1st Edition
Crisis Gardening A Global Perspective
Introduction: Crisis Gardening – An Act of Resistance and Resilience During Times of Hardship
Monika Egerer and Jonathan Kingsley
Section 1: Crisis gardening in relation to agroecology, transformative change in food systems and public health
Chapter 1: Gardening as a Response to Food Insecurity During Acute and Chronic Crises: A Narrative Review from the United States
Lucy O. Diekmann, Laura Vollmer, and Cassandra J. Nguyen
Chapter 2: How Gardening can Work Towards Combating the Biodiversity Crisis: A Landscape Perspective
Tamás Lakatos, Patrícia Andresz-Dérer, Dorota Kotowska, and Péter Batáry
Chapter 3: Opportunities of Urban Gardens for an Agri-food transition in the Context of Structural Crises in Argentina
Francisco Tomatis, Ana Maria Bonet, Ulises Reno, Ouiam Fatiha Boukharta, and Luis Manuel Navas Gracia
Section 2: Case studies from around the world of crisis gardening from various social-ecological perspectives
Chapter 4: Growth in Adversity: Exploring Crisis Gardening in African Cities from a Decolonial Perspective
Nicole Paganini
Chapter 5: The Langa Agri-Food Hub in Cape Town, South Africa: Strengthening Farmers’ Networks and Transforming Food Systems in Crisis
Natalia Urrego Diaz, Astrid Ley, Kurt Ackermann, and Leonie K Fischer
Chapter 6: From Crisis to Opportunity: Exploring Urban Food Growing in the UK During and Beyond the COVID-19 Pandemic
Chris Blythe, Silvio Caputo, Michael Hardman, Paul Milbourne, Mina Samangooei, and Victoria Schoen
Chapter 7: Combatting the Crisis of Social Isolation and Loneliness through Gardening
Troy Glover and Sina Kuzuoglu
Chapter 8: Meaningful Activities During the COVID-19 Public Health Crisis: Benefits and Challenges of Home Food Gardening in Santiago, Chile
Constanza Cerda Gosselin, Solene Guenat, Monika Egerer, and Leonie Fischer
Chapter 9: ‘A Sweet and Quiet Lesson in Motion’: The Pleasures of Pandemic Gardening
Kelly Donati and Nick Rose
Chapter 10: Mitigating a Public Health Crisis: Exploring the Benefits of Gardening for People Living with Dementia through Collaborative Autoethnography
Pauline Marsh, Theresa Scott, and Jonathan Kingsley
Section 3: The potential of gardening during crisis: scaling up the lessons from crisis gardening to transform food systems, public health systems, policy and landscape planning processes
Chapter 11: Community Gardens as a Source of Social Capital for Earthquake Preparedness: Case Studies from Old Neighborhoods in Kobe, Japan
Naomi Shimpo
Chapter 12: Homegardens in the Crises of Climate Change, Biodiversity Conservation, and Gender Equity: Perspectives from Bangladesh
Tarit Kumar Baul and Tapan Kumar Nath
Chapter 13: Towards Urban Resilience: Urban Gardening in Post-Earthquake Christchurch, New Zealand
Andreas Wesener and Matt Morris
Chapter 14: Response Options related to Health Benefits of Gardening in Times of Crisis
Agnes E. van den Berg, Victoria Bugni, Shureen Faris, and Rainovo Rasolofson
Conclusion
Jonathan Kingsley and Monika Egerer
Biography
Jonathan Kingsley is a Senior Lecturer in Health Promotion at Swinburne University of Technology. Prior to moving into academia Jonathan worked in Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisations, government bodies, and NGOs across Australia in public health and community development. Examples of these organisations include Oxfam Australia, VicHealth and the Victorian Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation. Jonathan views the natural environment as having the capacity to bridge health inequalities (the basis of his Honours, Masters, PhD and previous Visiting Academic position at Cambridge University). Jonathan views himself as not only an academic but an activist winning environment community engagement awards (for example, from Parks Victoria and the International Association for Ecology and Health) and sitting on multiple steering committees and research groups related to Indigenous and environmental health.
Dr. Monika Egerer is a professor at the Technical University of Munich in the School of Life Sciences. Her research investigates relationships between biodiversity conservation, ecosystem service provision, and human wellbeing in urban ecosystems, with a focus on urban agricultural systems such as urban gardens and farms. Monika’s work aims to bridge theory and practice to create productive systems in cities that offer food, habitat and community.
