Is there a demand for collective urban gardens? Needs and motivations of potential gardeners in Belgrade

Environmental principles for planting of greenery in settlements of Baikal Siberia

“…The possession of dacha for the population of Siberia and, in general, Russia, is a socio-cultural necessity, which is important from the point of view of psychological and emotional comfort, as well as a subsidiary farm for obtaining agricultural products. A similar request was identified among the population of other countries, for example, Serbia [14].…”

“…The experience of using arboreal plants of different geographical origin and differentiation of species composition for ecologically functional groups of planting 210, 09002 (2020) E3S Web of Conferences ITSE-2020 https://doi.org/10.1051/e3sconf/202021009002 objects, the aspects of correct choice of trees [11], including representatives of specific systematic groups [12], as well as the studies on the perception and preference of green infrastructure objects [13], the demand for collective urban gardens [14], the importance of urban green spaces in maintaining physical activity [15], social interaction and, in general, comfortable emotional state of population [16] were analyzed.…”

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

“…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 most abundant recorded special groups are elderly people, low-income people, and migrants.…”

“…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.…”

“…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.…”