Greening in the red zone : disaster, resilience and community greening / Keith G. Tidball, Marianne E. Krasny, editors.

Dordrecht ; New York : Springer, [2014]

xxxi, 503 pages : colour illustrations ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part 1: Foundations -- 1. Introduction: Greening In the Red Zone / Keith G. Tidball and Marianne E. Krasny -- 2. Resilience and Transformation In the Red Zone / Keith G. Tidball and Marianne E. Krasny -- 3. A Daunting Challenge: Creating an Urban Park in an Impoverished Neighborhood of Port-au-Prince, Haiti / Michele Duvivier Pierre-Louis -- Part 2: Motives and Explanation -- 4. Urgent Biophilia: Human-Nature Interactions in Red Zone Recovery and Resilience / Keith G. Tidball -- 5. Sowing Seeds of Resilience: Community Gardening In A Post-Disaster Context / Heather A. Okvat and Alex J. Zautra -- 6. Turning Degraded Space into a Community Asset - The Soweto Mountain of Hope Greening Case / Soul Shava and Mandla Mentoor -- 7. The Role of Nature in Children's Resilience: Cognitive and Social Processes / Nancy M. Wells -- 8. Children's Engagement with the Natural World as a Ground for Healing / Louise Chawla 9. 8,000 Trees: a Refuge from Ruins / Suzanne Thompson -- 10. Topophilia, Biophilia and Greening in the Red Zone / Richard C. Stedman and Micah Ingalls -- 11. Urban Gardens: Pockets of Social-Ecological Memory / Stephen Barthel, John Parker, Carl Folke, and Johan Colding -- 12. Reconstructing Village Groves after a Typhoon in Korea / Eunju Lee -- 13. Nature Engagement to Foster Resilience in Military Communities / Marianne E. Krasny, Katherine Hess Pace, Keith G. Tidball, and Kenneth Helphand -- 14. Garden for Victory! The American Victory Garden Campaign of World War II / Laura J. Lawson -- 15. The Korean DMZ: From a Red Zone to a Deeper Shade of Green / 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 -- Part 3: Cases and Practices -- 18. Restoration of the Urban Forests of Tokyo and Hiroshima Following World War II / Sheauchi Cheng and Joe R. McBride -- 19. Valuing Urban Forest: Lessons to Learn from Hurricanes / R. Bruce Hull -- 20. Trees and Rebirth: Social-ecological Symbols and Rituals in the Resilience of Post-Katrina New Orleans / Keith G. Tidball -- 21. The Risks of Greening in the Red Zone: Creating Afghanistan's First National Park in the Midst of Conflict / Peter D. Smallwood -- 22. Destruction and Replanting of the Urban Forest of Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina / Igor Lacan and Joe R. McBride -- 23. The Re-Greening of the Grey: Some Practical Considerations for the Urban Forest / Sandra Dark -- 24. Trees and Tree Planting in Southern Madagascar: Sacredness and Remembrance / Maria Tengo and Jacob von Heland -- 25. Community-Based Memorials to September 11, 2001: Environmental Stewardship as Memory Work / Erika S. Svendsen and Lindsay K. Campbell -- 26. Six Ares of Land: Resilience of City Dwellers in Russia / Louiza Boukharaeva -- 27. Beyond the Bars: Landscapes for Health and Healing in Corrections / Amy L. Lindemuth -- 28. Conservation: the Catalyst for Peace in Northern Kenya / Ian Craig -- 29. 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 -- 30. 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 M. Winterbottom -- 31. Reforestation Activities at a Chadian Refugee Camp in Northern Cameroon / Elizabeth A. Moore -- 32. Growing Hope: How Urban Gardens are Empowering War-Affected Liberians and Harvesting a New Generation of City Farmers / Christina Holder -- 33. Cyprus: Greening the Dead Zone / Anna Grichting -- 34. - The Berlin Wall Trail: a Cycling and Hiking Route on the Traces of Berlin's East-West Division during the Cold War / Michael Cramer -- 35. Synthesis and Conclusions: Applying Greening in Red Zones / Keith G. Tidball, Elon D. Weinstein, and Marianne E. Krasny