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Urban Environmental Stewardship and Civic Engagement - How planting trees strengthens the roots of democracy (Hardcover)
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Urban Environmental Stewardship and Civic Engagement - How planting trees strengthens the roots of democracy (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Explorations in Environmental Studies
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Once considered the antithesis of a verdant and vibrant ecosystem,
cities are now being hailed as highly efficient and complex social
ecological systems. Emerging from the streets of the
post-industrial city are well-tended community gardens, forested
parks and woodlands, rooftop farms, full-canopied streetscapes,
restored wetlands and other viable habitats capable of supporting
native flora and fauna. At the forefront of this transformation are
the citizens living in the cities themselves. As people around the
world increasingly relocate themselves to urban areas, this book
discusses how they engage in urban stewardship and what civic
participation in the environment means for democracy. One of the
most popular types of urban environmental campaign involves
planting trees throughout cities to re-green and revitalize
communities. This book looks at volunteers to one of the largest
urban re-greening initiatives in the United States: the
MillionTrees New York City initiative. This detailed case study
explores the social motivations of the volunteers who choose to
participate in this type of volunteer stewardship
activity.Understanding why some individuals choose to get involved
while others do not is an important objective at a time when city
governments in developed countries are investing more and more
money in green infrastructure campaigns to change the urban
landscape. Urban Environmental Stewardship and Civic Engagement
examines how the efforts of individuals to reshape cities
contributes to democracy and introduces and concludes its findings
with international applications to global cities and
sustainability.
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