Grassroots to Global: Broader Impacts of Civic Ecology

摘要

In Grassroots to Global: Broader Impacts of Civic Ecology, Marianne E. Krasny and colleagues add rich detail to the study of civic ecology practices. Initially proposed by Krasny and Tidball (2012 and 2015), civic ecology practices are “local environmental stewardship actions to enhance green infrastructure and community-wellbeing in cities and other human-dominated systems.” As global-scale ecological problems cast a growing shadow over the recent profusion of local environmental stewardship actions, the book’s contributors pose a timely question: “in what ways do small-scale civic ecology practices—milkweed planting for monarch butterfl ies in Chicago, tree planting in Detroit, community gardening in the Bronx, or litter cleanups in Bangalore and Tehran—make a diff erence beyond the small spaces that they immediately transform?” In an intentionally transdisciplinary design, Krasny invited a team of twenty-fi ve practitioner-scholars to trace the pathways that urban-based civic ecology practices make this diff erence (or not) in diff erent contexts.