Cultivated Therapeutic Landscapes: Gardening for Prevention, Restoration, and Equity

Cultivated Therapeutic Landscapes explores the impact of gardens and gardening on health and wellbeing,preventing illness and restoring wellbeing,and improving social and health equity through traditional and innovative mechanisms. It provides critical insights into the impact on health,wellbeing,and social equity,with practical skills for utilising horticulture or designing for particular health needs.

Format: Hardback
Length: 310 pages
Publication date: 31 July 2023
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Cultivated Therapeutic Landscapes is a comprehensive and insightful exploration of the profound impact of gardens and gardening on health and well-being. In this enlightening book, we delve into the various ways in which gardens and gardening can prevent illness, restore vitality, and promote social and health equity through traditional and innovative mechanisms, spanning a diverse range of sites.

Therapeutic landscapes are characterized by their relational, reciprocal, and evolving nature. This book showcases the expansion of therapeutic landscapes research and practice through and around the processes of cultivation, drawing upon the expertise of leading scholars from around the world. Deliberately interdisciplinary, the book explores how tending and caring for green spaces, both collectively and individually, contributes to the prevention and restoration of health and well-being, as well as the influence on upstream factors that shape social justice and equity.

A unique blend of academics, clinicians, and practitioners offers theoretical and practical insights into a wide array of health-enabling factors, based on new evidence and personal experiences gathered in home gardens, school gardens, community gardens, clinical settings, public green spaces, and sites of conservation and wilderness. This book pushes the boundaries of cultivation and horticulture into unexplored spatial, ontological, and wellbeing territories. While therapeutic horticulture has long held practical interest, it is only recently establishing a robust theoretical and research foundation.

This book fills a crucial gap by providing valuable critical insights into the impact on the key drivers of health, well-being, and social equity, with a particular focus on practical skills for utilizing horticulture or designing for specific health needs. It will be of immense interest to students, scholars, and practitioners in the fields of health geography, cultural geography, cultural studies, and related disciplines.

Dimension: 234 x 156 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781032409924