Assessment and principles of environmentally sustainable food and agriculture systems

R Çakmakçı, MA Salık, S Çakmakçı - Agriculture, 2023 - mdpi.com
Feeding the world depends on protecting our valuable ecosystems and biodiversity.
Currently, increasing public awareness of the problems posed by the current industrialized …

The socio-cultural benefits of urban agriculture: a review of the literature

RT Ilieva, N Cohen, M Israel, K Specht, R Fox-Kämper… - Land, 2022 - mdpi.com
Despite extensive literature on the socio-cultural services of urban open spaces, the role of
food-producing spaces has not received sufficient attention. This hampers advocacy for …

Gardening can relieve human stress and boost nature connection during the COVID-19 pandemic

M Egerer, B Lin, J Kingsley, P Marsh… - Urban Forestry & Urban …, 2022 - Elsevier
The COVID-19 pandemic has severely disrupted social life. Gardens and yards have
seemingly risen as a lifeline during the pandemic. Here, we investigated the relationship …

[HTML][HTML] Differences in motivations and social impacts across urban agriculture types: Case studies in Europe and the US

CK Kirby, K Specht, R Fox-Kämper, JK Hawes… - Landscape and Urban …, 2021 - Elsevier
Urban agriculture is an increasingly popular approach to addressing negative social and
health effects of cities. Social benefits of urban agriculture include improved health and …

[HTML][HTML] Physically apart but socially connected: Lessons in social resilience from community gardening during the COVID-19 pandemic

N Joshi, W Wende - Landscape and Urban Planning, 2022 - Elsevier
Urban green spaces, like community gardens, received increased attention during the
COVID-19 pandemic. Drawing from an ethnographic study on participating in community …

Tourism and natural disaster management process: perception of tourism stakeholders in the case of Kumamoto earthquake in Japan

CS Chan, K Nozu, TOL Cheung - Current Issues in Tourism, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
Tourism has a reciprocal relationship with natural disasters. The study aims to investigate
the role of tourism as a strategy in the disaster phases based on (2001. Towards a …

Social capital and community disaster resilience: post-earthquake tourism recovery on Gili Trawangan, Indonesia

S Partelow - Sustainability science, 2021 - Springer
This study examines the hypothesis that social capital can be a foundation for community
disaster resilience with an analysis of empirical findings from the August 2018 earthquake …

COVID, resilience, and the built environment

JM Keenan - Environment Systems and Decisions, 2020 - Springer
This article provides a perspective on the reciprocal relationships between public and
private sector resilience planning activities and the ongoing COVID responses in the US …

[HTML][HTML] Rethinking the distribution of urban green spaces in Mexico City: Lessons from the COVID-19 outbreak

CM Huerta - Urban Forestry & Urban Greening, 2022 - Elsevier
The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed inequalities that are expected to widen if no action is
taken to support the most marginalized populations. One such inequality is the distribution of …

Experiences of gardening during the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic

J Kingsley, L Diekmann, MH Egerer, BB Lin, A Ossola… - Health & place, 2022 - Elsevier
Gardening has the potential to improve health and wellbeing, especially during crises. Using
an international survey of gardeners (n= 3743), this study aimed to understand everyday …