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Green Care Practices and Place-Based Sustainability Transformations : A Participatory Action-Oriented Study in Finland.

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正題名/作者:	Green Care Practices and Place-Based Sustainability Transformations : A Participatory Action-Oriented Study in Finland./
作者:	Moriggi, Angela.
出版者:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2021,
面頁冊數:	206 p.
附註:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 83-05, Section: B.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International83-05B.
標題:	Agriculture. -
電子資源:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=28760884
ISBN:	9798494449030

Green Care Practices and Place-Based Sustainability Transformations : A Participatory Action-Oriented Study in Finland.
Moriggi, Angela.

Green Care Practices and Place-Based Sustainability Transformations : A Participatory Action-Oriented Study in Finland. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2021 - 206 p.

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 83-05, Section: B.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Wageningen University and Research, 2021.

This item must not be sold to any third party vendors.

This thesis provides insight into the field of place-based practices and their contribution to processes of transformative change. It does so by exploring three in-depth case studies under the umbrella of Green Care in Finland. Each case featured communities of Green Care practitioners who offer well-being, social inclusion, recreation, and pedagogical activities in contact with nature. The research process was framed by broader discussions around sustainability transformations which are understood as radical changes in development trajectories (at all scales) away from 'business as usual' and towards sustainability. In both my research design and my fieldwork, I applied a relational lens to interrogate two concepts that are frequently used to explicate change processes: (1) change agency (and social entrepreneurship in particular); and, (2) place-based practices. In the arena of change agency, the relational lens shed light on the dimension of values, emotions, and worldviews; in place-based practices, it highlighted the dynamics that enmesh people, place, and practices, as well as the role of place-based resources in the process of change.Green Care can be seen as an alternative to traditional health care models and as way to promote rural development and agricultural innovation. The literature has widely investigated the benefits of Green Care in terms of well-being and social reintegration for different target groups, including people with mental and physical disabilities, vulnerable children, demented elderly, recovering addicts, long-term unemployed, offenders serving community orders, and refugees. Several scholars also consider Green Care, and in particular care and social farming, as promising examples of multifunctional agriculture with potential to contribute to the transition of European rural areas from an agriculture-based to a service-based economy. Research shows that care and social farming initiatives may support the re-organization of local economies around principles of solidarity, reciprocity, and inclusiveness. Against this background, the initial exploratory phase of this research project revealed two major gaps inviting further investigation. First, the 'inner dimension of sustainability' of Green Care practitioners was conspicuously missing, specifically in terms of the ethical and emotional motives fuelling their change agency and their commitment to care for both humans and non-humans. Second, there was little information about the role of place embeddedness and how it can enable or constrain the development of Green Care practices in different contexts, and in turn, how it can contribute to the process of envisioning different pathways of placebased sustainability. This thesis addresses these gaps by employing an in-depth qualitative approach which engaged three Finnish case studies: a care farm, a biodynamic farm, and a nature-tourism company. The primary research question is: What is the significance of Green Care practices for processes of place-based sustainability transformations?

ISBN: 9798494449030Subjects--Topical Terms:

518588
Agriculture.

Green Care Practices and Place-Based Sustainability Transformations : A Participatory Action-Oriented Study in Finland.
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