Green Harvest

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rebecca Jones
Keyword(s):  
Human Health ◽  
Organic Farming ◽  
Natural Environment ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Dairy Farmers ◽  
Self Sufficiency ◽  
The World ◽  
Back To The Land ◽  
Organic Gardening

Green Harvest explores the ideas and practices that have shaped organic farming and gardening in Australia from the interwar years to the present day. It reveals that Australian organic farming and gardening societies were amongst the first in the world, being active as early as the 1940s. In what way does human health depend upon the natural environment? Green Harvest traces this idea through four themes of Australian organic farming and gardening – soil, chemical free, ecological well-being and back to the land – each illustrated with a case study profiling an Australian organic farmer or gardener. Personalities in Australian organic gardening, such as Jackie French and Peter Bennett, talk about organic growing. The book also features extracts from early organic magazines and interviews with current organic growers, including banana and macadamia farmers, managers of outback sheep stations, dairy farmers and self-sufficiency gardeners. All of these tell the story of Australian organic farming and gardening: past, present and future.

scholarly journals Conserve My Village—Finnish, Norwegian and Swedish Students’ Valued Landscapes and Well-Being

2022 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 671
Author(s):  
Eija Yli-Panula ◽  
Eila Jeronen ◽  
Eila Matikainen ◽  
Christel Persson
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Human Health ◽  
Natural Environment ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Aquatic Environments ◽  
Natural Landscapes ◽  
Content Analyses ◽  
Mountain Landscapes ◽  
Health And Well Being

In the context of landscape, both the natural environment and the built environment can be linked with human health and well-being. This connection has been studied among adults, but no research has been conducted on young people. To fill this gap, this case study aimed to elucidate students’ views on landscapes worth conserving and the landscapes that affect and support their well-being. The participants (n = 538) were Finnish, Norwegian and Swedish students from grades 3–6. The students drew the landscapes they wanted to conserve. The drawn landscapes and the welfare-supporting features they contained were analysed using inductive and abductive content analyses. The students from all three countries preferred water, forest and yard landscapes. In the drawings of natural landscapes, the most recurring themes were sunrise or sunset, forest, beach and mountain landscapes. Physical well-being was manifested in the opportunity to jog and walk. Social well-being was reflected in the presence of friends, relatives and animals. Therapeutically important well-being-related spaces—the so-called green (natural areas), blue (aquatic environments) and white (e.g., snow) areas—were also depicted in the participants’ drawings. It can be concluded that the drawn landscapes reflect several values that promote students’ well-being.

Tourists in the garden; human health and happiness and the semiotics of garden visiting.

2021 ◽  
pp. 81-97
Author(s):  
Richard W. Benfield
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Human Health ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Botanical Garden ◽  
Research Area ◽  
Human Species ◽  
Five Senses ◽  
Health And Well Being

Abstract In this chapter the motivations of garden visiting are explored at a deeper level, into the realm of psychology and psychological drivers to gardens. This research area is called "semiotics". It is suggested that examination of the five senses would be a major indicator of semiotics as much of what a tourist experiences or displays would be recorded through the five human senses. Moreover, the five senses lead to a realization of happiness which is what tourism seeks and indeed what the human species ultimately wishes. A case study is presented of semiotics research conducted in the Queens Botanical Garden, Flushing, New York, USA. The literature that links gardens (and gardening) to human health and well-being is also reviewed.

scholarly journals Vulnerabilities of wheat crop farmers in war zone

Food Research ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 427-439
Author(s):  
A.N. Stanikzai ◽  
F. Ali ◽  
N.H. Kamarulzaman
Keyword(s):  
Psychological Effects ◽  
Wheat Crop ◽  
Food Crop ◽  
Case Study Approach ◽  
Study Approach ◽  
War Zone ◽  
Self Sufficiency ◽  
The World ◽  
Production Industry

Wheat is the staple food crop in Afghanistan and maintaining its production plays important role in ensuring food security and food self-sufficiency. Wheat and its products are accounted for almost 60% to 75% of calories intake. However, being a country that has been facing war since 1978, it has been challenging for the wheat production industry to maintain its production to feed its people. Hence, the purpose of this study is to investigate wheat crop industry players’ vulnerabilities in the production of the wheat crop in a prolonged war zone. The study is conducted through the case study approach. Required data was collected through interviews, observations and documents which was analyzed through thematic analysis. This study found that in addition to the normal vulnerabilities/issues faced by the wheat crop industry players in the world, the players in the war zone have to face psychological effects, and financial corruption as well.

scholarly journals Investigation of environment waste resultant from incorrect excretion of stock car rubbers and determination quantity, a current situation and fate of them (a case study: Ahvaz, Iran)

2015 ◽  
Vol 37 ◽  
pp. 260
Author(s):  
Mohsen Eslami ◽  
Farzaneh Fakeri Raof ◽  
Mohammad Jorjor Zadeh
Keyword(s):  
Automobile Industry ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Healthy Environment ◽  
The Earth ◽  
The World ◽  
In The Wild ◽  
Natural Equilibrium ◽  
Equilibrium Growth ◽  
A Current

A healthy environment is an absolute necessity for the well-being of all governments' policy. The population on the earth is expanding rapidly which goes hand in hand in the degradation of the environment at large measures. The human’s appetites for needs are disarranging the environments natural equilibrium. Growth of automobile industry in the world due to dignity to the parallel with increasing the production of rubber in the world. So increasing the disposal of worn tires is one of the world's great challenges. Annually, large amount of rubbers in the world is prepared. The rubber used in normal conditions can't be easily decomposed and make environmental pollution. This study was performed in Ahvaz metropolitan. The information in this study was achieved by questionnaire were asked of 40 shops, who was activated in the tire field. After this research revealed turned out about 300 shops were activated in the field of tires at the time of this study(2014), Also revealed 2700 tire rings out of cycle per day in Ahvaz .in this study (68%) questionnaire, believed that the tires after release from the workshop are collected by badger. (22%) believed that collected by municipal. Also (7%) of questionnaire believed that they didn't have any information about the release tires. At least only (3%) believed that himself collect damaged tires in their workshops. The application of the tire after collection in the idea of responded following: 15 person of questionnaire believe the tires sold after release from the workshop. 9 person said tires left in the wild. 8 persons believed that tires buried in a special place, Also 6 persons of questionnaire believed that tires are getting burned. At the end 2 persons of questionnaire believed that they don't know the fate of tires. At least some of the environmental hazards caused by incorrect tire were buried as were recommendation to improve.

scholarly journals God’s health and human health: A proposal for the world of well-being

2011 ◽  
Vol 67 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Harold Ellens
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Human Health ◽  
Mental Image ◽  
Well Being ◽  
The Other ◽  
The World

This article reflects on people’s presuppositions with regard to God’s mental health as it has been recounted throughout history. The article asserts that the dominant report of a ‘sick god’ has nothing to do with God at all, but is, instead, the manifestation of a sick projection of people who are terrified of the unknown and the unpredictable in life. Such a projection reflects their own fears, which they project upon their own mental image of the mentor who they thought was God. The other, sound, report on God’s mental health has encountered many difficulties in competing with the dominant report. The alternative report has met with much resistance, because it seems so humanly unbelievable, in its claim that God is a God of unconditional grace to all humankind.

scholarly journals The marine biology of law and human health

2015 ◽  
Vol 96 (1) ◽  
pp. 19-27
Author(s):  
Thomas Appleby ◽  
Susan Kinsey ◽  
Benedict Wheeler ◽  
Emma Cunningham
Keyword(s):  
Human Health ◽  
Biomedical Research ◽  
Patent Protection ◽  
Marine Pollution ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Marine Conservation ◽  
Potential Health ◽  
Unsuccessful Attempt ◽  
The Us

This review uses a multidisciplinary approach to investigate legal issues concerning the oceans and human health. It firstly seeks to define the boundaries of oceans and human health research. We use three case studies as examples: biomedical research, marine litter and human well-being. Biomedical research raises complex issues relating to coastal states’ sovereign rights to exploit their marine resources and the patenting processes. Coastal states have differing degrees of control over research at sea. There are differences in EU and US law over the status of genetic discoveries, with the US having stricter criteria to qualify for patent protection. International law sets the standard for bioprospecting in developing countries under the Nagoya Protocol. The cost and complexity of marine biomedical research mean that it cannot be left to commercial exploration and needs some public funding. The second case study highlights the rise in marine plastics pollution using Marine Conservation Society beachwatch data. It details the need to alter product design to avoid marine pollution and records an unsuccessful attempt by academics and an NGO to make contact with the manufacturers of one polluting product. It also introduces the concept that faulty design could amount to a public nuisance. The third case study highlights the potential health benefits from access to the coast and the statutory responsibility which sits with the US and UK authorities in the provision of well-being. It posits that there needs to be greater inter-agency coordination to promote access to the coast for human well-being.

scholarly journals Corporate Well-Being Programme in COVID-19 Times. The Mahou San Miguel Case Study

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (11) ◽  
pp. 6189
Author(s):  
José M. Núñez-Sánchez ◽  
Ramón Gómez-Chacón ◽  
Carmen Jambrino-Maldonado ◽  
Jerónimo García-Fernández
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Data Collection ◽  
Mixed Method ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Negative Consequences ◽  
The World ◽  
New Situation ◽  
Method Approach

Employees’ health is being affected not only by the possibility of contracting COVID-19, but by all the negative consequences that this pandemic has brought, such as confinement, social distancing, and self-isolation. In recent decades, more companies have opted for corporate well-being programmes in their workplaces, improving the health and quality of life of their employees. The effects generated by the current COVID-19 pandemic require these programmes to adapt to this new situation. The objective of this case study is to analyse the corporate well-being programme, in times of COVID-19, of Mahou San Miguel, a benchmark company in corporate well-being in Spain. A mixed method approach to data collection was used. The findings show the benefits achieved in its adaptation to this new physical-virtual environment. This paper could help other companies around the world to adapt their corporate well-being programmes to the new reality brought about by COVID-19.

Tourists in the garden; human health and happiness and the semiotics of garden visiting.

2021 ◽  
pp. 81-97
Author(s):  
Richard W. Benfield
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Human Health ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Botanical Garden ◽  
Research Area ◽  
Human Species ◽  
Five Senses ◽  
Health And Well Being

Abstract In this chapter the motivations of garden visiting are explored at a deeper level, into the realm of psychology and psychological drivers to gardens. This research area is called "semiotics". It is suggested that examination of the five senses would be a major indicator of semiotics as much of what a tourist experiences or displays would be recorded through the five human senses. Moreover, the five senses lead to a realization of happiness which is what tourism seeks and indeed what the human species ultimately wishes. A case study is presented of semiotics research conducted in the Queens Botanical Garden, Flushing, New York, USA. The literature that links gardens (and gardening) to human health and well-being is also reviewed.

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