Greening in the Red Zone- Disaster, Resilience, and Community
Greening
Table of Contents
Front Matter
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
List of Contributors
Foreword- Lance Gunderson
Preface and Acknowledgments1
Section 1- Foundations
1. Introduction: Greening in the Red Zone
Keith G. Tidball & Marianne E. Krasny
2. Social-ecological System Resilience in Red Zones: A Role for Greening
Keith G. Tidball & Marianne Krasny
3. GRZ Vignette* One- An urban park in earthquake stricken Port au Prince
Michèle Pierre-Louis
Section 2- Motives and Explanation
4. Urgent Biophilia
Keith G. Tidball
5. Sowing Seeds of Resilience: Community Gardening in a Post-Disaster Context
Heather Okvat and Alex Zautra
6. GRZ Vignette Two- Transforming Degraded Space into a Community Asset – The
Soweto Mountain of Hope
Soul Shava and Mandla Mentoor
7. The Role of Nature in Children's Resilience: Cognitive and Social Processes
Nancy Wells
8. Children’s Engagement with the Natural World as a Ground for Healing
Louise Chawla
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GRZ Vignettes are short, descriptive two page examples of Greening in the Red Zone with pictures.
9. GRZ Vignette Three- 8,000 Trees- A Refuge From Ruins in Afghanistan
Suzanne Thompson
10. Topophilia, Biophilia and Greening in the Red Zone
Richard Stedman and Micah Ingalls
11. Urban Gardens: Pockets of Social-Ecological Memory
Stephan Barthel, John Parker, Carl Folke, and Johan Colding
12. GRZ Vignette Four- Reconstructing village groves after a typhoon in Korea
Eunju Lee
13. Nature Engagement to Foster Resilience in Military Communities
Marianne Krasny, Katherine Hess Pace, Keith G. Tidball, and Kenneth Helphand
14. Garden for Victory! The American Victory Garden Campaign of World War II
Laura Lawson
15. GRZ Vignette Five- The Korean DMZ: from Red Zone to Green Zone
Anna Grichting and Kwi Gon Kim
16. Green Zones from Above and Below: A Retrospective and Cautionary Tale
Charles Geisler
17. Reflections on Defiant Gardens: Making Gardens in Wartime
Kenneth Helphand
Section 3- Cases & Practices
18. Valuing Urban Forest: Lessons to Learn from Hurricanes
R. Bruce Hull
19. Trees, Rebirth and Resilience: Community-led Reforestation and Recovery in Post-Katrina
New Orleans
Keith G. Tidball
20. GRZ Vignette Six- The Return of the Mesopotamian Marshlands and Marsh Arabs: Red
Zone Recovery in Iraq
Azzam Alwash and Peter Schoonmaker
21. Destruction and Replanting of the urban forest of Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Igor Laćan and McBride
22. The Re-greening of the Grey: Some Practical Considerations for the Urban Forest
Sandra Dark
23. GRZ Vignette Seven- Trees and Tree Planting in Southern Madagascar: Sacredness and
Remembrance
Maria Tengö and Jacob von Heland
24. Community-based memorials to September 11, 2001: Environmental stewardship as
memory work
Erika S. Svendsen and Lindsay K. Campbell
25. GRZ Vignette Eight- Six Ares of Land for the Resilience of Urban Families in PostSoviet Russia
Louiza Boukharaeva
26. Beyond the Bars: Landscapes for Health and Healing in Corrections
Amy L. Lindemuth
27. GRZ Vignette Nine- Wildlife: The Catalyst for Peace in Northern Kenya
Ian Craig
28. Sustainability-oriented social learning in multi-cultural urban areas: The case of the
Rotterdam Environmental Centre
Arjen E.J. Wals and Marlon E. van der Waal
29. Developing a Safe, Nurturing and Therapeutic Environment for the Families of the
Garbage Pickers in Guatemala and for Disabled Children in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Daniel Winterbottom
30. GRZ Vignette Ten- Reforestation Activities at a Chadian Refugee Camp in Northern
Cameroon
Elizabeth A. Moore
31. Growing Hope: How Urban Gardens are Empowering War-Affected Liberians and
Harvesting a New Generation of City Farmers
Christina Holder
32. Cyprus. Greening the Dead Zone.
Anna Grichting
33. GRZ Vignette Eleven- The Berlin Wall Trail - a cycling and hiking route on the traces of
Berlin's Cold War Divide
Michael Cramer
34. Synthesis and Conclusions: Applying Greening in Red Zones
Keith Tidball, Marianne Krasny, and Elon Weinstein
Combined Index (Name and Subject)