Table of Contents
Preface
Introduction
Chapter 1: Interpersonal Relationships and Cooperative Behaviors: Why Green Space Programs Remain Important within our Communities Today
Chapter 2: Planting Fruit Trees within Indigenous Populations: Empowering the Fon du Lac, Red Lake and Lower Sioux Tribal Nations Community through Sustainable Green Space Activities
Chapter 3: Helping Communities to Breathe Again: Developing a Strength-Based Model of Community Empowerment in the Wake of George Floyd
Chapter 4: Community Connectedness, Imagined “Green Space” Interactions and Professional Sports as Effective Measures in Achieving Social Justice
Chapter 5: Do Natural Environments Make us Happier? Preferences of Green Space and Cooperative Behaviors as Evolved Psychological Mechanisms
Chapter 6: Creating Communities of Positive Intergroup Contact: A Greener Approach in Achieving Environmental Justice
Chapter 7: Building Your Own Community Garden: A “How To” Approach in Design and Maintenance
Epilogue
References
Index
Reviews
“In Building a More Peaceful Society through Positive Intergroup Contact: An Ecologically Sustainable Approach to Community Wellness, Dr. Hoffman explores experiences of inequity in our society related to racism, racialized violence, access to healthy food, distribution of green spaces, and community empowerment. Dr. Hoffman provides evidence of the positive impact of specific interventions like community gardens, planting initiatives to improve access to healthy food, and community-based service projects which lead to feelings of connectedness and empowerment, positive intergroup relationships, and improved well-being among community members. The green space interventions described in this work provide a blueprint for building more equitable, allied, safe, and healthy communities.” – Amy Gort, Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic and Student Affairs at Metropolitan State University