Springer Greening in the Red Zone: Disaster, Resilience and Community Greening

Creation and access to green spaces promotes individual human health, especially in therapeutic contexts among those suffering traumatic events. But what of the role of access to green space and the act of creating and caring for such places in promoting social health and well-being? Greening in the Red Zone asserts that creation and access to green spaces confers resilience and recovery in systems disrupted by violent conflict or disaster. This edited volume provides evidence for this assertion through cases and examples. The contributors to this volume use a variety of research and policy frameworks to explore how creation and access to green spaces in extreme situations might contribute to resistance, recovery, and resilience of social-ecological systems. Book Description List of Contributors Foreword- Lance Gunderson Preface and Acknowledgments Section 1- Foundations 1.      Introduction: Greening in the Red Zone 2.      Resilient Green: the role of greening in social-ecological system resilience in red zones   3.      GRZ Vignette* One- An urban park in earthquake stricken Port au Prince Section 2- Motives and Explanation 4.      Urgent Biophilia 5.      Sowing Seeds of Resilience: Community Gardening in a Post-Disaster Context 6.      GRZ Vignette Two- Transforming Degraded Space into a Community Asset – The Soweto Mountain of Hope 7.      The Role of Nature in Children's Resilience: Cognitive and Social Processes 8.      Children’s Engagement with the Natural World as a Ground for Healing 9.      GRZ Vignette Three- 8,000 Trees- A Refuge From Ruins in Afghanistan 10.  Topophilia, Biophilia and Greening in the Red Zone 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 13.  Nature Engagement to Foster Resilience in Military Communities 14.  Garden for Victory! The American Victory Garden Campaign of World War II   15.  GRZ Vignette Five- The Korean DMZ: from Red Zone to Green Zone 16.  Green Zones from Above and Below: A Retrospective and Cautionary Tale 17.  Reflections on Defiant Gardens: Making Gardens in Wartime Section 3- Cases & Practices 18.  Restoration of the urban forests of Tokyo and Hiroshima following World War II 19.  Valuing Urban Forest: Lessons to Learn from Hurricanes 20.  Trees, Rebirth and Resilience: Community-led Reforestation and Recovery in Post-Katrina New Orleans 21.  GRZ Vignette Six- Conservation in the Red Zone:  Creating Afghanistan's First National Park in the Midst of Conflict 22.  Destruction and Replanting of the urban forest of Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina 23.  The Re-greening of the Grey: Some Practical Considerations for the Urban Forest 24.  GRZ Vignette Seven- Trees and Tree Planting in Southern Madagascar:  Sacredness and Remembrance 25.  Community-based memorials to September 11, 2001: Environmental stewardship as memory work 26.  GRZ Vignette Eight- Six Ares of Land for the Resilience of Urban Families in Post-Soviet Russia 27.  Beyond the Bars: Landscapes for Health and Healing in Corrections 28.  GRZ Vignette Nine- Wildlife: The Catalyst for Peace in Northern Kenya 29.  Sustainability-oriented social learning in multi-cultural urban areas: The case of the Rotterdam Environmental Centre 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 31.  GRZ Vignette Ten- Reforestation Activities at a Chadian Refugee Camp in Northern Cameroon 32.  Growing Hope: How Urban Gardens are Empowering War-Affected Liberians and Harvesting a New Generation of City Farmers33.  Cyprus. Greening the Dead Zone.34.  GRZ Vignette Eleven- The Berlin Wall Trail - a cycling and hiking route on the traces of Berlin's Cold War Divide 35.  Synthesis and Conclusions: Applying Greening in Red ZonesAfterwordIn