Keith G. Tidball

TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore protocols for monitoring biodiversity, functional measures of ecosystem services, and ecosystem services valuation that can be adapted for use by practitioner-scientist partnerships in civic ecology settings and suggest that civic ecology practices not only create green infrastructure that produces ecosystem services but also constitute social-ecological processes that directly generate ecosystem services (e.g., recreation, education) and associated benefits to human well-being.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors use preliminary evidence from the Garden Mosaics intergenerational education program to suggest the potential for community gardens to foster multiple types of learning, including acquisition of content by individuals, interaction with other individuals and the environment, and social learning among groups of stakeholders leading to concerted action to enhance natural resources.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore the following hypothesis: civic ecology practices, including urban community forestry, community gardening, and other self-organized forms of stewardship of green spaces in cities, are manifestations of how memories of the role of greening in healing can be instrumentalized through social learning to foster social-ecological system resilience following crisis and disaster.

TL;DR: In an increasingly urban society, city residents are finding innovative ways of stewarding nature that integrate environmental, community, and individual outcomes as mentioned in this paper, such as community gardening, shellfish reintroductions, tree planting and care, and "friends of parks" initiatives.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that an environmental education program in which learning is situated in civic ecology practices also has the potential to address both community and environmental goals, and suggest that such education practices and related environmental education programs may foster resilience in urban social-ecological systems, through enhancing biological diversity and ecosystem services, and through incorporating diverse forms of knowledge and participatory processes in resource management.