Strategic gardens and gardening: Inviting a widened perspective on the values of private green space

Dewaelheyns, Valerie; Jakobsson, Anna; Saltzman, Katarina

doi:10.1016/j.ufug.2017.12.009

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“…These private green spaces provide similar benefits to public green spaces such as social cohesion, mental health and well-being, physical health, maintaining biodiversity, and cooling air (and improvement of its quality), as well as socioeconomic benefits (Farahani et al, 2018). Therefore, the findings are considered of great value not only for confirming the potential of private green spaces mentioned by previous studies (Gaston et al, 2005;Smith et al, 2005;Colding et al, 2006;Balooni et al, 2014;Dewaelheyns et al, 2018) but also for keeping the hope alive for an environmental upgrading intervention in the deprived community of informal settlements. The private green spaces map generated in this study could be used by the Kabul Municipality and other relevant national and international departments to implement a programme to establish and upgrade urban green spaces that would fulfil the environmental needs of the residents of informal settlements, especially women.…”

Section: Fig 6: Distribution Of Private Green Spaces In the Informal Settlements Of Kabul City Table 3: Details On The Police Districtssupporting

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Mapping Kabul’s Private Urban Green Spaces Using Geographic Information System-Supervised Classification

Hussainzad

Yusof

Maruthaveeran

2020

Journal of Landscape Ecology

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Private green spaces are considered an important part of urban greenery. However, the extent of private green spaces in an informal city like Kabul is unknown. To this end, this study has mapped out the private green spaces in the informal settlements of Kabul city. A Geographic Information System (GIS)-supervised image classification technique was used to identify these private green spaces in three of the 22 police districts (PDs) in the city. Briefly, the classification consisted of defining training samples, extraction of signature and classification of the imagery. As a result, 330.3 hectares were identified as private green spaces, which made up 12.3 % of the total area of informal settlements in these three districts. With 217.1 hectares, PD7 had the largest area of private green spaces among the three police districts, contributing to 65.7 % of the overall area of private green spaces, followed by PD8 (21.3 %) and PD16 (13 %). In future, the map generated in this study could be used to monitor, manage and conserve the existing urban greenery in the face of private green spaces. The results could also be utilised by the Kabul Municipality and other relevant departments to implement an upgrading programme in the informal settlements of Kabul city, which would lead to fulfilling the environmental needs of the residents.

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Section: Fig 6: Distribution Of Private Green Spaces In the Informal Settlements Of Kabul City Table 3: Details On The Police Districtssupporting

confidence: 57%

Mapping Kabul’s Private Urban Green Spaces Using Geographic Information System-Supervised Classification

Hussainzad

Yusof

Maruthaveeran

2020

Journal of Landscape Ecology

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“…It is over five times more than Warsaw's public parks and squares (Sikorski et al, 2021). For comparison, the garden area in Stockholm is 16%, and in UK cities 22-27% (Colding et al, 2006;Dewaelheyns et al, 2018).…”

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confidence: 99%

IALE 2022 European Landscape Ecology Congress : book of abstracts

Wolski¹,

Regulska²,

Affek³

2022

IALE 2022 European Landscape Ecology Congress : Book of Abstracts

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According to the Declaration of Consent to Publication and Assignation of Copyright (https://www.iale2022.eu/programme/call-abstracts.html) all Authors collectively accept and confirm that submission of the abstracts to the IALE 2022 Congress constitutes their consent to publication in the Book of Abstracts. Each Author warrants and represents that he/she is the sole owner or has the rights of all the information and content provided. The publication of the abstract does not infringe any third party rights including, but not limited to, intellectual property rights. Each Author grants the Editors (Congress organisers) a royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable nonexclusive license to use, reproduce, publish, translate, distribute, and display the content.

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“…First insights into the socio‐cultural dimensions connected to soil cultivation in the Global North are also provided by a limited number of studies in the context of urban agriculture and urban gardening. Even though these studies do not necessarily focus on subsistence practices, as urban gardens are created for various reasons, for instance food production (Aptekar & Myers, 2020; Barthel & Isendahl, 2013; Pourias et al., 2016), aesthetic purposes (Lindemann‐Matthies & Marty, 2013), recreation (Bhatti & Church, 2000; Langemeyer et al., 2016), or civic engagement (Krasny & Tidball, 2009), some address soils and include socio‐cultural aspects of soil cultivation (Dewaelheyns et al., 2013, 2014, 2018; Engel‐Di Mauro, 2019; Kim et al., 2014; Scheromm, 2015; Teuber et al., 2019). They do not use the Cosmos–Corpus–Praxis complex, though.…”

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Why do we need interdisciplinary cooperation with anthropologists and archaeologists in soil science?

Teuber

Bartelheim

Hardenberg

et al. 2022

J. Plant Nutr. Soil Sci.

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Looking at soils from the perspective of an environmental scientist or agronomist might neglect various dimensions of valuation that can be attributed to soils. Especially social and cultural connoted values including ecosystem services cannot always be measured in terms of scientific values or classified as soil types or soil qualities in a modern, economic way. Even though soils are a fact and have been present on the Earth's surface and used by people, at least for food production, at different times and in different cultures, the ways of dealing with soils and the valuations of soils are extremely diverse. Researchers in anthropology, archaeology, and agriculture, for example, are investigating different perspectives like soils as common good or as private property. This concerns not only different knowledge orders about soils, but also beliefs, techniques, foodways, practices, and power relations concerning soils and cereal cultivation. Based on the example of agriculture with a focus on cereal cultivation, we argue that there is still a great need for interdisciplinarity between the sciences and humanities. However, there is also a need to distinguish and explain between fundamental interdisciplinary research and application of findings in a socio‐economic context. It is necessary to understand different knowledge orders and valuations in time or space and to reevaluate today's perspectives on soils and agriculture for facing modern problems such as soil degradation, erosion, salinization, and an overall loss of soil fertility.

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Strategic gardens and gardening: Inviting a widened perspective on the values of private green space

Cited by 7 publications

References 27 publications

Mapping Kabul’s Private Urban Green Spaces Using Geographic Information System-Supervised Classification

Mapping Kabul’s Private Urban Green Spaces Using Geographic Information System-Supervised Classification

IALE 2022 European Landscape Ecology Congress : book of abstracts

Why do we need interdisciplinary cooperation with anthropologists and archaeologists in soil science?

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