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Young, Jocelyn. "Sherbrooke Community Centre, a restorative garden." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2001. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp04/MQ57598.pdf.
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Hammarsten, Victoria, and Yvonne Boqvist. "Trädgårdsterapi- kan det hjälpa? : en kunskapsöversikt om trädgårdsterapins roll vid tillfrisknande från stressrelaterad ohälsa." Thesis, Högskolan i Gävle, Akademin för hälsa och arbetsliv, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hig:diva-8351.
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Syftet med vår studie var att studera trädgårdsterapins roll i människors tillfrisknande från stressrelaterad ohälsa. Studiens frågeställningar var: (1) vilka faktorer beskrivs som stressreducerande i natur och trädgård? (2) på vilket sätt kan personer med stressrelaterad ohälsa bli hjälpta genom trädgårdsterapi? För att besvara våra frågeställningar användes en kvalitativ metod med hjälp av en kunskapsöversikt. Våra analysverktyg har varit KASAM och Coping. Slutsatsen av studien är att trädgård och natur kan stärka återhämtningsprocessen för människor med stressrelaterad ohälsa. Trädgård och natur kan bidra med stressreducerande faktorer som gör att återhämtningen påskyndas och stärks, såsom att hitta lugn, känna trygghet och få utrymme för reflektion. Även samtal och aktiviteter är viktiga delar för återhämtning i trädgårdsterapin. Sökord vi använt oss av är: trädgårdsterapi, terapiträdgårdar, grön rehabilitering, restorativ trädgård och stressrelaterad ohälsa.The aim of this study was to study the role of horticultural therapy in people´s recovery from stress-related illness. Study questions were: (1) what factors are described as stress-reducing in nature and gardening? (2) in what way can people with stress-related illness be helped by garden therapy? In order to answer our questions, a qualitative methodology using a research synthesis has been made. Our analysis tools were Sense of Coherence and Coping. The study shows that garden and nature can enhance the recovery process for people with stress-related illness. Garden and nature can help with stress-reducing factors that make recovery accelerated and strengthened, such as finding peace, feeling safe and have a space for reflection. Also conversations and activities are important elements for recovery in the horticultural therapy. Keywords we have used are: horticultural therapy, healing gardens, garden therapy, therapeutic gardens, green rehabilitation, restorative garden and stress related illness.
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DeVault, J. Ross. "Active and restorative campus: designing a garden street for student’s mental and physical well-being." Kansas State University, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/19238.
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Master of Landscape ArchitectureDepartment of Landscape Architecture/Regional and Community Planning
Hyung Jin Kim
A significant decline of mental and physical health exists within college students today (ACHA, 2014; Gallagher, 2006). Recently, to promote mental health, restorative landscapes have emerged as a trend in healthcare environments by formalizing the healing properties of nature within a designed environment. Humans have been shown to undergo a measurable relief of stress, improved attention, and an improved overall sense of well-being when exposed to a restorative landscape setting. Opportunities exist for university campuses to more advantageously employ the mental health benefits of restorative landscapes. Furthermore, to address physical health, the university campus holds unique opportunities to increase students’ physical activity through promotion of active lifestyles using active modes of transportation. Campus streets, based on their lack of affordances to promote mental and physical health as well as their inherent connectivity to key campus buildings and spaces are investigated as a site for a designed solution. A recent trend of campus street conversions to pedestrian malls is identified and explored as a tool to facilitate creation of a restorative and active campus. The project, based in two fundamental research questions, investigates how campus street design can improve the collective mental health of college students, and how campus street design can promote physical health. Literature review analysis reveals theories and principles of restorative landscape and campus design. The project unites these findings with case study analysis to form a framework to facilitate the design of restorative environments within a university campus. Pragmatic evidence of built environment interventions has been synthesized from literature review and case study analysis into an additional framework to increase physical activity through active transportation. Kansas State University’s campus has been identified as a suitable case for a design proposal. Planning and design decisions at three nested scales are made to illustrate how the frameworks may be applied to reclaim a campus street as an active and restorative “garden street.” In the context of declining mental and physical health among college students, the synthesis of principles related to restorative landscape design and active transportation presents a valuable structure to mitigate declining mental and physical health of students.
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Burch, Judith Gulliver. "Dementia garden design: a framework to facilitate Kaplans’ attention restoration theory (A.R.T.) in environments of care." Thesis, Kansas State University, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/13665.
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Master of Landscape ArchitectureDepartment of Landscape Architecture/Regional and Community Planning
Timothy D. Keane
This thesis documents an exploratory design process that examines the efficacy of a framework for designing dementia gardens based on: theory, Stephen and Rachel Kaplan’s Attention Restoration Theory (A.R.T.), (Kaplan and Kaplan, 1989) and Roger Ulrich’s Theory of Supportive Gardens (Ulrich, 1999); John Zeisel’s (2007) process for designing dementia gardens; and design details, Claire Cooper Marcus’ Garden Audit Tool (2007) and Moore’s analysis of exemplary dementia gardens (2007). It documents the integration of theory that is not specific to dementia gardens (Kaplans’ A.R.T. and Ulrich’s Theory of Supportive Gardens) with process (Zeisel) and programming elements that are specific to dementia gardens (Cooper Marcus’ Garden Audit Tool Kit and Moore’s exemplary dementia gardens). The framework was developed during an illustrative courtyard design project for a retirement center whose clientele included patients with varying need levels. Throughout the illustrative design project, knowledge of the four A.R.T. characteristics (Being Away, Fascination; Compatibility and Extent) guided design decision-making in an effort to create an engaging environment, where improved health outcomes and restorative person-environment interactions could occur.
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Giouvanaki, Asimina. "Nature’s Impact on Mental and Physical Wellbeing : A study of the mental and physical health in Greek Immigrants to Sweden." Thesis, Högskolan i Gävle, Avdelningen för humaniora, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hig:diva-36458.
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In the past Man coinhabited harmoniously with nature only to have the balance disturbed with the advent of the Industrial Revolution replacing the green habitat with urban concrete settlements Consequently, the characteristics of the contemporary city pose a set of serious threat to man’s physical and mental health. Crowdedness, lack of apt infrastructure, pollution, noise pollution and rise in temperature are all contributing factors to the Man’s demised health and detachment from previous amicable coexistence with nature. For the past 30 years, extensive research has been conducted studying the correlation between man and nature, and nature’s impact on man’s health. The theory of “Biophilia,” by Edward, O. Wilson, Rachel and Stephen Kaplan’s “Attention Restorative Theory,” and Roger Ulrich’s “Stress Reduction Theory,” have been innovating and contributing towards gaining more understanding of the importance of a green environment in man’s everyday life. As a corollary the above-mentioned theories gave rise to the following quantitative study conducted over a 4-month period, including 81 respondents, in Spring 2020, focusing on whether a natural green environment in Sweden had impacted the mental and physical health in Greek immigrants to Sweden. The findings suggest that comparing the respondents’ life in Greece and respectively in Sweden there was indeed an improvement in the mood and health of the sample groups taking into consideration: how healthy they are, how healthy they feel, how happy they feel in relation to work, time spent in Sweden, marital status and of course the parameters that focus on the part of the natural environment at home and in their neighbourhood in Sweden. There seem to have been a statistically significant improvement in their health compared to when they lived in Greece but there is insufficient evidence to support that some of the parameters examined are responsible for this. Happiness on the other hand seem to possess a statistical important role due to their marital status among others along with the green surrounding environment having an impact on their mental well-being but not their physical health. Therefore, a more sustainable green environment seems to have impacted the overall psychological and physical state of the respondents, but further extensive research is recommended to investigate in depths others factors i.e., psychosomatics, environmental psychology along with nature related theories and studies.
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Gutierrez, Josef. "Restorative campus landscapes: fostering education through restoration." Kansas State University, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/15649.
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Master of Landscape ArchitectureDepartment of Landscape Architecture
Laurence A. Clement, Jr.
Restorative landscapes are a growing trend within health care environments and can have a lasting impact on people if applied within other settings, particularly higher education campuses. Their design captures the many healing qualities of nature that humans are instinctively attracted to (Heerwagen, 2011). Within restorative landscapes, people have been historically found to experience relief of stress, improved morale, and improved overall well-being (Barnes et al., 1999). While campus planning standards do consider the outdoor environment as an extension of the classroom, higher education campuses can do more to utilize the cognitive benefits of nature for students, faculty and staff. This project explores principles and theories of restorative landscape design, empirical psychological research, and campus design to develop a framework that facilitates the creation of restorative campus spaces on higher education campuses. In partnership with the Office of Design and Construction Management at the University of Kansas, the framework was subsequently applied through the design of the landscape for the Center for Design Research on the KU campus. In the context of current campus planning challenges, restorative landscape design is a potentially valuable strategy in strengthening the beneficial roles and efficacy of the campus landscape. This design project explores its application to envision places within a higher education campus that, along with other benefits, relieve stress for students, faculty and staff.
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Vapaa, Annalisa Gartman. "Healing Gardens: Creating Places for Restoration, Meditation, and Sanctuary." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/32684.
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The â healing gardenâ is an evolving concept that is gaining popularity today. What is a healing garden? Why is one garden called a healing garden and not another? How is a healing garden defined? In what way are gardens healing? This thesis describes the ways in which healing gardens are beneficial in healthcare and residential settings. A set of guidelines for the design of healing gardens is created as a result of research findings as well as three design projects that are illustrated in the document.Master of Landscape Architecture
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Carter, Daniel Lanphier. "Grassland restoration in a changing world: consequences of restoration approaches and variable environments." Diss., Kansas State University, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/15357.
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Doctor of PhilosophyDepartment of Division of Biology
John Blair
The feasibility of restoration, which traditionally targets historical conditions, is questionable in the context of global change. To address this, my dissertation investigated (Chapter 2) the patterns of restoration establishment along a chronosequence of restored prairies with respect to nearby remnant prairies, (Chapters 3-4) responses of plant communities in restorations initiated using different methods (levels of species richness and sowing density) to drought, which is projected to increase in frequency, and (Chapters 5-6) the effects of propagule source and variation (mixing among sources) on restoration establishment and the generality of restoration outcomes across variable environments using reciprocal common gardens of multi-species restoration seedings. Chapter 2, published in Restoration Ecology, showed that restoration led to the recovery of desirable characteristics within several years, but restorations utilizing primarily fall-collected seeds likely diminished the representation of early phenology species, so biodiversity may be further enhanced by including early phenology species in seeding mixes. Chapters 3 and 4, published respectively in Ecological Applications and Applied Vegetation Science, examined the establishment of native plant communities after seeding and their responses to experimentally imposed drought. Both high seed mixture richness and high density seeding resulted in greater establishment of native, seeded species compared to low richness and low density treatments, and exotic species were less prevalent in high richness and high density treatments. However, we found little evidence of differential drought resistance, recovery, and resilience among treatments. This result coupled with increases in exotic species following drought suggest that other forms of active management may be needed to produce restored plant communities that are robust to climate change. Chapter 5 (published in Ecosphere) iii and Chapter 6 found that seed source affects individual species establishment, community structure, and productivity. However, there was no consistent advantage for any source, including local sources, across sites or species. This suggests that source effects on single species or effects observed at single locations should not be broadly generalized. Together, this dissertation shows that restoration can recover many characteristics of native prairies and that manipulation of seeding practices (seed mixture richness, seeding density, seed source) influence grassland establishment in terms of productivity, community structure, invasion, and the abundance and survival of individual species.
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Leite, Andreia Filipa Oliveira. "Quinta da Penha Longa. Análise e requalificação dos jardins." Master's thesis, ISA/UL, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.5/11158.
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Mestrado em Arquitectura Paisagista - Instituto Superior de AgronomiaThe Historic Gardens symbolize the passing of generations and bring to today important testimonies that allow us to perceive and analyze the characteristics and formal concerns, aesthetic and symbolic of the era in which they find themselves. At present many of the existing Historic Gardens are serious degradation problems requiring rapid action to not completely lose their initial characteristics. So, arises the Landscape Architect that through historical analysis of each garden and taking into account the current needs of their users return them identity through restoration techniques, recovery and rehabilitation. One among many examples in Portugal are the Gardens of Penha Longa in Sintra. Inserted into a monastic complex of the early fifteenth century, the gardens, element of study and intervention in this thesis, are currently in reasonable condition, having suffered recent intervention by the School of Professional Asset Recovery Sintra. For a more practical approach of this set were chosen to undergo three gardens intervention improvement, in order to give them and return its initial characteristics that were missing over the centuries
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Sternik, Maria. "Back to the Garden of Eden the role of erotic love in the process of restoration /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1995. http://www.tren.com.
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Chan, Nga-lai Lillian, and 陳雅麗. "A study of a potential heritage site: the Repulse Bay beach Hong Kong Life Saving Society and seafront garden." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2010. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B47091447.
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The Repulse Bay Cultural Landscape can be identified as a “Continuing Landscape” in the UNESCO cultural landscape categories. At the south end of the beach is the Hong Kong Life Saving Society Headquarters, Club House (HKLSS), and seafront Garden, which has evolved over the last fifty odd years. It continues to do so, and is highly acclaimed in Hong Kong for its water safely education and its recognition by the international community. Over the years, the HKLSS placed more than one hundred religiously related (Buddhism, Taoism and Chinese folklore) architectural elements including statues, memorial tablets, and steles, as well as pagoda and pavilion In this seafront Chinese style garden This site is used by a massive number of “stakeholders” including HKLSS members, local residents and tourists, etc. And the place is without proper management and maintenance because of lack of financial and expert support. Also, through lack of social awareness, the condition of some of the structures which may have heritage value is declining disintegrating badly. Because this place was mainly developed from the 50s onward, it is unlikely to be considered as a heritage site by conservation professionals. In order to identify this seafront property’s potential heritage value, the focus of research should be on discovering and recording the heritage value of the place.
My dissertation aims to reveal and explain the physical aspect and related elements-architecture and space- of this seafront property, and the social aspect- achievement- of one of its major stakeholder (The Hong Kong Life Saving Society). I have produced a SWOT Analysis Report and Heritage Assessment (Using the heritage criteria of the Hong Kong Antiquation and Monument office) in order to identify the heritage value of this place, and explain why “Preventive Conservation” is necessary.published_or_final_version
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Lau, Hon-bong Rex, and 劉漢邦. "Colonial garden: a sense of history, a sense of place." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1999. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31985233.
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Philen, Melissa. "A Bunker Garden: Mindfulness-Based Landscape Design to Restore Physicians from Burnout." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/79971.
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Landscape architects design healing gardens at healthcare facilities to support patients, visitors, caregivers, and staff. Many acknowledge that medical staff regularly visit healing gardens to escape work-related stress (Marcus and Sachs, 2014). Rarely, however, are healing gardens on medical campuses designed specifically to support physicians' well-being. There is a void in healing garden design theory. Reports on the prevalence of physician burnout, warn of a widespread crisis and dismal reality within the medical community (T. D. Shanafelt et al., 2015). Researchers pronounce an urgent need for evidence-based interventions, which address individual contributing factors to burnout (Christina Maslach, Jackson, and Leiter, 1986). By investigating the Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction program, an evidence-based therapy, clinically proven to cultivate emotional healing, for physicians suffering burnout, this research reveals how a therapeutic garden could meld mindfulness-based practices with environmental theory; healing garden design precedents; and healthcare design typologies. Finally, mindfulness-based landscape design guidelines describe how a private, restorative, healing garden could help maintain physicians' well-being and rehabilitate physicians experiencing burnout due to emotional exhaustion within the workplace.Master of Landscape Architecture
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Bauman, Dawn G. "A vegetation management study and guidelines for the Ravine Garden of the Lilly Pavilion at the Indianapolis Museum of Art." Virtual Press, 1989. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/722757.
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The goals of this report were: 1) to present a comparison between historic and present day landscape plantings in the Ravine Garden of the Lilly Pavilion at the Indianapolis Museum of Art; and 2) to develop and establish a vegetation management study that would provide guidelines for the vegetation management of the Ravine Garden. The study and guidelines were developed in order to: a) remove inappropriate present day plantings; b) protect the historic landscape plantings; c) eventually replant the historic plants currently missing; and d) manage the vegetation of the Ravine Garden as in an important historic designed landscape.Department of Landscape Architecture
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Velez-Romero, Vanessa. "Historic Hispanic gardens of La Ciudad Colonial of Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic." Virtual Press, 2000. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/1180789.
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This creative project presents architectural and design principles of the landscape features define as Hispanic gardens, which were built by the Spanish conquistadors of the island of La Hispaniola since 1492 up to the seventeenth century in La Ciudad Colonial of Santo Domingo, today capital of the Dominican Republic. This study researches the urban and architectural characteristics of the Colonial City of Santo Domingo as well as the main elements that define the Spanish gardens and also some of the current strategies and techniques for garden restoration. Those aspects are a background and support to the identification of these Hispanic gardens and to the proposed guidelines for the rehabilitation of these historic areas. To fulfill a further purpose of promoting an integral restoration* of the Colonial City of Santo Domingo, the goals of the project relate to the areas of landscape and architecture, and to the social and educational contexts. Therefore, the recommended guidelines for the rehabilitation of the historic Hispanicgardens of La Ciudad Colonial of Santo Domingo are a preliminary step toward a different approach of the preservation of this cultural landscape.Integral restoration, to this project, it is understood as a plan of preservation, which valorizes all the aspects concerning to architecture, landscape, and the urban and social patterns related to La Ciudad Colonial of Santo Domingo.Department of Landscape Architecture
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Berkowitz, Briana N. "Home Gardenscapes for the Promotion of Ecological and Cultural Plant Diversity on Sint Eustatius, Dutch Caribbean." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1500552446404299.
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Borey, Erica. "Reichenbachia, Imperial Edition: Rediscovering Frederick Sander’s Late-Victorian Masterpiece of Botanical Art." VCU Scholars Compass, 2013. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/3292.
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This thesis project examines the history, provenance, and contemporary treatment of a rare Imperial Edition of Frederick Sander’s print collection Reichenbachia, Orchids Illustrated and Described, a high-quality orchid compendium dating to the late-nineteenth century. A local philanthropist loaned the Imperial Edition Reichenbachia, number 86 of 100 to Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden in 2011 on a long-term basis as a promised donation. Research into the origins of this collection involves several disparate historical topics, including the Victorian period of “orchid mania,” imperialist business practices, and chromolithographic printmaking. Discussion of the transition of this collection into a museum art collection covers its consequent registration, conservation, and exhibition. Finally, this thesis project considers the advantages and disadvantages of managing an art collection at a botanical garden.
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Brown, Morgan Alexander. "The Pleiadic Age of Stuart Poesie: Restoration Uranography, Dryden's Judicial Astrology, and the Fate of Anne Killigrew." Digital Archive @ GSU, 2010. http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/english_theses/77.
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The following Thesis is a survey of seventeenth-century uranography, with specific focus on the use of the Pleiades and Charles's Wain by English poets and pageant writers as astrological ciphers for the Stuart dynasty (1603-1649; 1660-1688). I then use that survey to address the problem of irony in John Dryden's 1685 Pindaric elegy, "To the Pious Memory of Mrs. Anne Killigrew," since the longstanding notion of what the Pleiades signify in Dryden's ode is problematic from an astronomical and astrological perspective. In his elegiac ode, Dryden translates a young female artist to the Pleiades to actuate her apotheosis, not for the sake of mere fulsome hypberbole, but in such a way that Anne (b. 1660-d. 1685) signifies for the reign of Charles II (1660-1685) in her Pleiadic catasterism. The political underpinnings of Killigrew's apotheosis reduce the probability that Dryden's hyperbole reserves pejorative ironic potential.
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Gutmanová, Daniela. "ResPublica/Civitas Socialis – Strachotín, l. p. 2017." Master's thesis, Vysoké učení technické v Brně. Fakulta architektury, 2017. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-316288.
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The aim of the thesis is to define the vision (in concrete proposals) for the functioning of community, socio-social, leisure and other activities in the village. The vision as such emerged on the basis of analyzes already in the last semester, on its basis, we come to the solution of a partial project, which should show the municipality how to go and why. Representatives and residents of Strachotín have for a long time been considering certain steps, construction works of varying extent, which would strengthen the population, their possibilities in using the potential of the place (wine, tourism) and the village returned the lost face.There is only a small distance between the village and the end of the village in the direction of Pálava, but there is an important urban area - the surroundings of the church - which is historically very important and it hides its potential. In my work, I have commissioned him to uncover it and try to inspect what she can offer. Not only for tourists, but also for locals.
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Radinger, Johannes. "Modelling fish dispersal in catchments affected by multiple anthropogenic pressures." Doctoral thesis, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Lebenswissenschaftliche Fakultät, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.18452/17067.
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Die Besiedlung von Gewässern durch Fische, ist neben abiotischen Lebensraumbedingungen auch von der Erreichbarkeit d.h. von der art-spezifischen Ausbreitungsfähigkeit sowie von Wanderhindernissen abhängig. Der erste Teil dieser Arbeit bietet die erste umfangreiche quantitative Analyse von Ausbreitungsmustern und -distanzen von Flussfischen. Aus der Fachliteratur wurden 160 empirische Datensätze aus 71 wissenschaftlichen Studien zur Ausbreitung von 62 Fischarten in Flüssen extrahiert und an leptokurse Wahrscheinlichkeits-Dichte-Funktionen (Dispersal kernel) angepasst. Es konnte bei Fischpopulationen zwischen einer stationären (ca. 2/3) und einer mobilen Komponente (ca. 1/3) unterschieden werden deren Ausbreitungsdistanzen von vier Faktoren abhängig sind: Fischlänge, Form der Schwanzflosse, Fließgewässergröße, betrachtete Zeitspanne. Der zweite Teil dieser Arbeit widmet sich dem neu entwickelten Fischausbreitungsmodell FIDIMO einem GIS-Softwareprogramm zur Modellierung und Simulation der räumlichen und zeitlichen Ausbreitungsmuster von Fischen in Flüssen unter Berücksichtigung von Wanderhindernissen. FIDIMO verknüpft konzeptionelle Überlegungen zu Ausbreitungsmodellen in verzweigten Fließgewässernetzwerken mit empirisch bestimmten leptokursen Fischausbreitungskurven unter ausschließlicher Verwendung von Free and Open Source Software. Im dritten Teil der Arbeit wurde FIDIMO zur Modellierung der Ausbreitung von 17 Fischarten angewendet um die Einflüsse von (i) Habitatqualität, (ii) Ausbreitungsfähigkeit und (iii) Fließgewässer-Fragmentierung auf die Besiedlungsmuster durch Fische zu bestimmen. Die Ergebnisse zeigen, dass die artspezifische Habitatqualität und Ausbreitungsfähigkeit die Besiedlung maßgeblich bestimmen. Dagegen wurde kein signifikanter Einfluss von Barrieren auf das Vorkommen einer Art gefunden. Über längere Zeiträume sinkt der Einfluss von Fischausbreitung auf das lokale Vorkommen einer Fischart während die Habitatqualität relativ wichtiger wird.The colonisation of rivers by fishes is directly linked to abiotic habitat conditions but often impaired by dispersal abilities of fishes and movement constraints such as barriers. The first part of this thesis provides the first comprehensive quantitative analysis of freshwater fish movement while considering fish populations consisting of differently mobile specimens. 160 empirical datasets from 71 studies on the movement of 62 riverine fish species were analysed based on refitted leptokurtic probability-density functions (dispersal kernels). A share of one third and two thirds emerged as a general pattern of the mobile and stationary component of a fish population, respectively. Moreover, four variables were identified primarily determining dispersal distances: fish length, aspect ratio of the caudal fin, river size and time. In the second part of the thesis, the novel fish dispersal model FIDIMO is introduced. FIDIMO provides a GIS-tool for predicting and simulating spatio-temporal patterns of fish dispersal in dendritic river networks considering movement barriers. The fish dispersal model FIDIMO links conceptual considerations on dispersal modelling with empirically observed leptokurtic fish movement patterns and the strengths of geographically explicit modelling in Free and Open Source GIS. In the third part of the thesis, FIDIMO was applied for modelling dispersal of 17 fish species to disentangle the effects of (i) habitat suitability, (ii) dispersal constraints and (iii) network fragmentation on the distribution of river fishes. The results show significant positive effects of both, local-scale habitat quality and species-specific dispersal ability on the distribution of river fishes, whereas no significant effect of barriers influencing the presence of a species could be found. Over longer time periods the importance of dispersal decreased in favour of habitat suitability becoming relatively more relevant in determining species'' presence.
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Vidaller, Christel. "Quels facteurs limitent l’installation de Brachypodium retusum : une espèces clé pour la restauration écologique des steppes méditerranéennes ?" Thesis, Avignon, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018AVIG0349/document.
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Le brachypode rameux (Brachypodium retusum) est une espèce herbacée pérenne qui domine les pelouses sèches de Méditerranée occidentale. Dans notre zone d’étude du Sud de la France, la recolonisation spontanée est très faible après perturbation du sol. Cette observation ne correspond pas aux résultats d'études menées dans d'autres régions montrant une capacité de colonisation élevée. L'objectif principal de cette thèse était donc de tester les différentes hypothèses pouvant expliquer les différents patrons de colonisation.Dans un premier chapitre, nous avons testé si ces différents patrons de colonisation résultent d'une différenciation génétique entre les populations. Des marqueurs AFLP ont été utilisés pour analyser la structure génétique de 17 populations de Méditerranée occidentale dont la différenciation neutre entre populations. Dans un sous-échantillon de 13 populations françaises, la différenciation de traits phénotypiques sous sélection a été testée dans un jardin commun et comparée à la différenciation neutre. Dans le deuxième chapitre, nous présentons une étude sur la différenciation adaptative des traits phénotypiques et avons testé une potentielle réponse différentielle à la manipulation de facteurs environnementaux clés. Les deux derniers chapitres de la thèse ont analysé les facteurs environnementaux qui limitent la recolonisation in situ, indépendamment du génotype ou de la population. Dans le troisième chapitre, nous avons testé l’effet du pâturage et du feu sur le recouvrement végétatif ainsi que sur la reproduction sexuée de B. retusum installé. Enfin, dans le quatrième chapitre, nous avons mesuré l’effet de l’arrosage initial et du pâturage sur l’installation de plantules transplantées initialement germées en serre et de plantules issues de semis in situ. Nos résultats ont montré que les populations de B. retusum sont génétiquement différenciées pour les marqueurs neutres mais également pour les traits phénotypiques. Cette différenciation est supérieure à la dérive seule et suggère une adaptation aux conditions environnementales, en particulier aux températures estivales et à la fréquence du gel en hiver. Une réponse différentielle à la manipulation expérimentale de facteurs environnementaux (sol, pâturage, humidité du sol) a confirmé le caractère adaptatif de la différenciation génétique. Les expériences in situ ont montré que le feu a un effet positif sur la reproduction de B. retusum et sur la communauté végétale associée, alors que son recouvrement végétatif n’était pas supérieur à la moyenne de la communauté. L'exclusion du pâturage pendant deux saisons n'a eu d'incidence sur aucun des paramètres mesurés chez les populations adultes. L'arrosage initial a affecté l’installation des plantules au cours de la première saison. Au cours de la deuxième saison, l'effet seul de l’arrosage n'était pas significatif, cependant son effet est resté positif sur la survie uniquement dans les parcelles pâturées. Le pâturage, au début du cycle de vie de B. retusum, a eu un effet négatif sur le recrutement et la croissance des plantules. En conclusion, la différenciation adaptative entre les populations peut avoir contribué aux différences régionales en termes de capacité de colonisation et doit être prise en compte lors du ciblage des populations sources pour l'introduction de plantes en restauration écologique. La réponse positive de B. retusum a indiqué que le feu était une force sélective importante dans le passé qui pourrait être utilisée pour favoriser l'espèce et la communauté végétale associée dans des opérations de conservation et de restauration. L'exclusion du pâturage à court terme est tolérée par les populations adultes de B. retusum, mais l'abandon à long terme entraîne une diminution de son recouvrement par rapport aux graminées pérennes à croissance rapideRamose false brome (Brachypodium retusum) is a perennial herbaceous species that dominates dry grasslands of the Western Mediterranean. In our southern French study area, spontaneous re-colonisation is very low after soil disturbance. This observation does not correspond to the results of studies from other regions showing a high colonisation capacity. The major objective of this PhD thesis was to test different hypotheses potentially explaining the different colonisation patterns.In the first chapter, we tested whether these different colonisation patterns are the result of genetic differentiation among populations. AFLP markers were used to analyse genetic structure including neutral population differentiation in 17 Western Mediterranean populations. In a sub-sample of 13 French populations, differentiation in phenotypic traits under selection was tested in a common garden and compared to neutral differentiation. In the second chapter, we present a study on adaptive differentiation in phenotypic traits testing a potentially differential response to the manipulation of key environmental factors. The last two chapters of the PhD analysed environmental factors that limit re-colonisation in the field independent of genotype or population. In the third chapter, we tested the effect of grazing and fire on vegetative recovery as well as on sexual reproduction of established B. retusum and in the fourth chapter we measured the effect of initial watering and grazing on the establishment of transplanted seedlings pre-grown in a greenhouse and of field-sown seedlings.Our results showed that populations of B. retusum are genetically differentiated in neutral markers but also in phenotypic traits. This differentiation is superior to drift alone and suggests adaptation to environmental conditions, particularly to summer temperature and winter frost frequency. A differential response to experimental manipulation of environmental factors (soil, pasture, soil moisture) confirmed the adaptive character of genetic differentiation. The field experiments showed that fire has a positive effect on B. retusum reproduction and on the associated community whereas vegetative recovery was not higher than community average. Two seasons of grazing exclosure did not affect any of the measured parameters in adult populations. Initial watering affected seedling establishment in the first season. In the second season, the watering main effect was not significant but interestingly the effect remained positive on survival in grazed plots whereas no such effect was observed in exclosures. Grazing in early life cycle stages of B. retusum had a negative effect on seedling recruitment and growth.In conclusion, adaptive differentiation between populations may have contributed to regional differences in colonisation capacity and needs to be taken into account in targeting source populations for plant introduction in ecological restoration. The positive response of B. retusum indicated that fire was an important selective force in the past which may be used to favour the species and its associated plant community in current conservation and restoration management. Short-term grazing exclosure is tolerated by mature B. retusum populations but long-term abandonment results in a decrease of cover relative to high-growing perennial grasses. In early stages of seedling establishment grazing should be avoided to guarantee introduction success - or grazing stress needs to be compensated by watering
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Liao, Yan Chiou, and 廖晏秋. "The Influences of Landscape Garden Styles on Restorative Perception and Restorative Benefits." Thesis, 2015. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/93042648102055247367.
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Chang, Chun-Wan, and 張純婉. "Restorative Perception and Psychophysiological Benefits of Healing Garden: A Case of Taichung Veterans General Hospital." Thesis, 2011. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/28194576459499654427.
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碩士東海大學
景觀學系
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Previous studies have shown that natural environment and landscape has restorative qualities. People can perceive positive physiological and psychological benefits when they are in the natural environment or landscape. It was also shown that healing gardens surrounding the hospitals have positive effects on users’ psychophysiological benefits. However, how to import healing garden design guidelines to improve landscape quality of outdoor garden within medical facilities and enhance its restorative qualities and psychophysiological benefits still lacks supports from empirical studies. Therefore, based on Kaplan & Kaplan’s (1989) theory, this study was to explore the difference between the existing gardens and the simulated healing gardens in a medical institution regarding users’ restorative perception and perception of psychophysiological benefits. In order to compare the existing garden with simulated healing garden on the perceptions of restorativeness and psychophysiological benefits, the healing garden was presented by a photo which was simulated by using the photo of the existing garden as the background, and then adding into the characteristics of healing gardens. Data were collected using a self-reported questionnaire. The study subjects comprised patients, their families, and medical staff A convenient sampling survey was conducted at two gardens within Taichung Veterans General Hospita and 338 valid questionnaires were obtained. This study employed a one-group pretest-posttest design. In the first stage, the subjects were asked how they feel about the existing garden in terms of restorative perception and perception of psychophysiological benefits; in the second stage, the subjects were requested to watch a photo of the simulated healing garden, and then report how they feel about the simulated garden in terms of restorative perception and perception of psychophysiological benefits. It was found that both the restorative perception and the perception of psychophysiological benefits were higher for the simulated healing garden than for the existing garden. The phenomena are especially significant in the cognitive aspect of fascination and perception of pressure mitigation. Moreover, users reported higher emotional and pressure mitigation effects when they had higher perception on “being away” and “compatibility” for the simulated healing garden. Based on the findings, it was suggested that in order to improve the perception of psychophysiological benefits for patients, their families, and medical staff, the characteristics of healing gardens should be integrated into the design of gardens in the medical institution. These characteristics include integrity, water features, diversity of planting, pathways with mysterious features, public and private spaces, accessibility and security, and appropriate outdoor facilities.
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Chang, Ping-Yao, and 張炳堯. "A Study of Principles in the Development of Restorative Garden Designs According to the Environmental Cognition Approach." Thesis, 2009. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/47cgwn.
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碩士國立臺北科技大學
建築與都市設計研究所
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During the process of environmental cognition, human beings accept, analyze, interpret, and memorize environmental information through the senses and the brain, developing a multilayer and diversified psychological structure. However, the mental ability and perception of environmental information of each individual are mainly restricted by preexisting concepts and knowledge. The designer’s concept of environmental planning is taken from the structure of his or her cognition of the design’s theme, building a spatial situation according to his or her conception. However, since the user’s cognition of the environment is established through subjective conscious reactions and awareness, there are significant differences between the two parties’ experiential process. Thus, the designer should express clearly the intention and the theme of the design, so that the environment becomes an interface for communication between the designer and the user. This is crucial to the field of user-subjects’ establishment of cognition. Nature in gardens is re-formed and presented with meaning, which implies the environments that human beings used to meet in the wilderness and nature. Environmental planners should develop their own cultivation while designing, and create restorative gardens that could ease users’ moods and awaken their sense perceptions through the interaction between the sense systems of human beings and the elements of natural landscapes. Combining with natural environments, the restorative gardens correspondingly construct the correlation between the subjects and environments, and further start the restorative mechanism of the subjects and bring purification to souls. By probing into the relationship between human beings and natural environments and the issues about sense perception and environmental cognition, the study concludes twenty design principles for restorative gardens, and derives four design factors to be the reference for environmental planners as follows: (a) the construction of the scale for self-cognitions, (b) the cultivation for creating natural environments, (c) the trend of transfiguring cues, and (d) the communication mode to fit in with different social statuses.
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Chan, Hsing-Chuan, and 詹幸娟. "A Design Study of Local Landscape Architecture Detail in Kinmen: A Case Study, Restorative Construction of Chen Jing-Lan Traditional & Western Style House and Garden." Thesis, 2007. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/78395201219958300641.
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園藝學研究所
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Abstract The research theme of this thesis is concerned with the relationship between the local architecture detail and the representation of landscape design in terms of culture geography, the design of landscape and globalization. Lots of design researches nowadays have explored the relationship between forms, formation and meanings, applying various theoretical discourse. However, there has long been a lack of related case study on the way of how architecture detail of Taiwan locality being used in localized landscape design and kinds of construction. As the influence of globalization and the development tendency of design industrialization has quickly spawned a wide range of similar, mass-produced standardized landscape, the government attempts to renovate the development features of local culture through “Townscape Renaissance Project”. Dividing landscape elements into six categories, namely landform, water, plant materials, pavement, site structures and buildings, this research explores how culture has been impacted on the transformation of Jin-Men landscape in historical context. By taking “Rebirth of Overseas Hometown and Battlefield ：A Landscape Preservation Design about Time and Memory” as the particular case, this thesis also records the patterns of design detail and construction process, as well as recognize the representative form of local landscape, which has been re-interpreted, through the phased interviews from planning to construction details. The issues studied and the anticipated results are intended to establish the cultural autonomy of local landscape design, explore how it will be used in various representations of landscape architecture detail and construction forms, as well as examine the way by which public projects achieve localized scenery through the process of localizing construction details.
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Rice, Rebecca Wyanne. "Georgia's historic gardens a proposal to develop a statewide tour to fund garden restoration and preservation projects /." 2002. http://purl.galileo.usg.edu/uga%5Fetd/rice%5Frebecca%5Fw%5F200205%5Fmhp.
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Barnes, Debra. "Healing gardens in healthcare facilities : linking restorative value and design features." Thesis, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/15414.
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For most of the previous century, the program and design of healthcare facilities
supported the dominant cure-based medical model of illness treatment. In the closing
decades of the twentieth century increasing interest in a holistic approach to patient care
that acknowledges a connection between mind, body and spirit supported the inclusion of
healing gardens in healthcare facilities.
Empirical evidence suggests that patient support requires the provision of access to nature
and outdoor spaces. If space in healthcare facilities is to be programmed for outdoor use,
what design features of this setting cares for patients, both psychologically and
emotionally while supporting their physiological needs? Further, does the therapeutic
benefit and significance of discrete garden features vary depending on the illness and
healing processes of a particular patient population?
This thesis begins to answer the above-noted questions by reviewing the literature on the
historical approach to patient care based both on documented anecdotal information and
as evidenced by the design of healthcare facilities and their adjacent outdoor spaces.
Current multi-disciplinary research and empirical evidence supporting the link between
nature and restorative benefit is also presented. Finally, the healing gardens supporting
three special patient populations (Alzheimer's, AHDS, and Pediatrics) are reviewed,
endeavoring to link specific design features to restorative value.
The result of this investigation is a matrix synthesizing the relative benefit of discrete
garden design features to specific patient populations. The matrix lists over fifty design
features of a healing garden and groups each feature into one of three categories:
experiential, functional, and contextual. In terms of restorative benefit, generally, the
matrix rates experiential design features as essential for all patient population types and
identifies contextual features as highly desirable. Variation in the importance of the
functional design features of a healing garden begins to emerge when considering the
particular needs of special patient populations. This study may be used to guide a design process for the provision of healing gardens in
a healthcare facility that recognizes both the therapeutically beneficial experiential design
features and significant contextual features of a healing garden, while acknowledging that
the functional characteristics of the garden will be informed by the needs of particular
user groups and special patient populations.
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Wang, I., and 王翌. "Restorative Perception and Psychological Benefits of Healing Gardens at Feng Chia University." Thesis, 2012. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/5jjkfy.
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碩士逢甲大學
景觀與遊憩碩士學位學程
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In this study, based on Kaplan & Kaplan (1989) restoration theoretical framework and landscape visual simulation techniques to control the characteristics of the physical environment, perception of the restorative environment of the Feng Chia University campus environment space were studied to explore the relationship between perception and psychological benefits. Select the Feng Chia University, Taking open space at 2nd administration Hall as study site, the study used single-group pretest and posttest design to find out the effect of attention fatigue recovery and relieve the pressure of emotions and life, and to explore the campus garden space complex the more the effectiveness. There were 404 student completed both pre and post test questionnaires. The overall results show that " fascination " (M= 3.50) had the highest mean score of. Measured before and after paired t-test comparison, the simulation of healing garden restorative environmental characteristics of the four dimensions are significantly improved. "Healing garden" simulation has more positive psychological benefits than " original open space", particularly in "emotion" (M= 2.10→M= 2.46) and "pressure" (M= 2.32→M= 2.46) components. In terms of regressional analysis, statistical results show that "Healing garden" simulation provide more explanation variance in restorative effect on both "emotion" (R2= 0.460) and "pressure" (R2= 0.432) psychological benefits. Furthermore, "being away", "extension", and "fascination" have significant influence on psychological benefits.
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Michaels, Rebecca Ann. "John Evelyn's "Elysium Britannicum" : transplanting the Baroque Italian garden to Restoration England." 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/1828/378.
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Kao, Wei-Lin, and 高維玲. "Meditation Experience, Attention Restoration, and Stress Reduction in Zen Gardens." Thesis, 2013. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/66890431846716297005.
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碩士國立勤益科技大學
景觀設計系
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Numerous studies have shown that the natural environment is beneficial to people’s wellbeing. Because gardens consist of natural elements, these settings can provide a place for the body and mind to recover from fatigue. People believe that Zen gardens are ideal locations for meditating and that these gardens provide areas that can calm their minds. Meditation is considered a complex, mysterious, and effective method of reducing stress. In a state of meditation, the brain produces alpha waves, and the high wave-vibration amplitude of the alpha waves indicates that the brain is relaxed. Japanese gardens, to inspect the effect of attention concentrating and pressure releasing. In addition, the differences between viewing Japanese Zen gardens and Western formal gardens are primarily discussed based on their effects on participant electroencephalograms (EEGs) and heart rate variability (HRV) results. Participant attention-restoration responses were measured according to the Gordon Diagnostic System (GDS) and the degree of stress reduction was measured according to the State Anxiety Inventory (S-AI). In addition, the study measured the EEGs and HRVs, obtained by convenience sampling, of participants who used iWorx instruments while they viewed slides of gardens. EEG analysis involved using brainwave power analysis, and the HRV, which was measured at intervals of 5 min, involved using frequency domain analysis. The results showed that viewing formal Western gardens containing green plants primarily provided the benefit of improved attention recovery and relaxation. In addition, the results showed that viewing Zen gardens was beneficial for calming mental states, steadying physiological responses, and relieving stress in the participants, which was supported by meditation exercises.
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Gervasio, Jennifer Eiben. "The politics of planting : gardening in England from the Restoration through the Glorious Revolution /." 2000. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:9965080.
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Tsai, Fu-Chuan, and 蔡富娟. "The Influence of Modes for Spatial Arrangement in Chinese Garden to Landscape Preference and Attention Restoration." Thesis, 2014. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/yj6343.
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碩士國立虎尾科技大學
休閒遊憩研究所
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Into the twenty-first century, "Pressure" is an important issue for the urban people in the highly development of civilization society, is whether or not people''s lives, an important indicator of happiness. In densely populated metropolitan space, hubbub bustle, tedious life, people often need a space which can self-relaxation, self-regulation, to restore life stress. Many past studies have confirmed that the natural environment has the effect of restoring people''s attention (Kaplan & Kaplan, 1989). But for now the hinterland of small urban parks and green space, like how to show the effect of the natural environment as the recovery, it is imperative in landscape planning, spatial design. Chinese gardens in the landscape changes, spatial conception, from ancient that is literati focussed, empathy and lyrical, there are right close by mountains, away from the hubbub of the effect. Kaplan & Kaplan (1989) proposed to the Attention Restore Theory of four restorative environmental characteristics, should have with its related . Therefore, the spatial arrangement in Chinese garden should be a space can introduce modern urban parks, especially in the hinterland of small neighborhood parks, green spaces ribbon design practices. The results showed that different Chinese garden landscaping practices, the viewer''s on the attention restoration factors and landscape preference factors were significantly different. And in the Chinese garden landscape, the landscape preference factors and attention restoration factors among relevant.
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Liu, Li-Ren, and 劉力仁. "A study on Restorative environment Perception and Emotional benefit of Healing Gardens - A Case of Taichung Veterans General Hospital." Thesis, 2015. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/bpe98q.
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碩士逢甲大學
景觀與遊憩碩士學位學程
103
Modern social change people at a busy life, hospital the past-oriented medical treatment model, insufficient to meet modern health. Patients, families and health care workers by healing garden improve mood health and welfare. This study cited Kaplan & Kaplan(1989)“restorative environment”and Ulrich(1983) “psychological theory” as the theoretical framework, through landscape simulation compare the original garden and healing garden restorative environment and emotional benefits difference, further study restorative environment to emotional benefits relationship. The study for Taichung important hospital conduct outdoor space base investigation, column fixed base site selection conditions, final selected Taichung Veterans General Hospital as the research base. The study sample is divided into direct contact with hospital users and the user not contacted the hospital, according to the survey results draw the following conclusions: (a) Healing garden restorative environment and emotional benefits average scores were higher than the original garden, whether in the sample on. (b) Healing garden difference analysis “being away” and “extent” and “emotional benefits” a significant difference, whether in the sample on. (c) Original garden no contact original sample can significantly influence emotional benefits is “extent” and “compatibility”. Emotional Benefits (R2 = 0.497), emotional space (R2 = 0.264), emotional emotional (R2 = 0.233), emotional reactions (R2 = 0.352). Original sample can significantly influence emotional benefits is “extent” and “compatibility”, but restorative environment failed to significantly affect “emotion emotional”. Emotional Benefits (R2 = 0.659), emotional space (R2 = 0.220), emotional emotional (R2 = 0.257), emotional reactions (R2 = 0.262). (d) Consummate garden no contact original sample can significantly influence emotional benefits is “extent” and “fascination” and “compatibility”, but “fascination” is negative significant influence. Emotional Benefits (R2 = 0.483), emotional space (R2 = 0.337), emotional emotional (R2 = 0.182), emotional reactions (R2 = 0.319). Original sample can significantly influence emotional benefits is “being away” and “fascination” and “compatibility”. Emotional Benefits (R2 = 0.569), emotional space (R2 = 0.330), emotional emotional (R2 = 0.364), emotional reactions (R2 = 0.339). (e) Meditation garden no contact original sample can significantly influence emotional benefits is “extent” and “fascination” and “compatibility”. Emotional Benefits (R2 = 0.518), emotional space (R2 = 0.315), emotional emotional (R2 = 0.445), emotional reactions (R2 = 0.434). Original sample can significantly influence emotional benefits is “being away” and “fascination” and “compatibility”, but restorative environment failed to significantly affect “emotional space”. Emotional Benefits (R2 = 0.615), emotional space (R2 = 0.307), emotional emotional (R2 = 0.524), emotional reactions (R2 = 0.463).
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Pappas, Angela Cain. "Exploring therapeutic restoration theories of nature and their application for design recommendations for an Alzheimer's garden at Wesley Woods Hospital." 2006. http://purl.galileo.usg.edu/uga%5Fetd/pappas%5Fangela%5Fc%5F200612%5Fmla.
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Park, Hyeone. "A model of food forestry and its monitoring framework in the context of ecological restoration." Thesis, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/1828/7689.
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Food forestry has grown in its popularity in Canada, the United States and the United Kingdom, which it has not been traditionally practiced before, for its potential to produce healthy food, to create habitat for wildlife species, to reconnect people with nature and to provide various ecosystem services such as carbon storage. Diverse food forest projects are conceived from urban food initiatives to integrated conservation and restoration planning. Currently, the Galiano Conservancy Association is creating two food forests in the heart of a mature Coastal Douglas-fir landscape on Galiano Island, British Columbia, which is protected under a conservation covenant, in pursuit of sustainable food production, education and contribution to ecological restoration and conservation efforts. To investigate the relationships between emerging food forestry and ecological restoration and to identify key indicators to measure best practices of food forestry in the context of ecological restoration, I conducted 16 semi-structured interviews with food forestry and ecological restoration experts. In addition, I conducted a workshop with the Conservancy stakeholders to develop a comprehensive and systematic monitoring framework for their food forest projects. My studies suggest that restoration principles and resilience thinking can provide guidelines for restorative food forestry. Food forestry may serve as an innovative restoration tool to restore urban landscapes where lack significant opportunities for conventional restoration. A generic monitoring framework for food forestry could be adapted by other projects, yet this will require the process of defining goals and objectives of a given project and assessing landscape contexts and the organization’s capacity to monitor.Graduate
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Murray, Kevin Charles. "Lockefield Gardens : perservation of New Deal public housing in Indianapolis." 2014. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/1747410.
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Lockefield Gardens was a 1936 Public Works Administration housing project for Indianapolis
blacks. This study analyzes the Lockefield Gardens historic preservation debate in the period of
1975 – 1985. The historical and descriptive overview of Lockefield Gardens provides a sense of
this unique place. The practical politics of historic preservation and the theory of § 106 review
are considered as they impacted the preservation/development controversy. Lastly, the lessons
learned from the Lockefield Gardens deliberations are offered to help improve historic
preservation efforts in the future. These include consideration of such factors as time, diversity
and political leadership. The conclusion offers suggestions for an improved memorialization of
Lockefield Gardens, as well as the proud and vibrant African American community that once
resided there.New Deal architecture and historic preservation -- Historical and descriptive overview of Lockefield Gardens -- Preservation/development efforts 1975-1985 -- The theory of [section] 106 review and the practical politics of preservation -- The lessons of Lockefield Gardens.
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Joseph, Leigh. "Finding our roots: ethnoecological restoration of lhasem (Fritillaria camschatcensis (L.) Ker-Gawl), an iconic plant food in the Squamish River Estuary, British Columbia." Thesis, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/1828/4190.
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Fritillaria camschatcensis L. Ker Gawl (Liliaceae), is a herbaceous flowering plant that grows in estuarine and subalpine habitats within its range from the northern limit in Alaska to its southern limit in western Oregon. This plant holds cultural significance in the Pacific Northwest as an important root vegetable that was cultivated in estuarine root gardens by many Indigenous Peoples. The bulbs of F. camschatcensis offered an important source of carbohydrates to a traditional diet that was high in protein, fats, oils and fibre. Lhásem is the Squamish name for F. camschatcensis, commonly known as northern riceroot, or chocolate lily.
The Squamish Nation is very interested in restoring traditional plant foods into the community along with the traditional knowledge linked to them. Lhásem is a plant that many Squamish people were interested in learning about, thus it was an excellent candidate for ethnoecological restoration. Ethnoecological restoration brings cultural context, practices and technologies together with contemporary ecological restoration approaches and offers culturally relevant ways to restore a plant to the landscape.
The east side of the Squamish Estuary, which borders the town of Squamish, has been impacted by a range of human-disturbances over the past century including: draining for agriculture, redirection of the Squamish River, dredging and the presence of industrial sites in close proximity to the estuary. All of these impacts have likely contributed to the decline of lhásem populations on the east side of the estuary. Through an ecological survey of the east and west sides of the Squamish Estuary I determined that the populations of F. camchatcensis are present and thriving on the west bank of the Squamish River. I collected vegetation and abiotic data and found that salinity is the most important abiotic factor affecting lhásem habitat. A logistic regression showed that salinity and the presence of lhásem are negatively correlated. Results of the vegetation data analysis indicated that Maianthemum dilatatum was an indicator for where lhásem is found growing on the west side of the Squamish Estuary and Aster subspicatus was the indicator for lhásem on the east. Lhásem restoration gardens were planted to explore the growth within one growing season across two restoration treatments, terrestrial sites and estuarine sites. The results indicate that terrestrial garden sites were more successful than estuarine garden sites and that whole bulbs were more successful than bulblets in the first year of growth. Through community interviews with elders, adults and youth, I documented the contemporary interests in the restoration of lhásem and found that the major interest of the community was focused on health, traditional food revitalization and knowledge renewal. I facilitated educational events in which Squamish Nation youth and community members learned about the plant and how to manage it in the Squamish Estuary gardens. Overall this research provides information for the future restoration of lhásem in the Squamish Estuary as well as a template to restore other culturally important plants.Graduate
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Waag, Carol. "The Lovely and the Wild: Considering Naumkeag." 2013. https://scholarworks.umass.edu/theses/1100.
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This paper investigates Fletcher Steele’s ideas about nature, and the fitness of gardens, in order to guide and support a reinvigoration of Naumkeag. Its aim is to highlight the protection of ecological resources while preserving aesthetic and historic integrity. This topic is particularly timely as The Trustees of Reservations are in the process of completing an extensive and unprecedented restoration plan, which will be carried out over the next five years. The Trustees have a long history of historic preservation and ecological conservation. This paper explores how these two aspects of their work can be integrated at Naumkeag, with particular attention to the undesigned portions of the site, such as the grasslands’ fen community. It illuminates how Steele’s original conception of the site, his environmental ethic, and his inspired design, can inform the adoption of original sustainable practices in the gardens, guide sensitive plant replacements, and enhance the visitor’s experience and knowledge.
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Pukonen, Jennifer C. "The λ’aayaʕas Project: Revitalizing Traditional Nuu-chah-nulth Root Gardens." Thesis, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1828/1216.
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The Nuu-chah-nulth and other First Nations of coastal British Columbia used to
maintain gardens of indigenous plants with edible roots on their estuarine tidal flats.
Tasty and nutritious, these roots were carefully tended and nurtured to enhance their
productivity and quality. Within the last century, the Nuu-chah-nulth diet has changed
significantly, and these indigenous root vegetables are not as well known. This
community-based action research project (The λ’aayaʕas Project) was suggested by
members of the Nuu-chah-nulth communities of Clayoquot Sound, as a way of
maintaining and strengthening traditional knowledge, cultural identity and ultimately,
community health and well-being through renewal of awareness of these and other
traditional foods. The λ’aayaʕas project engaged students and community members of all
ages in a diverse range of activities aimed at revitalizing the knowledge, skills and
cultural practices involved in caring for traditional root gardens. These activities have
included: hosting community steam-pit cooking events; learning from knowledgeable
community members; re-creating a root garden in the community of Ahousaht; and
implementing and observing the results of traditional management techniques on a root
garden plot at the Atleo River estuary. This thesis documents the development of this
community action research project and examines the role of ecocultural restoration
projects in providing opportunities to strengthen and facilitate the connection of youth to
their land and culture through experiential learning. Discussions incorporate a summary
of feedback and reflections on the project, and of the revitalization of traditional
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knowledge and practices locally, globally and in the future. In closing, I draw together
thoughts and ideas from local community members and others who recognize and hope to
revitalize the inextricable relationships between cultural and ecological health and
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Moreira, Vítor Miguel Cancelinha. "Os loteamentos e as nulidades urbanísticas." Master's thesis, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10316/85834.
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Dissertação de Mestrado em Direito: Especialidade em Ciências Juridico-Forenses apresentada à Faculdade de DireitoO direito do urbanismo, enquanto conjunto de princípios e regras vocacionadas essencialmente para a ocupação urbana do solo apresenta-se como um direito mutável, derivado das constantes necessidades populacionais de cada época. No presente trabalho pretendo demonstrar essa mutabilidade através da evolução de um dos seus institutos: os loteamentos urbanos. Essa evolução verifica-se, quer quanto à sua definição quer quanto às formas do seu controlo prévio, que se traduzem na prática de atos administrativos.Os atos administrativos de controlo prévio das operações de loteamento sempre foram objeto duma regulamentação específica, distinta daquela que o direito administrativo geral reserva para atos desta natureza, apesar da base deste regime ser o direito administrativo geral. Sendo por isso relevante comparar a regulamentação que o direito do urbanismo reserva aos atos administrativos de controlo prévio das operações de loteamento com aquela que o direito administrativo geral reserva aos atos administrativos em geral, especificamente em matéria (in)validade de tais atos.A aprovação, em 2015, de um novo Código do Procedimento Administrativo, e as novidades nele introduzidas no regime da validade dos atos administrativos comprova a importância do direito do urbanismo, uma vez que foi este que introduziu inovadoramente um “regime misto” de nulidade que agora é assumido por aquele código, regime esse que, como se irá ver neste estudo, tenta suavizar um regime tradicionalmente radical e severo.Aproveitaremos a situação do loteamento urbano “Jardins do Mondego” cuja licença foi declarada nula para, a partir dela, demonstrarmos os problemas que a declaração de nulidade de atos administrativos coloca na prática.
Urban planning law consists of a set of principles and rules, in this case directed in this case to the territorial planning, encompassing here the town planning and the environment, and as such, we will see that it is a mutable right, derived from the constant population needs of each time, being that. With this study we intend to show that same mutation, demonstrating it’s evolution, namely with regard to it’s definition over time, as well as it’s respective forms of prior control, since they are translated into administrative acts.These administrative acts of prior control of the land allotment operations have always been subject of specific regulations, different from those that general administrative law reserves for acts of such nature, although it is in the general administrative law that the regime of this form of action has its basis. Therefore it is relevant to form a comparison between the legislation that the urban planning law reserves to administrative acts of prior control of allotment operations and that which general administrative law reserves to administrative acts in general, specifically as regards the (in)validity of such acts.The recent adoption of a new Code of Administrative Procedure and the innovations introduced in the system of validity of administrative acts prove the importance of urban planning law in this context, since it was it that introduced an innovative "mixed regime" of nullity which is now adopted by that code, as will be seen in this study, a regime that attempts to soften a tradition that is traditionally radical and severe.We will take advantage of the situation of the urban development "Jardins do Mondego" – whose license was declared null and void – to demonstrate the problems that the declaration of nullity of administrative acts puts into practice.