Psychosocial outcomes as motivations for urban gardening: A cross-cultural comparison of Swiss and Chilean gardeners

Home, Robert; Vieli, Lorena

doi:10.1016/j.ufug.2020.126703

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“…Out of the six indicators validated in the Web-Delphi for built environment dimensions, the “Area of community gardens” indicator was the one with the lowest agreement. Home and Vieli [ 64 ] state that urban agriculture performed in community gardens can meet some of the basic nutrition needs of the urban population and potentially provide economic, social, and mental and wellbeing benefits. During the interviews, the advantage of including this indicator was clear (83% agreement rate) while in the Web-Delphi this indicator achieved a rate of agreement of 55%.…”

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Selecting Indicators to Monitor and Assess Environmental Health in a Portuguese Urban Setting: A Participatory Approach

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Vieira

Torres³

et al. 2020

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Environmental health (EH) is influenced by complex interactions between health and the built and natural environments, there being little research on its specificities in urban settings. The use of suitable indicators to monitor and assess EH is fundamental in informing evidence-based interventions at the local level. A participatory approach to selecting indicators to inform the monitoring and assessment of EH in Lisbon is herein considered. Evidence derived from a systematic review of literature and data from Lisbon and Portuguese databases were analyzed by 12 Portuguese experts in individual semi-structured interviews. The interviews aimed at identifying relevant indicators and important emerging issues in the Lisbon urban setting. The outputs from the interviews were validated by a two-round Web-Delphi process in which panelists (22 experts) from different areas of expertise expressed their views regarding the relevance of the indicators for the analysis of EH in urban settings. Seventeen indicators were validated in the Web-Delphi process. High participation achieved along this process supports the view that this participatory approach was useful for validation. Results from the adopted participatory approach point out gaps in the collection of noise and mobility indicators data and raise emerging issues on housing indicators that require further research. The results also suggest the need for local action to improve indicators and tools in order to help the monitorization of EH in urban contexts. The adopted participatory approach can be replicated for other Portuguese and European urban settings.

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Selecting Indicators to Monitor and Assess Environmental Health in a Portuguese Urban Setting: A Participatory Approach

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“…Regarding the special benefited groups, only 16 articles [27,28,31,33,34,36,[38][39][40][41][42][43][44][45][46][47] have recorded such specific benefited groups from particular urban agriculture practices, which include older adults, migrants, low-income people, disabled people, people with mental disorders, school children, cancer patients, and women (Table S1). However, the Health and emotional benefits were recorded more than twice as much in developed countries [17,26,27,36,[38][39][40]46,47,49,50,52,53,[56][57][58][59][60][61] compared to developing countries [29,59,[62][63][64][65][66] (Table 2). The top three health and emotional sub-categories recorded in developed countries are food nutrition and quality, connection with nature, physical activity, and mental relaxation.…”

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“…Recording of environmental education sub-categories has similar frequencies in both developed and developing countries (Figure 5c). There is no significant difference in recording economic benefits between developed [5,28,30,[32][33][34]36,38,39,[47][48][49]53,54,56,57,61,[69][70][71] and developing countries [9,12,21,22,31,[42][43][44]59,[62][63][64][65][66][67][68]72] (Table 2). However, a distinction can be observed among recordings of different sub-categories.…”

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“…The ecological benefit category also doesn't depict a significant difference in recording among developed and developing country studies and sub-categories (Table 2). Thirteen articles from developed countries [18,34,36,40,47,[49][50][51][53][54][55]59,73] and 11 from developing countries [9,21,22,29,59,[63][64][65]67,68] recorded ecological benefits. However, both groups record a significantly higher frequency in the land management sub-category (Figure 5d).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Practicing as a land management strategy in urban areas is one of the main ecological benefits of urban agriculture in many situations. In cities, agriculture can be used for landscape beautification [21,22,76], to enhance greenery [26,49,68], for urban restoration [59] and regeneration [55,77], to maintain public spaces [73] as well as to utilize urban vacant lands [12,53,84]. However, other ecological benefits also need to be studied in more detail, especially in developed countries, to integrate agriculture with urban planning in a sustainable manner.…”

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Multifunctionality of urban agriculture can support the resolve of many urban challenges. Therefore, it is vital to understand the contribution of academic studies on urban agriculture practices as scientific information. The present study followed a systematic literature review based on the PRISMA method. Finally, 54 identified articles were analyzed. The review study mainly examined the contribution of academic literature on urban agriculture under four dimensions: the socio-economic context of the country, type of agriculture model, opportunities, and challenges. The results revealed the focus of academic literature on urban agriculture to show favoritism toward developed countries’ community gardens. Moreover, the leading academic focus on this discipline identifies multifunctionality. People’s motivations in developed countries tend to favor social, health-related, and educational benefits of urban agriculture; however, in developing countries, urban agriculture is more related to economic and ecological needs. Challenges for urban agriculture are also different among developed and developing countries. Nevertheless, existing academic studies have given comparatively less attention to identifying challenges, benefit groups of urban agriculture, and government support. Since urban agriculture is highly reliant on local factors, studying more about opportunities and challenges for urban agriculture under different socio-economic contexts and different agriculture models could be more beneficial to connect farming practices in cities with urban planning. Therefore, to make an adequate academic contribution to urban sustainability, future urban agriculture studies need to be more holistic.

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Psychosocial outcomes as motivations for urban gardening: A cross-cultural comparison of Swiss and Chilean gardeners

Cited by 25 publications

References 30 publications

Selecting Indicators to Monitor and Assess Environmental Health in a Portuguese Urban Setting: A Participatory Approach

Selecting Indicators to Monitor and Assess Environmental Health in a Portuguese Urban Setting: A Participatory Approach

Promoting Urban Agriculture and Its Opportunities and Challenges—A Global Review

COVID‐19 gardening could herald a greener, healthier future

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