Suburban life and the boundaries of nature: resilience and rupture in Australian backyard gardens

Head, Lesley; Muir, Pat

doi:10.1111/j.1475-5661.2006.00228.x

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“…One such management goal is the creation of new parks using IGS where size and characteristics are suitable. These results are in line with earlier research that found Japanese respondents are overall hesitant to embrace the concept of urban wilderness, a concept that has figured prominently in work on IGS from Europe, North America and Australia [27,28,[39][40][41][42][43][44][45][46][47][48][49][50]. Yet this does not imply that residents do not perceive the value of IGS as a different kind of urban green space.…”

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Informal Urban Green Space: Residents’ Perception, Use, and Management Preferences across Four Major Japanese Shrinking Cities

Rupprecht

2017

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Urban residents' health depends on green infrastructure to cope with climate change. Shrinking cities could utilize vacant land to provide more green space, but declining tax revenues preclude new park development-a situation pronounced in Japan, where some cities are projected to shrink by over ten percent, but lack green space. Could informal urban green spaces (IGS; vacant lots, street verges, brownfields etc.) supplement parks in shrinking cities? This study analyzes residents' perception, use, and management preferences (management goals, approaches to participatory management, willingness to participate) for IGS using a large, representative online survey (n = 1000) across four major shrinking Japanese cities: Sapporo, Nagano, Kyoto and Kitakyushu. Results show that residents saw IGS as a common element of the urban landscape and their daily lives, but their evaluation was mixed. Recreation and urban agriculture were preferred to redevelopment and non-management. For participative management, residents saw a need for the city administration to mediate usage and liability, and expected an improved appearance, but emphasized the need for financial and non-financial support. A small but significant minority (~10%) were willing to participate in management activities. On this basis, eight principles for participatory informal green space planning are proposed.

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Informal Urban Green Space: Residents’ Perception, Use, and Management Preferences across Four Major Japanese Shrinking Cities

Rupprecht

2017

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“…In Australia, preference for native plants varied considerably with some householders strongly disliking native plants (Kendal et al 2012). Conservation attitudes tend to be associated with a preference for native plants in gardens (Head andMuir 2006, Zagorski et al 2004), however the householders in our study showed only a weak positive association between proenvironmental orientation and native species richness (van Heezik et al 2013). http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol19/iss4/art17/ In another southern temperate city in New Zealand, Stewart et al (2009) found native trees and shrubs were common in private woodland gardens, particularly in the lower height categories, and suggested sites such as these were "hotspots" of native woody diversity.…”

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Native and exotic woody vegetation communities in domestic gardens in relation to social and environmental factors

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Drivers of garden diversity and structure are complex, reflecting the diversity of social, cultural, and socioeconomic characteristics of the householders who manage their gardens, as well as their predecessors. Here we investigate the woodiness of gardens, and focus on (1) the prevalence of native versus exotic woody plants and (2) the influence of characteristics of garden owners, the gardens, and their proximity to neighborhood green spaces to identify the degree to which these factors explain patterns in native and exotic woody species communities in entire (back and front) gardens in southern temperate New Zealand. We found few consistent patterns in structure in woody species community composition. Outlying gardens were characterized by low species richness and abundance. Thirty-seven species commonly occurred across most gardens: most of these were exotic. Twelve native species were common throughout most gardens. There was significant but weak matching to social and environmental variables: vegetated area, species knowledge, and education explained pattern in native communities, whereas vegetated area, species knowledge, and householder age explained variation in exotic communities. Native trees > 5 m tall occurred in only 58% of gardens. Tall tree density was 10/ha, and 29% of gardens lacked any trees > 5 m. Tree presence was weakly (positively) associated with extent and proximity of neighborhood green space. We suggest that the legacy of previous owners' gardening practices is important to consider when identifying drivers of garden plant community structure.

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“…For example, five U.S.-based urban foraging studies relied on in-depth interviewing techniques, and three included time spent in direct participant-observation of foraging [12]. Ethnographic methods have been shown to be especially effective in studying everyday interactions between people and nature [14,43] and obtaining an "insider's view" of foraging practices [25].…”

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Urban Foraging in Berlin: People, Plants and Practices within the Metropolitan Green Infrastructure

2018

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Gathering wild plants in cities (urban foraging) is likely an important, but understudied human-nature interaction globally. As large European cities are critically understudied in this regard, we performed in-depth ethnography-based interviews in Berlin, Germany, to shed light on the cultural background of foragers, their motivations and which plants and fungi are gathered for which purposes. Results demonstrate multiple uses of 125 taxa, mostly frequently-occurring species but also some Red List species, from a range of formal and informal greenspace types. Both native and non-native species were gathered, with significant differences in use patterns. Use for food was most common, followed by medicinal uses, and personal enjoyment was a frequent motivation, indicating that urban foraging combines provisioning and cultural ecosystem services. Familial and childhood foraging exposure were common, pointing to influences of early-in-life exposure on later-in-life activities and transgenerational aspects of the practice. Results further suggest legacy effects from the post-war and communist eras on foraging knowledge. Although non-commercial foraging is allowed in Berlin, over-harvesting was not evident. Interviews indicate that stewardship of urban biodiversity is common among foragers. Results thus suggest considering urban foraging as a promising vehicle for linking humans with nature when developing a biodiverse urban green infrastructure.

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Suburban life and the boundaries of nature: resilience and rupture in Australian backyard gardens

Cited by 139 publications

References 50 publications

Informal Urban Green Space: Residents’ Perception, Use, and Management Preferences across Four Major Japanese Shrinking Cities

Informal Urban Green Space: Residents’ Perception, Use, and Management Preferences across Four Major Japanese Shrinking Cities

Native and exotic woody vegetation communities in domestic gardens in relation to social and environmental factors

Urban Foraging in Berlin: People, Plants and Practices within the Metropolitan Green Infrastructure

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