The American Lawn Revisited: Awareness Education and Culture as Public Policies Toward Sustainable Lawn

Zhang, Y.; Zheng, B.; Sun, G.; Fan, P.

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The American Lawn Revisited: Awareness Education and Culture as Public Policies Toward Sustainable Lawn

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Zhang Y. , Zheng B. , Sun G. , Fan P.

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Amerykańskie trawniki z bliska: świadomość, edukacja i kultura jako motywy polityki publicznej prowadzącej w kierunku zrównoważoności

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Lawn has been used for landscaping, gardening, and beautification of homes and cities for a long time. The evolution of the lawn reflects important cultural and biophysical interactions between humans and nature. The American lawn, which was from Europe and has been a part of the American dream for home ownership and culture, has become an area going against nature for its extensively using chemicals and generated pollutions. Tracing how the lawn is becoming an important part of culture, this article focuses on more recent pollution and other environmental problems resulted from the lawn culture. It is argued, that awareness, education and changing culture of taste and preference can serve additional measures together with law and technological advancement toward sustainable lawn in the United States and the world.

Trawnik już o dawna był używany w kształtowaniu krajobrazu, ogrodnictwie i upiększaniu domów. Ewolucja trawników odzwierciedla istotne kulturowe i biofizyczne interakcje pomiędzy ludźmi i przyrodą. Trawnik trafił do Ameryki z Europy i stał się częścią amerykańskiego snu o własności i kulturze domu. Później stał się on jednak obszarem przeciwstawiającym się naturze z uwagi na intensywnie stosowanie substancji chemicznych i generowanie zanieczyszczeń. Wykazując, w jaki sposób trawnik staje się ważną częścią kultury, ten artykuł skupia się na bardziej aktualnych kwestiach zanieczyszczeń i innych problemów środowiskowych. Wykształcenie świadomości, zmieniającą się kultura smaku i preferencje, łącznie z prawem i technologią, mogą stanowić dodatkowe środki prowadzące w kierunku zrównoważonego kształtowania trawników w Stanach Zjednoczonych i na świecie.

Słowa kluczowe

grass American culture conspicuous consumption industrialization urbanization pollution aesthetics landscaping

trawa amerykańska kultura demonstracyjna kultura industrializacja urbanizacja zanieczyszczenie estetyka krajobraz

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Lublin University of Technology

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Problemy Ekorozwoju

Rocznik

2015

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Vol. 10, nr 1

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107--115

Opis fizyczny

Bibliogr. 57 poz., fig., tab.

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Zhang Y.

zhangy3@auburn.edu

International Center for Ecology, Meteorology and Environment (IceMe), School of Applied Meteorology, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing, Jiangsu 210044, China; School of Forestry and Wildlife Sciences, Auburn, AL 36849-5418, USA

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Zheng B.

Zhengbin512@gmail.com

College of Economics and Management, Nanjing Forestry University, 159 Longpan Road, Nanjing, Jiangsu, 210037, China

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Sun G.

gesun@fs.fed.us

USDA Forest Service Southern Research Station, Raleigh, NC 27606, USA

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Fan P.

fanpeile@msu.edu

School of Planning, Design & Construction (SPDC) and Center for Global Change and Earth Observations (CGCEO), Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824, USA

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