Predicting and understanding home garden water use

Syme, Geoffrey J.; Shao, Quanxi; Po, Murni; Campbell, Eddy

doi:10.1016/j.landurbplan.2003.08.002

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“…According to the International Carwash Association (Syme et al 2004) and, to our knowledge, there is no refereed research focussing on car-washing behaviours, one aim of this study was to document the prevalence of different gardening and car-washing water use behaviours in a drought-prone community.…”

Section: Social Capital and The Water Crisismentioning

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The Impact of Social Capital on Residential Water-Affecting Behaviors in a Drought-Prone Australian Community

Miller

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2008

Society & Natural Resources

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Australians report the second highest rate of water consumption in the industrialised world, despite the continent's generally dry conditions. With researchers suggesting that fostering social capital may encourage people to work together on environmental and sustainable initiatives, this article explores whether social capital, environmental responsibility, and socio-demographic lifestyle factors might predict environmentally-friendly or unfriendly home water use behaviours, specifically gardening and

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Section: Social Capital and The Water Crisismentioning

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The Impact of Social Capital on Residential Water-Affecting Behaviors in a Drought-Prone Australian Community

Miller

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2008

Society & Natural Resources

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“…In this line, a study on home gardens in Australia assessed the variables affecting water consumption in gardens, underlining the role of lifestyle and garden management practices [46]. However, no study have quantified the environmental impacts of urban food production in home gardens-thereby considering all the external inputs and the resulting productivity, unlike other typologies of UA (e.g., rooftop agriculture, community gardening, aquaponics) [47][48][49][50][51][52][53][54][55].…”

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Eco-Efficiency Assessment and Food Security Potential of Home Gardening: A Case Study in Padua, Italy

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Abstract:In the expanding urban agriculture phenomenon in Europe, home gardens are a traditional form that have kept agriculture within cities, even becoming crucial in certain historical periods (e.g., war periods). However, horticultural practices in home gardens can also have negative consequences. The goal of this paper is to assess the eco-efficiency of home gardens as a type of urban agriculture. To do so, a case study in Padua (Italy) was evaluated following life cycle assessment and life cycle costing methods. A home garden of 30.6 m 2 and 21 crop cycles were evaluated. The functional unit of the assessment was 1 kg of harvested fresh vegetable at the consumption point, and the ReCiPe method was employed for impact assessment. Environmental assessment indicated that organic fertilization, use of tap water, mineral fertilization and pesticides were the most contributing elements of the entire life cycle. Furthermore, the relevance of garden design and crop selection was a determinant in the eco-efficiency results. The assessed home garden could satisfy the food requirements of between 1 and 2 members of the household. Crop management and design recommendations are provided to improve eco-efficiency and food security potential of home gardens.

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“…For water, installation of water-conserving devices and appliances, including showerheads, toilets, and clothes washers, reduces household water usage in the first few years of adoption (Lee et al 2011). Landscaping and irrigation improvements decrease water usage outside the buiding (e.g., Syme et al 2004, Haley et al 2007). In all of these studies, energy and water systems are treated separately.…”

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Resilient by design: the case for increasing resilience of buildings and their linked food-energy-water systems

Tien

2018

Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene

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The resilience of buildings and food, energy, and water systems (FEWS) to natural or manmade disruptions are closely linked. The resilience of a building goes beyond the safety of its structural elements and must include the resilience of its supporting systems and the services they supply. The resilience of FEWS, in turn, can increase through design elements of a building that affect generation and storage of FEW resources. In this commentary, I discuss increasing the resilience of buildings and their linked FEWS-improving their resistance, absorption, restoration, and adaptive capacities-through new integrated systems design practices. I begin with a discussion of the current state of building design at the FEW nexus. I then use the prior establishment and current use of sustainability design objectives as an analogue to developing and implementing resilience design objectives. I review progress and limitations of specific drivers for increasing resilient design practices, including economic incentives, regulations, extralegal programs and initiatives, and societal incentives. My recommendations for leveraging these drivers to increase resilient design include: for economic incentives, quantify the costs and benefits to make the business case for resilience; for formal regulations, specify increased building requirements with performance-based resilience objectives; for extralegal initiatves, integrate these resilience objectives with existing certification programs and award designs that address FEWS as an integrated network rather than as disparate systems; and for societal incentives, demonstrate public benefit to shift societal perceptions of resilience. Together, these actions will motivate the design of more resilient building and FEW systems to increase their longevity, performance, and robustness. Keywords:Resilience; buildings; food-energy-water systems (FEWS); design objectives; integrated systems; performance-based design; design practices and incentives School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, US itien@ce.gatech.edu Introduction Food, energy, and water systems (FEWS) are essential for the functioning, safety, and security of society. They provide critical resources and services for the population of a community. They are also characterized by interconnections and interdependencies, which can both support the performance of these systems, e.g., if outputs from one system can be leveraged for use in multiple systems; or expose the systems to additional vulnerabilities, e.g., if failures in one system cascade into losses for connected systems.Buildings are also critical to daily life. We live the majority of our lives in buildings, with Americans spending on average 87% of their time in enclosed buildings (Klepeis et al. 2001). Buildings and FEWS are inextricably linked, particularly for energy and water systems. Buildings serve as the final distribution points for most municipal energy and water systems. Once energy and water resources are generated...

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Predicting and understanding home garden water use

Cited by 168 publications

References 17 publications

The Impact of Social Capital on Residential Water-Affecting Behaviors in a Drought-Prone Australian Community

The Impact of Social Capital on Residential Water-Affecting Behaviors in a Drought-Prone Australian Community

Eco-Efficiency Assessment and Food Security Potential of Home Gardening: A Case Study in Padua, Italy

Resilient by design: the case for increasing resilience of buildings and their linked food-energy-water systems

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