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.§