Soldiers in the garden: managing the US military training landscape

Rabung, Emily; Toman, Eric

doi:10.1080/01426397.2022.2053081

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“…This may seem to conflict with MSVMs' desire for a protected environment, but an enclosed space with fenced boundaries can also have open lines of sight. An understanding of the MSVM's thought process, training, and prospect-refuge theory could offer some explanation [25,50]. Military members have been taught to read a landscape during their training and determine if there could possibly be a threat within the area they occupy [25].…”

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“…An understanding of the MSVM's thought process, training, and prospect-refuge theory could offer some explanation [25,50]. Military members have been taught to read a landscape during their training and determine if there could possibly be a threat within the area they occupy [25]. MSVMs' choice of the prospective view may indicate MSVMs are not comfortable with seeing enclosed spots because of what could possibly be within the enclosed area [17,25].…”

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confidence: 99%

“…For some, the natural beauty of a landscape provides a sense of calm and respite from the stresses of military life. For others, the harsh and unforgiving nature of an outdoor landscape can be a constant reminder of the dangers they faced and the sacrifices they made during their military service [25,26]. MSVMs were trained to look at an outdoor landscape and determine possible dangers and/or places of cover.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Few studies have been conducted on the concept of creating gardens for targeted populations, but numerous studies explored how different populations perceived landscapes [21][22][23]27,28]. Overall, the relationship between MSVMs and outdoor landscapes is complex and multifaceted, and it is an important aspect of MSVMs' overall experience in and outside of the military [17,25,29].…”

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Evaluation of Military Service Member Preferences of Landscape Design Elements in Therapeutic Gardens

Thomas,

Monsur,

Lindquist

et al. 2024

Land

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Military service members (MSVMs) suffer from mental and physical health ailments upon returning home from enlistment. Due to the enormity of these different and complex ailments, many unique therapeutic methods, like therapeutic gardens, have been utilized on MSVM populations to improve their overall wellbeing. Therapeutic gardens are built following a set of guidelines meant to serve general populations instead of target populations. There has been little research on the preferences of landscape design elements in therapeutic gardens by MSVMs. To determine if landscape design elements can be optimized for therapeutic gardens that serve MSVMs, a series of questions with pictures pertaining to preferences were created in an online survey that was released to civilians on social media and MSVMs through U.S. military organizations (N = 366, 90.6% completed). The average respondents were male, Caucasian, and 25–35 years old. The majority of MSVM respondents were or had enlisted in the Army branch, and were currently active duty, or honorably discharged. MSVMs and civilians had overall similar preferences of utilities and garden elements. While commonalities were found among the two respondent groups, with a preference for clear walkways, lighting wild and natural views, there were differences. In contrast to civilians, MSVMs also overwhelmingly preferred fences and gates, and the creation of privacy and prospect views instead of refuge views. Results indicate that an increased line-of-sight in fenced-in areas may make MSVMs more comfortable in therapeutic garden settings. These differences may assist urban planners and landscapers in the building of green spaces tailored to target populations like MSVMs and to illustrate the importance of building inclusive spaces for populations of concern.

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Section: Military Service Members Interactions With Outdoor Landscapesmentioning

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Evaluation of Military Service Member Preferences of Landscape Design Elements in Therapeutic Gardens

Thomas,

Monsur,

Lindquist

et al. 2024

Land

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“…Bauch, 2015; Bolland, 2015; Doel, 2019; Ebbensgaard, 2017; Rich, 2017; Rush-Cooper, 2020; Nordström, 2017; Wylie and Webster, 2019), agenda setting military and nuclear landscape work (e.g. Rabung and Toman, 2022; Pitkanen and Farish, 2018; Woodward, 2013), and research in post-industrial and post-World War II landscapes (e.g. Humphris and Rauws, 2021; Braae et al, 2021; Van der Schriek, 2020).…”

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Reimagining landscape: Materiality, decoloniality, and creativity

Mason,

Riding

2023

Progress in Human Geography

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Geographers have been engaging with landscape since the beginning of the modern discipline of geography. A series of concurrent turns have taken place in human geography in recent years that are influencing the ways in which geographers approach landscape. We take forward new material, decolonial, and creative shifts in the discipline to reimagine landscape. Landscape is a geographical concept that has historically excluded a range of other voices and perspectives. To build a radically inclusive agenda for landscape research in geography, we put forward a generative conceptualisation of landscape that brings together (i) materiality; (ii) decoloniality; and (iii) creativity.

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