Urban Forests, Trees, and Greenspace

A Political Ecology Perspective
Herausgeber: Sandberg, L. Anders; Butt, Sadia; Bardekjian, Adrina

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Produktbeschreibung

This book brings a perspective of political ecology to the complexities of urban trees and forests through three themes: human agency in urban forests and greenspace; arboreal and greenspace agency in the urban landscape; and actions and interventions in the urban forest.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 350
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Juli 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 690g
• ISBN-13: 9780415714105
• ISBN-10: 0415714109
• Artikelnr.: 40477248

Autorenporträt

L. Anders Sandberg is Professor and former Associate Dean in the Faculty of Environmental Studies at York University, Toronto, Canada. His two most recent books are The Oak Ridges Moraine Battles: Development, Sprawl and Nature Conservation in the Toronto Region (2013) and Urban Explorations: Environmental Histories of the Toronto Region (2013). Adrina Bardekjian is a PhD candidate at the Faculty of Environmental Studies at York University, Toronto, Canada, where she studies under-represented narratives and strategic visioning for urban forestry praxis. She is an urban forestry researcher, writer and educator, and works with a number of organizations on a diversity of projects and initiatives. Sadia Butt is a PhD candidate at the Faculty of Forestry at the University of Toronto, Canada. She has worked in urban forestry for the last 15 years as a practitioner, reseracher and volunteer in raising urban forest awareness through environmental education.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction L. Anders Sandberg, Adrina Bardekjian, and Sadia Butt Part
1: Human Agency in Urban Forests and Greenspace 2. Urban Forests are Social
Natures: Markets, Race, Class, and Gender in Relation to (Un)just Urban
Environments Harold Perkins 3. From Government to Governance: Contribution
to the Political Ecology of Urban Forestry Cecil C. Konijnendijk van den
Bosch 4. A Genealogy of Urban Forest Discourse in Flanders, Belgium Ann Van
Herzele 5. Institutions, Law, and the Political Ecology of Urban Forestry:
A Comparative Approach Blake Hudson 6. Manufacturing Green Consensus: Urban
Green Governance in Singapore Natalie Gulsrud and Can Seng Ooi 7. The
Places of Trees in Honduras: Contributions of Public Spaces and
Smallholders Joby Bass Part 2: Arboreal and Greenspace Agency in the Urban
Landscape 8. (Urban) Places of Trees: Affective Embodiment, Identity and
Materiality Owain Jones 9. Order and Disorder in the Urban Forest: A
Foucauldian-Latourian Perspective Irus Braverman 10. High and Low, West and
East: Four Arboricultures of the Tokyo Metropolis Jay Bolthouse 11. The
Unruly Tree: Stories from the Archives Joanna Dean 12. Seeking Citizenship:
The Norway Maple in Canada Brendon Larson 13. Queering the Urban Forest:
The Ecological Ethics and Politics of Arboreal Entanglement Darren Patrick
14. The Thin End of the Green Wedge: Berlin's Planned and Unplanned Urban
Landscapes Cynthia Hammond Part 3: Actions and Interventions in the Urban
Forest 15. "A Few Trees" in Gezi Park: Resisting the Spatial Politics of
Neoliberalism in Turkey Bengi Akbulut 16. Constructing New York City's
Urban Forest: The Politics and Governance of the MillionTreesNYC Campaign
Lindsay Campbell 17. Promoting Green Space in Cape Town, South Africa: The
Role of the African Centre for Cities Pippin Anderson 18. Cultivating
Citizen Stewards: Lessons from Formal and Non-formal Educators Greg Smith
19. Learning and Acting through Participatory Landscape Planning: The Case
of the Bräkne River Valley, Sweden Helena Mellqvist and Roland Gustavsson
20. A Step, A Stitch, A Sense of Self: Woods Walking as an Artist's Path to
Creating Identity Kathleen Vaughan