"My garden is an expression of me": Exploring householders' relationships with their gardens
"My garden is an expression of me": Exploring householders' relationships with their gardens
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DOI：
10.1016/j.jenvp.2012.01.005
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发表时间：
2012-06-01
影响因子：
6.9
通讯作者：
van Heezik, Yolanda
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作者：
Freeman, Claire;Dickinson, Katharine J. M.;van Heezik, Yolanda
家庭花园作为本土生物多样性保护的场所具有巨大的潜力。在城市地区，它们往往构成了最大的土地利用，从而为城市居民提供了一种与自然建立联系并支持和加强土著生物多样性的便捷方式。本文介绍了在新西兰达尼丁进行的一项对55个家庭花园的研究结果，该研究探索了住户与他们的花园的关系。研究数据来自对住户的两次采访，两次拍照练习(大约相隔一年)，以及对花园的一些生物学研究。事实证明，花园对我们的户主非常重要：对于身心健康，作为所有权和身份的表达，作为社会关系的场所，对于与自然的联系，作为国内农产品生产的场所。户主与自然的联系是独特的、多方面的，表现出来的方式比自然科学工作者和亲生物支持者通常认为的方式更加复杂和多样。我们强调，在寻求建立和支持城市环境中积极的生态变化方面，人在自然方面的重要性，以及将自然科学和社会科学方法结合起来的价值。(C)2012爱思唯尔有限公司。保留所有权利。
Domestic gardens offer immense potential as sites for native biodiversity conservation. In urban areas they often comprise the largest land use, thus presenting an accessible and immediate way for urban dwellers to connect with nature and to support and enhance native biodiversity. This paper presents findings from a study of 55 domestic gardens undertaken in Dunedin, New Zealand, which explores householders' relationships with their gardens. The study data was derived from two interviews with householders, two photo exercises (approximately a year apart), together with a number of biological studies of the gardens. Gardens proved to be very important for our householders: for physical and mental health, as an expression of ownership and identity, as sites for social relationships, for connecting with nature and as site of domestic produce production. Householders' connections with nature were idiosyncratic, multifaceted and exhibited in ways that are more complex and varied than those usually considered by those working in the natural sciences and indeed biophilia supporters. We emphasize the importance of the people side of nature in seeking to build and support positive ecological change in the urban environment and the value of combining natural and social science approaches. (C) 2012 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.