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Currently our society is experiencing unprecedented conflict and violence from many different types of situations and causes. As our society is becoming increasingly more diverse, it has become more apparent that we need to rely on more environmentally sustainable mechanisms and cooperative behaviours to help address and reverse this trend. Political extremism, ethnocentric ideology and recent authoritarian leadership has resulted in an increasingly divided and polarized community. This book attempts to address the problems of violence and extremism through our evolutionary history in the need for all groups of individuals to work co-operatively and contribute to a healthier and more productive community where all individuals are afforded opportunities to share their skills in a more holistic, organic and collaborative process, what Ervin Staub (2013) refers to as the "constructive social process." This book examines how natural and ecologically sustainable (i.e., "green space") environments can help to promote more cooperative and prosocial behaviours within our communities and address the serious problems involving violence and ethnocentric ideologies.
Contents
Preface; Introduction; Interpersonal Relationships and Cooperative Behaviors: Why Green Space Programs Remain Important within our Communities Today; Planting Fruit Trees within Indigenous Populations: Empowering the Fon du Lac, Red Lake and Lower Sioux Tribal Nations Community through Sustainable Green Space Activities; Helping Communities to Breathe Again: Developing a Strength-Based Model of Community Empowerment in the Wake of George Floyd; Community Connectedness, Imagined Green Space Interactions and Professional Sports as Effective Measures in Achieving Social Justice; Do Natural Environments Make us Happier? Preferences of Green Space and Cooperative Behaviors as Evolved Psychological Mechanisms; Creating Communities of Positive Intergroup Contact: A Greener Approach in Achieving Environmental Justice; Building Your Own Community Garden: A How To Approach in Design and Maintenance; Epilogue; References; Index.
