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Connecting to nature through community engaged scholarship : community gardens in social housing as sites for collaborative relationships, psychological and physiological wellbeing

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  • معلومة اضافية
    • بيانات النشر:
      Switzerland, Frontiers Research Foundation
    • الموضوع:
      2022
    • Collection:
      University of Western Sydney (UWS): Research Direct
    • نبذة مختصرة :
      Community gardens are recognized as being associated with a range of benefits for participants that include enhanced outcomes in physical and affective domains and community building. The purpose of this study was to research the impact of the New South Wales Royal Botanic Gardens (RBG) Community Greening (CG) program and to inform the ongoing development of this community outreach program. The organic community partnerships inherent in the design and the relationships between the Community Greening program participants and researchers is examined through the lens of Community Engaged Scholarship (CES). Over a seven-month period, the CG team implemented a community garden development program in six sites. Mixed-method research on the impact of the program found that the community gardening participants experienced positive changes in physical activity, psychological wellbeing and motivation for social engagement, and these outcomes were facilitated as a result of their relationships with members of the CG team. This paper examines how such programs, when explicitly framed as CES, could assist in consolidating nature-based community health and wellbeing programs and further legitimize community partnerships in development of community garden and green spaces as academically sound investigation and socio-economically justified activity. Expansion of this nature-based collaboration model may also enhance community engagement in green exercise, psychological wellbeing and community cohesion, and in turn support advocacy for greener environments locally, regionally and nationally.
    • File Description:
      print
    • Relation:
      Frontiers in Psychiatry--1664-0640-- Vol. 13 Issue. No. 883817 pp: -
    • الرقم المعرف:
      10.3389/fpsyt.2022.883817
    • الدخول الالكتروني :
      https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2022.883817
      https://hdl.handle.net/1959.7/uws:67000
    • Rights:
      © 2022 Ward, Truong and Gray. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY) (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
    • الرقم المعرف:
      edsbas.78EF9772