide health benefits but are now mainly seen as venues for leisure and sport. However, recent research demonstrates that experiencing nature in parks can provide significant health and well-being benefits, such as reduced stress and boosted immunity. Parks play an essential role in public health by providing access to nature and protecting ecosystems, especially in urban environments where they may be the only source of natural experiences for many people.
This document analyzes trends in ecological footprints in the Mediterranean region. It is a collaboration between Global Footprint Network, WWF Mediterranean, UNESCO Venice, Plan Bleu, and others. The document finds that the ecological footprints of Mediterranean nations now exceed the region's biocapacity by over 150%. Addressing ecological deficits and reducing fossil fuel dependence will help countries combat climate change and become more economically resilient by managing biocapacity and reducing demand on natural resources. Taking action now will be less costly than waiting, as countries can build economies that work with nature instead of against it.
The document discusses a presentation by the IU South Bend Center for a Sustainable Future on November 4, 2011. It thanks underwriters for sponsoring the event and discusses sustainability challenges facing the planet like climate change, resource depletion, and environmental degradation. It introduces the framework of The Natural Step for achieving sustainability and its four system conditions. The presentation explains how sustainability brings environmental, economic and social considerations into balance and argues that sustainability is both the world's greatest challenge and greatest opportunity.
The document discusses the human benefits of green spaces. It summarizes research finding that interaction with nature provides mental, physical, and social benefits such as reduced stress, improved concentration and healing. Specifically, it finds exposure to nature lowers violence and crime while improving workplace productivity and driving safety. However, most people are unaware of these benefits due to "plant blindness" where plants are seen as background rather than contributors to well-being. Minor investments in parks can have large returns by reducing healthcare and social costs.
The document discusses the mental health benefits of urban greenspace based on existing literature and evidence. It examines the commonly cited beliefs that contact with nature in cities can reduce stress and improve well-being. The scientific evidence for these claims comes from a few types of studies: controlled experiments showing benefits of natural views/settings, studies using nature photos/videos to test reactions, surveys of people's experiences and preferences in nature, and analyses of health data related to locations. While some evidence supports the beliefs, the magnitude of nature's effects depends also on lack of stressors in built environments. Overall access to restorative natural areas in cities may produce short and long-term mental and physical health benefits.
The Influence of Gardening Activities on Consumer Perceptions of Life Satisfa...BenBeckers
This study investigated the influence of gardening on perceptions of life satisfaction. The researchers surveyed over 400 gardeners and non-gardeners using the Life Satisfaction Inventory A (LSIA), which measures five components of quality of life. Results showed that gardeners had statistically significant higher overall life satisfaction scores than non-gardeners. When individual statements were analyzed, gardeners responded more positively on statements relating to energy levels, optimism, zest for life, and physical self-concept. Gardeners also rated their overall health and physical activity levels higher than non-gardeners.
MDGs and Global Environmental Change - Governance, Innovation and LearningEuforic Services
Presentation by Andreas Rechkemmer (IHDP) during the High Level Policy Forum - After 2015: Promoting Pro-poor Policy after the MDGs - Brussels, 23 June 2009 - http://www.bit.ly/after2015
Ecosystem services - the Climbeco critiqueSarah Cornell
Here are a few thoughts on ecosystem services:
- Ecosystem services does not necessarily have to be about money. The original concept focused more broadly on the benefits humans receive from nature. Monetary valuation is one approach, but not the only way to assess value.
- Defining ecosystem values in monetary terms has both benefits and limitations. It can help raise awareness and influence policymakers, but also risks reducing nature to an economic commodity. Non-monetary approaches are needed to capture aspects like cultural, spiritual or intrinsic values.
- Alternative approaches to valuation include deliberative methods like citizens' juries that incorporate social and ethical considerations. Multi-criteria analysis can also integrate monetary with non-monetary indicators. Indigenous and traditional knowledge
This document provides information about an energy sustainability workshop on applying The Natural Step framework to not-for-profits. It discusses challenges like climate change, resource depletion, and sustainability. It introduces The Natural Step as a scientific, holistic framework and explains its four system conditions. The workshop covers strategies like systems thinking, learning organizations, and backcasting to create a sustainability action plan. Case studies of Organically Grown Company and the City of Madison, WI are presented that applied The Natural Step approach.
This document outlines a curriculum for teaching Integrative Biology focused on the balance of nature. It includes standards, essential understandings and questions, topics to be covered, and a three-stage teaching plan. The curriculum aims to demonstrate how understanding balance of nature can contribute to conserving local biodiversity through community involvement. Learners will explore balance of nature concepts, Philippine biodiversity issues and laws, and propose and evaluate plans of action. Assessment involves learner participation in resource management activities and demonstrations of understanding balance of nature's importance for conservation.
Civic Ecology, Greening in the Red Zone, & Urban Environmental Stewarship Keith G. Tidball
Civic ecology is the study of interactions between community environmental stewardship, education, culture/institutions, and ecosystem services. It examines how stewardship practices emerge in "broken places" due to people's love of life and places. Ten principles of civic ecology are described, including how practices start locally and expand through partnerships while being resilient to chaos/renewal. The document discusses conceptualizing stewardship over space and time, noting it involves social mechanisms behind management practices based on local ecological knowledge. It explores how stewardship evolves through resilience, learning from disturbances. Key mechanisms of civic ecology identified are urgent biophilia, restorative topophilia, memorialization, rituals, and discourses that shape recovery.
The document summarizes different approaches used by anti-environmentalists to attack environmental regulations and recommends new approaches for environmentalists. It analyzes three alternative approaches - incentive-based policies, community-based decision making, and ecosystem-based management - using Cohen's framework. It recommends incentive-based policies due to their ability to balance interests, involve media and politicians, and lay the foundation for long-term ecosystem management. Sensitivity analysis notes community-based decision making is also viable but incentive policies could be manipulated without oversight.
Disinegrated development of the built and natural environment ruralfringe
This article discusses the divide that exists between planning for the built and natural environments in public policy and planning. It provides three key points:
1) Planning for the built and natural environments has been artificially separated since the 1947 Town and Country Planning Act, which established separate systems for urban development control and rural land management. This has led to "disintegrated planning" with different agencies, tools, and approaches for each.
2) Bridging this divide is important for effective long-term environmental management but it is hindered by institutional silos and a lack of coordination between departments like Defra and DCLG. The article provides examples from the West Midlands to illustrate the different perspectives and boundaries that intensify
This article discusses the divide that exists between planning for the built and natural environments in public policy and planning. It provides three key points:
1) Planning for the built and natural environments has been artificially separated since the 1947 Town and Country Planning Act, which established separate systems for urban development control and rural land management. This has led to "disintegrated planning" with different agencies, tools, and approaches for each.
2) Bridging this divide is important for effective long-term environmental management but it is hindered by institutional silos and a lack of coordination between policy domains like housing, transportation, and conservation. The article provides examples from the West Midlands to illustrate the divide.
3)
Seeds, Soils and Stories: Benefits of Community GardensBenBeckers
The document discusses a research project that investigated the health benefits of community gardening in Southeast Toronto. The project used community-based research methods like participant observation, focus groups, and interviews with gardeners. Key findings included social, mental and physical health benefits of gardening. Challenges faced included lack of land and resources. Greater support is needed to help gardens access land and supplies to continue providing benefits to communities.
Health, Well-being and Social Inclusion: Therapeutic Horticulture in the UKangeliaGeo
This executive summary evaluates a 3-year research project on the benefits of horticultural therapy. The study found that gardening projects provide social, physical, and mental health benefits to vulnerable adults, including opportunities for social interaction, exercise, skill-building, and stress reduction. Participants experienced improvements in self-esteem, social inclusion, and overall well-being. The report recommends expanding such programs and recognizing horticultural therapy as a profession to further promote health and social inclusion.
Topic 1.1 environmental value systems for the IB ESS Course.
What is an Environmental Value System?
What influence your EVS?
How are Environmental Values a System?
Spectrum of EVS
Historical Influences on the environmental movement
Case study: Zakouma National Park shifting Environmental Values
1. Observing nature and participating in physical activity in greenspaces plays an important role in positively influencing human health and well-being. 'Green exercise' is associated with positive health outcomes which exceed exercising without nature.
2. Ecosystems provide three generic health benefits: direct positive effects on mental and physical health, indirect positive effects by facilitating nature-based activities and social engagement, and reducing threats from pollution and disease vectors.
3. While all UK habitats contribute to health benefits, the habitat that has received the most study is Urban greenspace due to the contrast it provides to the built environment.
This presentation discusses community-based ecological restoration to enhance resilience and transitions toward peace. It explores why humans turn to nature and restoring nature after conflict and disaster. The presentation examines how greening in vulnerable contexts can help manage social-ecological systems for resilience and peace. The speaker discusses definitions of "red zones" and "greening." Examples of greening in red zones are provided, such as restoring Iraq's wetlands and replanting Sarajevo's urban forest after war. Evidence is presented that greening can provide benefits in vulnerable contexts. The presentation then focuses on a case study of greening in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina.
This document provides an overview of environmental science as an interdisciplinary field that studies human interactions with other organisms and the abiotic environment. It discusses key concepts like ecosystems, population dynamics, pollution, and resource management. It introduces the scientific method as an approach using experiments, hypotheses, and peer review. It also briefly outlines topics that will be covered in the course, including major ecosystems, natural succession, carrying capacity, and conservation. The document emphasizes that environmental science draws on many disciplines and seeks to understand complex natural systems and solve environmental problems.
This document summarizes the key points from a presentation on the Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity (TEEB). It discusses the value of ecosystem services and natural capital. It provides examples of provisioning, regulating and cultural ecosystem services. It highlights the economic importance of pollination for agriculture and pest control for reducing losses. The document also discusses the role of protected areas like Natura 2000 sites and opportunities for organic farming within these areas.
The document summarizes the second phase of the Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity (TEEB) Initiative. It provides background on TEEB, recaps the results and impacts of phase 1, and outlines the ambitions, activities, content, and process for phase 2. Phase 2 will broaden the scope of studies to additional ecosystem services and biomes, focus on products for end-users like policymakers, and involve more experts and organizations. The COPI study conducted in phase 1 found that biodiversity and ecosystem losses between 2000-2050 could result in welfare losses of over $14 trillion by 2050. Phase 2 aims to further analyze and communicate the economic benefits of protecting nature.
The document discusses the Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity (TEEB) initiative. TEEB aims to 1) assess and communicate the economic significance of biodiversity loss, 2) demonstrate the value of ecosystems in decisions, and 3) address the needs of policymakers. TEEB Phase 1 involved preliminary analysis and clarification. Phase 2 expands the analysis, focuses on end-user products, and strengthens expert involvement to better account for natural capital in measurement and decisions. The document provides background on biodiversity and ecosystem losses to communicate the urgency of action.
Green infrastructure provides environmental, economic, and social benefits. It uses natural systems or mimics natural processes to manage stormwater, and can be implemented at various scales from regional to site levels. Examples include urban forests, parks, constructed wetlands, and green roofs. Benefits include improved air and water quality, increased physical activity, better mental health, and environmental justice. Green infrastructure principles emphasize multi-functionality, connectivity, habitability, resiliency, identity, and return on investment. Planning approaches integrate these principles through regional plans, functional plans, comprehensive plans, development regulations, and capital projects.
Statins and Greenspaces: Health and the Urban EnvironmentBenBeckers
This document summarizes a conference that discussed the health benefits of urban green spaces.
The conference included panels and presentations on topics such as the accessibility and safety of open spaces, the psychological and mental health benefits of nature, health inequalities in different parts of the world, and how plants and animals in open spaces relate to health.
Presenters found that while green spaces can provide mental health benefits, not all groups access them equally due to issues of lifestyle, values and feeling integrated. Quantitative data also may not capture realities of accessibility. International perspectives showed green spaces are essential in majority world contexts for growing food and reducing mortality versus passive recreation in Western contexts. Effectively communicating the health impacts of green spaces to policymakers requires
The document discusses the mental health benefits of urban greenspace based on existing literature and evidence. It examines the commonly cited beliefs that contact with nature in cities can reduce stress and improve well-being. The scientific evidence for these claims comes from a few types of studies: controlled experiments showing benefits of natural views/settings, studies using nature photos/videos to test reactions, surveys of people's experiences and preferences in nature, and analyses of health data related to locations. While some evidence supports the beliefs, the magnitude of nature's effects depends also on lack of stressors in built environments. Overall access to restorative natural areas in cities may produce short and long-term mental and physical health benefits.
The Influence of Gardening Activities on Consumer Perceptions of Life Satisfa...BenBeckers
This study investigated the influence of gardening on perceptions of life satisfaction. The researchers surveyed over 400 gardeners and non-gardeners using the Life Satisfaction Inventory A (LSIA), which measures five components of quality of life. Results showed that gardeners had statistically significant higher overall life satisfaction scores than non-gardeners. When individual statements were analyzed, gardeners responded more positively on statements relating to energy levels, optimism, zest for life, and physical self-concept. Gardeners also rated their overall health and physical activity levels higher than non-gardeners.
MDGs and Global Environmental Change - Governance, Innovation and LearningEuforic Services
Presentation by Andreas Rechkemmer (IHDP) during the High Level Policy Forum - After 2015: Promoting Pro-poor Policy after the MDGs - Brussels, 23 June 2009 - http://www.bit.ly/after2015
Ecosystem services - the Climbeco critiqueSarah Cornell
Here are a few thoughts on ecosystem services:
- Ecosystem services does not necessarily have to be about money. The original concept focused more broadly on the benefits humans receive from nature. Monetary valuation is one approach, but not the only way to assess value.
- Defining ecosystem values in monetary terms has both benefits and limitations. It can help raise awareness and influence policymakers, but also risks reducing nature to an economic commodity. Non-monetary approaches are needed to capture aspects like cultural, spiritual or intrinsic values.
- Alternative approaches to valuation include deliberative methods like citizens' juries that incorporate social and ethical considerations. Multi-criteria analysis can also integrate monetary with non-monetary indicators. Indigenous and traditional knowledge
This document provides information about an energy sustainability workshop on applying The Natural Step framework to not-for-profits. It discusses challenges like climate change, resource depletion, and sustainability. It introduces The Natural Step as a scientific, holistic framework and explains its four system conditions. The workshop covers strategies like systems thinking, learning organizations, and backcasting to create a sustainability action plan. Case studies of Organically Grown Company and the City of Madison, WI are presented that applied The Natural Step approach.
This document outlines a curriculum for teaching Integrative Biology focused on the balance of nature. It includes standards, essential understandings and questions, topics to be covered, and a three-stage teaching plan. The curriculum aims to demonstrate how understanding balance of nature can contribute to conserving local biodiversity through community involvement. Learners will explore balance of nature concepts, Philippine biodiversity issues and laws, and propose and evaluate plans of action. Assessment involves learner participation in resource management activities and demonstrations of understanding balance of nature's importance for conservation.
Civic Ecology, Greening in the Red Zone, & Urban Environmental Stewarship Keith G. Tidball
Civic ecology is the study of interactions between community environmental stewardship, education, culture/institutions, and ecosystem services. It examines how stewardship practices emerge in "broken places" due to people's love of life and places. Ten principles of civic ecology are described, including how practices start locally and expand through partnerships while being resilient to chaos/renewal. The document discusses conceptualizing stewardship over space and time, noting it involves social mechanisms behind management practices based on local ecological knowledge. It explores how stewardship evolves through resilience, learning from disturbances. Key mechanisms of civic ecology identified are urgent biophilia, restorative topophilia, memorialization, rituals, and discourses that shape recovery.
The document summarizes different approaches used by anti-environmentalists to attack environmental regulations and recommends new approaches for environmentalists. It analyzes three alternative approaches - incentive-based policies, community-based decision making, and ecosystem-based management - using Cohen's framework. It recommends incentive-based policies due to their ability to balance interests, involve media and politicians, and lay the foundation for long-term ecosystem management. Sensitivity analysis notes community-based decision making is also viable but incentive policies could be manipulated without oversight.
Disinegrated development of the built and natural environment ruralfringe
This article discusses the divide that exists between planning for the built and natural environments in public policy and planning. It provides three key points:
1) Planning for the built and natural environments has been artificially separated since the 1947 Town and Country Planning Act, which established separate systems for urban development control and rural land management. This has led to "disintegrated planning" with different agencies, tools, and approaches for each.
2) Bridging this divide is important for effective long-term environmental management but it is hindered by institutional silos and a lack of coordination between departments like Defra and DCLG. The article provides examples from the West Midlands to illustrate the different perspectives and boundaries that intensify
This article discusses the divide that exists between planning for the built and natural environments in public policy and planning. It provides three key points:
1) Planning for the built and natural environments has been artificially separated since the 1947 Town and Country Planning Act, which established separate systems for urban development control and rural land management. This has led to "disintegrated planning" with different agencies, tools, and approaches for each.
2) Bridging this divide is important for effective long-term environmental management but it is hindered by institutional silos and a lack of coordination between policy domains like housing, transportation, and conservation. The article provides examples from the West Midlands to illustrate the divide.
3)
Seeds, Soils and Stories: Benefits of Community GardensBenBeckers
The document discusses a research project that investigated the health benefits of community gardening in Southeast Toronto. The project used community-based research methods like participant observation, focus groups, and interviews with gardeners. Key findings included social, mental and physical health benefits of gardening. Challenges faced included lack of land and resources. Greater support is needed to help gardens access land and supplies to continue providing benefits to communities.
Health, Well-being and Social Inclusion: Therapeutic Horticulture in the UKangeliaGeo
This executive summary evaluates a 3-year research project on the benefits of horticultural therapy. The study found that gardening projects provide social, physical, and mental health benefits to vulnerable adults, including opportunities for social interaction, exercise, skill-building, and stress reduction. Participants experienced improvements in self-esteem, social inclusion, and overall well-being. The report recommends expanding such programs and recognizing horticultural therapy as a profession to further promote health and social inclusion.
Topic 1.1 environmental value systems for the IB ESS Course.
What is an Environmental Value System?
What influence your EVS?
How are Environmental Values a System?
Spectrum of EVS
Historical Influences on the environmental movement
Case study: Zakouma National Park shifting Environmental Values
1. Observing nature and participating in physical activity in greenspaces plays an important role in positively influencing human health and well-being. 'Green exercise' is associated with positive health outcomes which exceed exercising without nature.
2. Ecosystems provide three generic health benefits: direct positive effects on mental and physical health, indirect positive effects by facilitating nature-based activities and social engagement, and reducing threats from pollution and disease vectors.
3. While all UK habitats contribute to health benefits, the habitat that has received the most study is Urban greenspace due to the contrast it provides to the built environment.
This presentation discusses community-based ecological restoration to enhance resilience and transitions toward peace. It explores why humans turn to nature and restoring nature after conflict and disaster. The presentation examines how greening in vulnerable contexts can help manage social-ecological systems for resilience and peace. The speaker discusses definitions of "red zones" and "greening." Examples of greening in red zones are provided, such as restoring Iraq's wetlands and replanting Sarajevo's urban forest after war. Evidence is presented that greening can provide benefits in vulnerable contexts. The presentation then focuses on a case study of greening in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina.
This document provides an overview of environmental science as an interdisciplinary field that studies human interactions with other organisms and the abiotic environment. It discusses key concepts like ecosystems, population dynamics, pollution, and resource management. It introduces the scientific method as an approach using experiments, hypotheses, and peer review. It also briefly outlines topics that will be covered in the course, including major ecosystems, natural succession, carrying capacity, and conservation. The document emphasizes that environmental science draws on many disciplines and seeks to understand complex natural systems and solve environmental problems.
This document summarizes the key points from a presentation on the Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity (TEEB). It discusses the value of ecosystem services and natural capital. It provides examples of provisioning, regulating and cultural ecosystem services. It highlights the economic importance of pollination for agriculture and pest control for reducing losses. The document also discusses the role of protected areas like Natura 2000 sites and opportunities for organic farming within these areas.
The document summarizes the second phase of the Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity (TEEB) Initiative. It provides background on TEEB, recaps the results and impacts of phase 1, and outlines the ambitions, activities, content, and process for phase 2. Phase 2 will broaden the scope of studies to additional ecosystem services and biomes, focus on products for end-users like policymakers, and involve more experts and organizations. The COPI study conducted in phase 1 found that biodiversity and ecosystem losses between 2000-2050 could result in welfare losses of over $14 trillion by 2050. Phase 2 aims to further analyze and communicate the economic benefits of protecting nature.
The document discusses the Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity (TEEB) initiative. TEEB aims to 1) assess and communicate the economic significance of biodiversity loss, 2) demonstrate the value of ecosystems in decisions, and 3) address the needs of policymakers. TEEB Phase 1 involved preliminary analysis and clarification. Phase 2 expands the analysis, focuses on end-user products, and strengthens expert involvement to better account for natural capital in measurement and decisions. The document provides background on biodiversity and ecosystem losses to communicate the urgency of action.
Green infrastructure provides environmental, economic, and social benefits. It uses natural systems or mimics natural processes to manage stormwater, and can be implemented at various scales from regional to site levels. Examples include urban forests, parks, constructed wetlands, and green roofs. Benefits include improved air and water quality, increased physical activity, better mental health, and environmental justice. Green infrastructure principles emphasize multi-functionality, connectivity, habitability, resiliency, identity, and return on investment. Planning approaches integrate these principles through regional plans, functional plans, comprehensive plans, development regulations, and capital projects.
Statins and Greenspaces: Health and the Urban EnvironmentBenBeckers
This document summarizes a conference that discussed the health benefits of urban green spaces.
The conference included panels and presentations on topics such as the accessibility and safety of open spaces, the psychological and mental health benefits of nature, health inequalities in different parts of the world, and how plants and animals in open spaces relate to health.
Presenters found that while green spaces can provide mental health benefits, not all groups access them equally due to issues of lifestyle, values and feeling integrated. Quantitative data also may not capture realities of accessibility. International perspectives showed green spaces are essential in majority world contexts for growing food and reducing mortality versus passive recreation in Western contexts. Effectively communicating the health impacts of green spaces to policymakers requires
The 2010 Secondary Education Curriculum outlines the science program standards and general standards for grades 7-10. The focus is on demonstrating understanding of basic science concepts and processes in an integrative way to solve problems critically, think innovatively, and make informed decisions to enhance human and environmental well-being. For grade 8, the general standard is on demonstrating understanding of basic biology concepts and processes as deepened by other disciplines, to analyze problems critically, think creatively, and make decisions to enhance human and environmental integrity. One assessment focuses on understanding balance of nature and its role in conserving local biodiversity through active community involvement in resource management.
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The document outlines the 2010 Secondary Education Curriculum for Science in the Philippines. It discusses the general standards and content for Integrated Science (Grade 7), Integrative Biology (Grade 8), Integrative Chemistry (Grade 9), and Integrative Physics (Grade 10). The curriculum aims to develop students' understanding of basic science concepts and ability to critically analyze and solve problems related to human and environmental wellness. It also seeks to promote informed decision making. Specific topics covered include balance of nature, cellular structures and functions, life energy processes, human organ systems, and genetics. The curriculum emphasizes hands-on learning and application of concepts
The document discusses the design of an "Eco-cell", which is a framework for education for sustainability. It will be developed based on research into how deep ecology, Buddhist philosophy, systems theory, and biomimicry can assist in evolving strategies beyond mere compliance. The Eco-cell will include components like a nucleus for self-realization, a cell membrane for reconnecting to deep ecology, and a powerhouse utilizing permaculture design principles. It aims to foster an ecological self through experiential learning and an integrated holistic systems perspective.
This document discusses environmental awareness and protection through environmental education. It outlines key concepts like defining environmental education as organized efforts to teach about natural environments and sustainable human behavior. It also lists several laws governing environmental education in the Philippines like the National Environmental Awareness and Education Act of 2008. Additionally, it presents seven environmental principles like nature knows best, all forms of life are important, and everything is connected, and stresses that humans must care for the environment as stewards of nature.
Greening in the Red Zone: Urban biodiversity as opportunity in post-disaster...Keith G. Tidball
Urban biodiversity and greening can help recovery efforts in post-disaster and post-conflict areas. When community members actively participate in greening projects, it can provide health, social, and environmental benefits. Some of these benefits include improved individual and community well-being, environmental peacemaking, restarting social and ecological systems, preventing future disasters by developing self-reliance, and restoring a sense of place and social healing. Green spaces also represent opportunities to recognize the value of urban biodiversity in reducing vulnerability and increasing resilience to future challenges.
Crafting effective messages for environmental conservationCaren Magill-Myers
Most people that behave in environmentally conscious ways will claim that they do so because they are motivated by reasons of social responsibility toward conservation. They may even admit that there are economic advantages to doing so. However, they would be largely incorrect. The following literature review will examine the most likely cause for motivating the public to adopt pro-environmental behavior, and how these cognitive reactions can best be put to use the in development of conservation campaign messages.
1) The document provides a summary of a class on sustainable design and the role of NGOs and activists in bringing about positive environmental change.
2) It discusses the history of the US environmental movement from Thoreau to Rachel Carson's Silent Spring to the establishment of the EPA.
3) It also covers concepts like deep ecology, inverted quarantine, leverage points, and how consumption and political action became separated in industrial societies.
4) The class discusses ways NGOs have used campaigns to change business practices and encourages students to research the environmental impacts of specific products.
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Greening in the Red Zone: Community-based Ecological Restoration to Enhance Resilience and Transitions Toward Peace
1. Presentation given Nov 25, 2012
International Peace Research Association
in the
General Conference
Ecology and Peace Commission
Tsu City, Mie Prefecture, Japan
Community-based Ecological Restoration to
Enhance Resilience and Transitions Toward Peace
Keith G. Tidball, PhD
kgtidball@cornell.edu
www.civicecology.org
3. Why do humans turn to nature, and
restoring nature, in the wake of conflict
and disaster?
Of what use might greening in human
vulnerability and security contexts be in
managing social-ecological systems for
resilience and transitions to peace?
4. HUMAN VULNERABILITY & SECURITY CONTEXTS ….
+ +
Population growth Climate Change Resource scarcity
5. What is a red zone?
“Red Zones” refer to multiple settings (spatial and temporal)
that may be characterized as intense, potentially or recently
hostile or dangerous, including those associated with terrorist
attacks and war, as well as in post-disaster situations caused by
natural disasters such as hurricanes and earthquakes.
6. What is greening?
• “Greening” is an active and integrated approach to the
appreciation, stewardship and management of living elements of social-
ecological systems.
• Greening takes place in cities, towns, townships and informal settlements in
urban and peri-urban areas, and in the battlefields of war and of disaster.
• Greening sites vary -- from small woodlands, public and private urban parks
and gardens, urban natural areas, street tree and city square
plantings, botanical gardens and cemeteries, to watersheds, whole forests
and national or international parks.
• Greening involves active participation with nature and in human or civil
society (Tidball and Krasny 2007)—and thus can be distinguished from notions of
‘nature contact’ (Ulrich 1993) that imply spending time in or viewing nature, but
not necessarily active stewardship.
7. Some examples
Restoration of Iraq’s wetlands, supported by community-based natural resources
management among Iraq’s Marsh Arabs & partnerships with the scientific community
Replanting of the Urban Forest of Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Living Memorials creation throughout
NYC, Washington D.C. , and
Shanksville, PA after 9/11
Establishment of Band-e- Amir National
Park in the midst of conflict in
Afghanistan
Conservation efforts in demilitarized
border lands in the Korean peninsula and
between Greece and Cyprus
8. Evidence of the importance of greening
scientific journal articles
scholarly books
popular press and news media
public initiatives
websites
blogs
9. Why should we do it?
• Contributes shared sense of identity / rebuilding identity post-crisis
• Leads to improved psychological, cognitive, and social health
• Fosters deeper sense of self-worth as an individual contributes to the
community’s overall well-being
• Serves as basis for framing place meaning and identity, and for
empowerment through demonstrable opportunities for community
organizing
• Restarts ecosystem services producing systems
• Because greeners often form partnerships with NGOs, government, and
universities, greening contributes additional benefits to polycentric
governance approaches
10. Systems implications
• Crises open up opportunities for renewal
• Within the context of resilience, greening
operates back and forth across boundaries of
time and spatial scale
• Red zone boundaries are fluid
11. Attention to locally derived solutions
• Assets can be identified even in dystopic
environments
• Small cases may point to larger implications
12. How does it work?
Tidball, KG. 2012. Urgent Biophilia: Human-Nature Interactions and Biological
Urgent Biophilia Attractions in Disaster Resilience. Ecology and Society, 17(2).
PD*
Tidball, KG & RC Stedman. Positive Dependency and Virtuous Cycles: From
Restorative Topophilia Resource Dependence to Resilience in Urban Social-Ecological Systems.
Ecological Economics. Doi: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2012.10.004
Memorialization Tidball, KG, ME Krasny, E Svendsen, L Campbell, & K Helphand. 2010.
Stewardship, Learning, and Memory in Disaster Resilience. “Resilience in
Mechanism Social-Ecological Systems: the Role of Learning and Education,” Special Issue
of Environmental Education Research, 16(5): 341-357.
Tidball, KG (Accepted; expected 2013). Trees and Rebirth: Social-Ecological
Social-Ecological Symbols, Rituals and Resilience in Post-Katrina New Orleans. In: Tidball and
Krasny, Eds., Greening in the Red Zone: Disaster, Resilience, and Community
Symbols and Rituals Greening. Springer publishing.
*Positive Dependency complex
13. WHAT DOES IT ALL MEAN?
FINDING 1 -- There appears to be a
“greening in the red zone process or cycle”
that contains fundamental key sequential
components, but that likely is nuanced on
a case-by-case basis reflecting
landscape, disturbance intensity, and other
factors.
14. 1, Individuals gravitate toward available green assets
2. Use available green assets 3. Clusters form-
for therapeutic benefits- different paths/pace
communities of practice
4. Restore and create new green assets
5. Larger greening movement
emerges
7. New sites recruit new
individuals; expand cycle
6. Greening activities
Social-ecological system
recover & restore sense of
recovery & resilience processes
place
15. WHAT DOES IT ALL MEAN?
FINDING 2 -- Within this “greening in the red zone process”
there are at least five important mechanisms that explain
how the system functions from one sequential frame to the
next:
• Urgent Biophilia
Positive Dependency
• Restorative Topophilia
• Memorialization
• Symbol & Ritualization
16. 2. Use available green
1, Individuals gravitate toward available green assets
assets; experience 3. Clusters form-
for therapeutic benefits- different paths/pace
therapeutic benefits communities of practice
4. Restore and create new green assets
5. Larger greening movement
emerges
Memorialization SES Symbols &
Red zone commences Urgent Biophilia mechanism Rituals mechanism
mechanism
Virtuous Cycle
Restorative Topophilia mechanism
mechanism
Social-ecological system 6. Greening activities
recovery & resilience processes recover & restore sense of
place
17. What is the recipe?
Remember Recognize Decide Learn Invest Document Capitalize
18. Why is GRZ important to Peace
Research?
• Explicit example of critical importance of human
interdependence with the rest of nature
• Power of acknowledging our innate biophilia, our
love of life, as a powerful response to conflict and
destruction
• Points to the importance of remembering and
reconstituting our ecological identity towards
achieving balance amongst ourselves and other
members of life’s systems
• Optimistic potential to mitigate structural violence
and replace with peaceful, sustainable coexistence
19. IN CONCLUSION…
“…emerging consensus that the changing relationship
between human beings and the sustaining
capabilities of the global ecosystem is rapidly
becoming a significant source of human suffering. . .
the concerns of peace research should similarly shift
away from weaponry and military conflict to these new
sources of conflict and misery found … within the
limited capabilities of the global environment.”
Dennis Pirages, “The Greening of Peace Research”
Perhaps now the concerns of peace research are shifting
again, to new sources of resilience, and ecologically
based transitions to peace and human security.
20. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Northern Research Station
New York City Urban Field Station
Editor's Notes
Today just going to give an overview of the work we are doing in the civic ecology lab at Cornell University on how community based environmental management and ecological restoration can be useful in transitions towards peace after war, terrorist acts, civil unrest, and large scale natural disasters. I hope to simply introduce a few main concepts and recent findings, in order to pique interest in this activity within the realm of ecology and peace engaged scholarship.
I have spent a good deal of the past ten years, since 9/11, thinking about these two questions.
There won’t be less of these any time soon.
Now, getting back to Greening in Red Zones, and the relationships between Greening in Red Zones and human security or environmental justice, Before I go much further, I need to make sure we are clear on some definitions--
Greening can enable or enhance recovery from conflict and hasten transitions to peace in situations where community members actively participate in greening, which in turn results in measurable benefits for themselves, their community, and the environment.
Propose mechanisms and positioning (later repositioning)
5 important mechanisms of the greening in the red zone system
I want to avoid sounding prescriptive here, and emphasize that this slide represents what we have learned from cases of greening in the red zone. It seems that the “recipe’ for greening in the red zone follows this trajectory. It is initiated by local groups, NGOs, and in some case government entities.
GRZ is an example of ecological identities “punching through” the fog of industrialization and war… potentially a part of societal breakthrough required for peace research (professor Kodama)
More than twenty years ago, in an article titled “The Greening of Peace Research” there was this quote…With these ideas in mind, I am hopeful to open dialog among my new friends and colleagues here in the IPRA Ecology & Peace commission about how we might think about more greening focused activities in red zone recovery and rebuilding. In other words, I believe that the injustices that are most acute in post-conflict and post-disaster contexts are often manifested in the inability of residents to express their urgent biophilia, or to act upon the restorative potential of topophilia. These fundamental human and nature connections are often the building blocks for dealing with grief, despair, and helplessness, and can lead to re-starting virtuous cycles of community restoration , optimism, recovery, and lasting peace. Yet people are often blocked, stymied or stalled from planting a community garden, or trees, or worrying about birds or wildlife until after the REAL work is done, the technical infrastructure repairs. This to me is misguided. Hopefully, with your help, ideas like greening in the red zone will gain traction where it matters most, within the entities responsible for stability, security, transition, and reconstruction.