Journal article
Multicultural gardeners and park users benefit from and attach diverse values to urban nature spaces
Monika Egerer, Camilo Ordóñez, Brenda B Lin, Dave Kendal
Urban Forestry & Urban Greening | Elsevier BV | Published : 2019
Abstract
Cities across the world increasingly reflect the ethno-cultural diversity of a globalized society. How people interact with, and experience urban nature varies with the form, structure, and function of the space, but also with peoples’ ethno-cultural identity. In this study, we investigated the values that gardeners and park users of different ethno-cultural identities associate with urban community gardens, parks and trees and the well-being benefits that they derive from them in Melbourne, Australia. We collected data from park users, and gardeners using intercept questionnaires with open-ended questions about motivations to garden and the importance of parks and trees to understand values..
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Awarded by National Institute of Food and Agriculture
Funding Acknowledgements
We thank the following community gardens and gardeners for supporting this research: Ashburton Community Garden, Balwyn Community Garden, Box Hill Community Garden, Essendon Community Garden, Flemington Community Garden, Hawthorn Riversdale Road Community Garden, Merri Corner Community Garden, Nunawading-Jolimont Community Garden, Nunawading-Slater Community Garden, Rushall Community Garden, and West Brunswick Community Garden and Food Forest. We thank the City of Melbourne and the City of Yarra for allowing us to research the city parks. Thanks to the University of Melbourne-Burnley for hosting this research and for research support. Thanks to SJ Livesley, A Singh, C Sonkkila, HA Tan, C Threlfall, and N Williams for assistance with data collection and research support. Funding for this project was provided by: the Australian Government's National Environmental Science Program through the Clean Air and Urban Landscapes Hub (#DE170100208); a US National Science Foundation Graduate Research Opportunities Worldwide Fellowship (#2016-174835); a US National Institute of Food and Agriculture grant (#2016-67019-25185); and a Australian Research Council (ARC) Linkage Partnership grant (#LP160100780). We also thank the City of Ballarat, City of Hume, City of Melbourne, and the City of Moreland for their support. Thank you to the Editor and three anonymous reviewers for their helpful feedback that significantly improved the manuscript.