Greening in the Red Zone

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 Farmers§33. 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 Zones§Afterword§Index §This book discusses specific instances of greening and the presence of greened spaces in promoting and enhancing recovery, and perhaps resilience, in social-ecological systems disrupted by violent conflict or other catastrophic disaster.