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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : électronique
Auteur(s) : Boukharaeva, Louiza M.
Marloie, Marcel
Titre(s) : Family Urban Agriculture in Russia [Texte électronique] : Lessons and Prospects / by Louiza M. Boukharaeva, Marcel Marloie
Publication : Cham : Springer International Publishing : Springer e-books : Imprint: Springer, 2015
Description matérielle : 1 online resource
Collection : Urban Agriculture
Note(s) : A significant phenomenon that affects nearly two-thirds of Russian city-dwellers,
family urban agriculture - with its allotment gardens, allotment vegetable gardens,
and dacha allotments - grew out of a unique history and cultural representations.
The contemporary Urban Grower in Russia holds a legacy of the famines and traumatisms
of the Second World War, which prompted Soviet authorities to encourage the development
of allotments and gardening education, which they had previously opposed. The school
system gave Urban Growers a literary education that connects working the soils and
working plants with beauty, the good life, and culture. Urban Growers have won the
right to build a small house on their garden plots to make a place for holidays that
enlarge their living space. The allotment gardens of Russia are the most developed
sign of a rhizome that extends over the neighbouring countries of Asia and a large
portion of Europe. Its history and current forms are different from the allotments
of Western Europe. But some similarities are identifiable. The similarities observed
suggest a possible common future, insofar as the Russian experience conveys universal
teachings. It opens the way for thinking of an alternative to the single-family house
that is accused of polluting and destroying the soil. It shows the possibility of
reorganising the use of urban and periurban soils to increase the resilience to crises
in terms of food security and resistance to emotional and psychological stress. It
questions the representations of the international community on integral human habitat
by showing how people need immediate, direct, and active contact with nature. This
experience offers many useful references for resolving common problems of the major
cities in the world: food security, poverty, violence, environmental issues, and housing
crises. Interrupted for almost a century, a new international scientific dialogue
including the Urban Grower of Russia can become established on these subjects, which
are decisive for the future of a definitively urban world
Sujet(s) : Sciences de la vie
Aménagement du territoire
Agriculture
Développement durable
Politique sociale
Écologie urbaine
Indice(s) Dewey :
630 (23e éd.) = Agronomie, agriculture et techniques connexes
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9783319116143
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb446777004
Notice n° :
FRBNF44677700
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