Parks in public parking : empowering community members to reintegrate nature into the city

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This research explores how community leaders could use Corbett’s Spectrum\nof Environmental Ideologies (2006) to analyze the ideologies of communication\ncampaigns before adopting one into a community. In this research, a mixed age\nclass of elementary students and local artisans created two “parks” in public\nparking spaces and participated in an arts contest in Nelson, BC. This action\nresearch used analytic coding to reflect on participants’ relationship with nature\nbased on their response to: international Park(ing) Day and Transition Nelson.\nAdditionally, participant recommendations for greening Nelson’s downtown core\nwere compared with four models of social change for generating ecocentric\nsolutions. Ecocentric solutions stem from the belief that humans and nature are\ninterdependent. Found to be key were nurturing participants’ nascent ecocentric\nvalues and investigating the campaign materials deeply. Additionally building\nmotivation, exploring alternatives, pr

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