نتایج جستجو برای: gardening management

تعداد نتایج: 853681  

Journal: :Environmental Health Perspectives 1998
I S Weidner H Møller T K Jensen N E Skakkebaek

Cryptorchidism and hypospadias have been related to prenatal estrogen exposure in animal models. Some chemicals used in farming and gardening have been shown to possess estrogenic and other hormone-disrupting effects. Earlier studies have indicated increased risks of urogenital malformations in the sons of pesticide appliers. In the present study, parental occupation in the farming and gardenin...

2017
Jill S. Litt Jeffrey Richard Lambert Deborah H. Glueck

This study examined whether gardening modifies the association between age and body mass index (BMI). We used data from the Neighborhood Environments and Health Survey, which was conducted in Denver (N = 469) between 2006 and 2007. We fit two general linear mixed models. The base model had BMI in kg/m2 as the outcome, and age, an indicator variable for non-gardening status and the age-by-non-ga...

Journal: :Frontiers in sustainable food systems 2022

In this paper we explore how policy discourses on urban sustainability impact the governing of food gardening in favoring community gardens. Our main hypothesis is that gardens better accommodate tensions created by compact and green city compared to other types gardening, especially allotment context Swiss cities Lausanne Zurich, analysis documents confirms identifying four frames orient polic...

Journal: :PORTAL Journal of Multidisciplinary International Studies 2016

2005
Colin Campbell

This article proposes that social scientists should explicitly recognize the existence of consumers who engage in ‘craft consumption’ and, hence, of an additional image of the consumer to set alongside those of ‘the dupe’,‘the rational hero’ and the ‘postmodern identity-seeker’. The term ‘craft’ is used to refer to consumption activity in which the ‘product’ concerned is essentially both ‘made ...

Journal: :Appetite 2015
Jayne Hutchinson Meaghan Sarah Christian Charlotte Elizabeth Louise Evans Camilla Nykjaer Neil Hancock Janet Elizabeth Cade

Involvement of children in gardening has the potential to increase liking of fruit and vegetables (FV) and consequently, intake, but research results are mixed. School gardening led by external specialists such as the Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) could have more impact than teacher-led gardening on children's knowledge of, and attitudes towards, FV. Data from a cluster randomised controlle...

2015
Baruch Rinkevich

The continuous degradation of coral reef ecosystems on a global level, the disheartening expectations of a gloomy future for reefs’ statuses, the failure of traditional conservation acts to revive most of the degrading reefs and the understanding that it is unlikely that future reefs will return to historic conditions, all call for novel management approaches. Among the most effective approache...

Journal: :Journal of aging and physical activity 2012
Tuo-Yu Chen Megan C Janke

This study examines whether participation in gardening predicts reduced fall risk and performance on balance and gait-speed measures in older adults. Data on adults age 65 and older (N = 3,237) from the Health and Retirement Study and Consumption and Activities Mail Survey were analyzed. Participants who spent 1 hr or more gardening in the past week were defined as gardeners, resulting in a tot...

2013
Jemma L. Hawkins Jenny Mercer Kathryn J. Thirlaway Deborah A. Clayton

The purpose of this study was to investigate the benefits to health and well-being of allotment gardening (in Wales, UK) in a communitydwelling older adult sample, with a particular emphasis on stress recovery. Semi-structured interviews were used to explore allotment gardener participants’ personal beliefs and ideas of the benefits of their allotment gardening activity. The transcribed intervi...

2014
Scott D. Wright Amy Maida Wadsworth

Over fourteen years ago, the concept of "gray and green" was first introduced by Wright and Lund (2000) to represent a new awareness and a call for increased scholarship at the intersection of environmental issues and the aging process. This review paper revisits that concept with a fresh perspective on the specific role of gardens and gardening in the aging experience. As example, gardening is...

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