■ In some instances involvement in social and therapeutic horticulture programmes can also lead to employment or further training or education. ‘Horticultural therapy is the use of plants by a trained professional as a medium through which certain clinically defined goals may be met’. ‘Therapeutic horticulture is the process by which individuals may develop well-being using plants and horticult...

BACKGROUND After retirement, elderly men and women allocate more time to housework activities, compared to working-age adults. Nonetheless, sleep constitutes the lengthiest time use activity among the elderly, but there has not been any study on the associations between time spent on housework activities, sleep duration and self-reported health among the older population. This study not only ex...

this paper presents a new approach for assessing agricultural landscapes based on mixturemethods and the study and definition of aesthetic attributes as lines, forms, texture, spatial composition, scaleand color as they are the closest to human perceptual aesthetic attributes. a set of variables capable ofquantifying those attributes in a simple, objective and systematized way will be proposed....

Urban agriculture/community gardening in the Bronx has multiple roles, including health-promoting, economic, environmental, and cultural. These roles are particularly important in light of urban sustainability issues and environmental justice concerns, such as differential access to open space, recreation, and fresh produce in poorer communities and communities of color, as well as differential...

Investment in the agricultural sector is important because this sector greatly affects the realms of providing food independence and security, employment, sustainable development, and environmental preservation. So, this study investigated the socio-economic impacts (direct and indirect effects) of the investment development policy on the agricultural sector and its sub-sectors in Iran in 2011 ...

Urban renewal urgently needs to find a new media tool extensively promote public participation. Professionals also need strong and powerful communication tools for the public. Mass has ability influence human perceptions behaviors, but its role been overlooked. This study aims arouse professionals’ attention mass interdisciplinary cooperation through empirical evidence. By observing performance...

Odo Strewe arrived in New Zealand 1938, a refugee from Nazi Germany. After release internment on Matiu (Somes Island) as an Enemy Alien during World War Two, he married and moved to Auckland where started landscape design construction business. had explored the idea of plants inside buildings very first house that made for his family Glen Eden, 1949. An Australian journalist writing about descr...

Pollinator gardening has rapidly become recognized as an important component of conservation to combat the issues that have resulted from rapid urbanization. Residential yards can support pollinators and help restore their habitats. Thus, opportunity exists for Extension other practitioners encourage greater engagement in pollinator gardening. However, research indicated unique perceived barrie...

The present study was done at Antoniades Research Branch, Ornamental Plants and Landscape Gardening Res. Dept., Hort. inst., ARC, Alexandria, Egypt, during the two successive seasons of 2019 2020. aim this work to evaluate ability use Nigella sativa, Rosmarinus officinalis Citrus lemon essential oils (EOs) 0.0,50,100,200 mg/l as holding solution on reducing bacterial decay prolonging vase life ...