Community Gardens as Contexts for Science, Stewardship, and Civic Action Learning

Krasny, Marianne E.; Tidball, Keith G.

doi:10.15365/cate.2182009

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“…These evolving ''civic ecology'' practices (Tidball and Krasny 2007), which are partly supported by universities and the City of New Orleans, not only seem to empower their participants, build social capital and sense of place, but also play a role in generating ecosystem services such as improved mitigation of flooding, better air quality, cooling houses (with lower energy consumption), and re-introducing habitats, and landscape ecological functions. They furthermore represent a possibility for collaborative ecosystem management as they forge social-ecological feedbacks through localized learning of ecosystem dynamics (Krasny and Tidball 2009;Barthel et al 2010;Ernstson et al 2010), and could be key collective agents in nurturing a cultural change in how residents enact the city as a culture-nature space.…”

Section: Fourth Argument: Harnessing Urban Innovation Across Scalesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…This involves stakeholders like urban planners and housing companies, but also housing, squatter and urban social movements, along with those influencing and/or have knowledge about urban ecological processes. The latter group importantly includes, apart from conservation managers, also user groups engaged in local level socialecological interactions such as urban community gardening, farming, and forestry that simultaneously meet social needs while improving ecosystem function (Stanvliet et al 2004;Barthel et al 2005;Borgström et al 2006;Colding et al 2006;Andersson et al 2007;Tidball and Krasny 2007;Krasny and Tidball 2009;Barthel et al 2010;Ernstson et al 2010). The second scale, resilience of cities, involves a broader category of stakeholders, but particularly those associated not only with technical networks like water, electricity, sewage, waste disposal, and telecommunications, but also with agriculture, mining and other broader interests in society.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Urban Transitions: On Urban Resilience and Human-Dominated Ecosystems

Ernstson

Leeuw

Redman

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Urbanization is a global multidimensional process paired with increasing uncertainty due to climate change, migration of people, and changes in the capacity to sustain ecosystem services. This article lays a foundation for discussing transitions in urban governance, which enable cities to navigate change, build capacity to withstand shocks, and use experimentation and innovation in face of uncertainty. Using the three concrete case citiesNew Orleans, Cape Town, and Phoenix-the article analyzes thresholds and cross-scale interactions, and expands the scale at which urban resilience has been discussed by integrating the idea from geography that cities form part of ''system of cities'' (i.e., they cannot be seen as single entities). Based on this, the article argues that urban governance need to harness social networks of urban innovation to sustain ecosystem services, while nurturing discourses that situate the city as part of regional ecosystems. The article broadens the discussion on urban resilience while challenging resilience theory when addressing human-dominated ecosystems. Practical examples of harnessing urban innovation are presented, paired with an agenda for research and policy.

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Section: Fourth Argument: Harnessing Urban Innovation Across Scalesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Urban Transitions: On Urban Resilience and Human-Dominated Ecosystems

Ernstson

Leeuw

Redman

et al. 2010

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“…For example, Strife (2010) suggests a 'humanizing' EE discourse that highlights how EE benefits humans and others describing how urban community-based organizations are increasingly using local environmental learning and stewardship to advance youth and community development (Krasny and Tidball 2009b;Schusler et al 2009;Krasny and Roth 2010;Kudryavtsev and Krasny under review). Price, Simmons, and Krasny (2014) suggest the new subfield of 'community EE', encompassing EE for health and well-being in stressed communities.…”

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Practitioners’ perspectives on the purpose of environmental education

Fraser

Gupta

Krasny

2014

Environmental Education Research

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Since the 1980s, scholars have suggested that environmental education (EE) has a 'definitional problem' represented by a multiplicity of perspectives that have critically impacted its discourse, practices, and outcomes. This study sought to investigate how North American EE practitioners from backgrounds ranging from formal and non-formal institutions think about their work. We focused on folk narratives and emerging urban environmental concerns of community education rather than reliance on academic opinion alone. Using Q methodology, the study identified five distinct perspectives that appear to represent different ways of prioritizing EE outcomes. All five perspectives were concerned with promoting sustainable living and improved human well-being, but the nuances suggest that an individual who adheres strongly to one may feel someone holding a contrasting perspective is working at cross-purposes. The authors suggest that understanding these perspectives can help reduce misunderstanding within the EE field.

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“…Despite such locally derived benefits from urban ecosystems, the authors of the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (2005) chose largely to ignore the urban landscape and cities are generally seen as the recipients rather than producers of ecosystem services (Krasny and Tidball, 2015). Urban areas can however harbour biodiverse habitats (Smith et al, 2006;Davies et al, 2009;Goddard et al, 2010;Cameron et al, 2012) and, through forms of social-ecological innovation and civic engagement, provide ecosystem services in the form of pollination (Strauss, 2009), food production (Saldivar and Krasny, 2004;Lawson, 2005) and education (Krasny and Tidball, 2009). …”

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Site-specific factors in the production of local urban ecosystem services: A case study of community-managed green space

Dennis

James

2016

Ecosystem Services

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1 Site-specific factors in the production of local urban ecosystem services: a case study of community-managed green space. AbstractPockets of green space in cities can provide important ecosystem services for urban residents. As naturalistic spaces in urban areas become increasingly sparse, communities are beginning to co-manage existing incidental pockets of land towards the creation of communal natural resources. Such green commons can be productive in terms of ecosystem services through targeted management such as in the case of urban agriculture. Although some work has been done to explore the motives behind and potential benefits of informal green space management, further research is required to understand those characteristics of site management and community input which contribute to the enhancement of sitespecific ecosystem service production. A case study of ten examples of community-managed green space was undertaken to evaluate the contributory factors relating to site character and management which influenced productivity as defined by the cumulative provision of four urban-relevant ecosystem services. The analysis revealed that the level of community involvement, measured as intensity of volunteer hours, was highly instrumental in the productivity of sites. Food production also proved to be catalytic for the enhancement of ecosystem services whereas extent of vegetative cover and increasing site size were, counter-intuitively, detrimental to overall site productivity. The study therefore supports the promotion of participatory approaches to the management of ecosystems services in urban areas, particularly those which take small-scale urban agriculture as a primary practice.

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Community Gardens as Contexts for Science, Stewardship, and Civic Action Learning

Cited by 149 publications

References 43 publications

Urban Transitions: On Urban Resilience and Human-Dominated Ecosystems

Urban Transitions: On Urban Resilience and Human-Dominated Ecosystems

Practitioners’ perspectives on the purpose of environmental education

Site-specific factors in the production of local urban ecosystem services: A case study of community-managed green space

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