The effects of organizations engaging residents in greening vacant lots: Insights from a United States national survey

《The effects of organizations engaging residents in greening vacant lots: Insights from a United States national survey》

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作者: Laney A. Rupp;Michelle C. Kondo;Bernadette C. Hohl;Evaine K. Sing;Alison R. Grodzinski;Marc A. Zimmerman

关键字: Resident engagement;Civic participation;Greening;Vacant lots;Vacant land;Organizational functioning

作者单位: Department of Health Behavior and Health Education, School of Public Health, University of Michigan, 1415 Washington Heights, Ann Arbor, MI, USA;USDA Forest Service, Northern Research Station, 100 N 20th St, Ste 205, Philadelphia, PA 19103, USA;Department of Biostatistics & Epidemiology, School of Public Health, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, 683 Hoes Lane West, Piscataway, NJ 08854, USA;Community Consultant/Owner, EKS Solutions, LLC, 915 Peralta Street, Pittsburgh, PA, USA;Department of Health Behavior and Health Education, School of Public Health, University of Michigan, 1415 Washington Heights, Ann Arbor, MI, USA;USDA Forest Service, Northern Research Station, 100 N 20th St, Ste 205, Philadelphia, PA 19103, USA;Department of Biostatistics & Epidemiology, School of Public Health, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, 683 Hoes Lane West, Piscataway, NJ 08854, USA;Community Consultant/Owner, EKS Solutions, LLC, 915 Peralta Street, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

摘要: BackgroundAs vacant lot inventories expand in cities across the U.S., vacant land management organizations require strategies that optimize their functioning while ensuring community benefit. Resident engagement in programs to green vacant land may be one helpful strategy. While resident engagement is often required for vacant land management organizations, few researchers have examined how these organizations engage residents and the effect of these practices on their functioning. We hypothesized that more intensive engagement such as involving residents in planning and implementing greening would be more predictive of organizational functioning than lower level engagement.