Links

This page provides some basic information about organizations and research that we look to for guidance, insights and deeper understanding. This is list is not meant to be all-inclusive and represents one that is constantly changing. Due to copyright issues, we are not able to furnish the actual reports and journal articles. If you have links that you would like to share with us and have us include on this site, please send us a note at jill.litt@ucdenver.edu

• Local and state organizations
  Denver Urban Gardens
  FrontRange Earth Force
  Groundwork Denver
  Denver Department of Environmental Health
  The Piton Foundation
  Kaiser Permanente
  LiveWell Colorado
  Colorado Department of Environment and Public Health
• National organizations
  The Prevention Institute
  Healthy Eating Active Living Convergence Partnership
  The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Division of Nutrition, Physical Activity and Obesity
  National Center for Environmental Health
  Office of Public Health Research - Health Protection Research Initiative
  The National County and City Health Officials (NACCHO)
  
  Seminal Articles and Reports
  Gardens-Related Research

• Alaimo K, Packnett E, Miles RA, Kruger DJ:
  Fruit and vegetable intake among urban community gardeners.
  Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior 40: 2010

• Armstrong, D. (2000).
  A survey of community gardens in upstate New York: Implications for health promotion and community development.
  Health and Place, 6, 319-327.

• Blair D, Giesecke CC, Sherman S:
  A dietary, social and economic evaluation of the Philadelphia Urban Gardening Project.
  Journal of Nutrition Education 23:161-167, 1991

• Glover, T.D. (2004).
  Social Capital in the Lived Experiences of Community Gardeners.
  Leisure Science, 26, 143-162.

• Hynes HP: A Patch of Eden:
  America's Inner-City Gardeners.
  White River Junction, Chelsea Green Publishers, 1996

• Kaplan R:
  Some Psychological Benefits of Gardening.
  Environment and Behavior 5:145-161, 1973

• Milligan C, Gatrell A, Bingley A:
  Cultivating Health: Therapeutic landscapes and older people in northern England.
  Social Science and Medicine 58:1781-1793, 2004

• Teig E, Amulya J, Buchenau M, Bardwell L, Marshall J, Litt JS:
  Collective efficacy in Denver, Colorado: Strengthening neighborhoods and health through community gardens.
  Health and Place 15:1115-1122, 2009

Nearby Nature and Green Space

• Kaplan R, Kaplan S:
  The Experience of Nature: A Psychological Perspective.
  New York, Cambridge Press, 1989

• Kuo FE, Sullivan WC, Coley RL, Brunson L:
  Fertile Ground for Community: Inner-City Neighborhood Common Spaces.
  American Journal of Community Psychology 26:823-851, 1998

• Kweon, B.S., Sullivan, W.C., Wiley, A.R. (1998).
  Green Common Spaces and the Social Integration of Inner-City Older Adults.
  Environment & Behavior, 30, 832-858.

• Lewis, C.A. (1996). Green Nature/Human Nature:
  The Meaning of Plants in Our Lives.
  Chicago, IL: University of Illinois Press.

• Foster J:
  Environmental Aesthetics, Ecological Action and Social Justice. In Emotion, Place and Culture.
  Smith M, Davidson J, Cameron L, Bondi L, Eds. Burlington, VT, Ashgate, 2009, p. 97-114

• Brown B, Perkins D, Brown G:
  Place attachment in a revitalizing neighborhood: Individual and block levels of analysis.
  Journal of Environmental Psychology 23:259-271, 2003

• Manzo L, Perkins D:
  Finding common ground: The importance of place attachment to community participation and planning.
  Journal of Planning Literature 20:335-350, 2006

• Kawachi, I., Kennedy, B.P., Glass, R. (1999).

Social capital and self-rated health: a contextual analysis.
American Journal of Public Health, 89, 1187-1193.
• Subramanian, S.V., Kim, D.J., Kawachi, I. (2002).
  
Social trust and self-rated health in US communities: a multilevel analysis.
J Urban Health, 79, S21-S34.
• Sampson, R.J., Raudenbush, S.W., Earls, F. (1997).

Neighborhoods and violent crime: a multilevel study of collective efficacy.
Science, 277, 918-924.
• Browning, C.R. and Cagney, K.A. (2002).
  Neighborhood structural disadvantage, collective efficacy, and self-rated health in an urban setting.
  J. Health & Social Behavior, 43, 383-399.

• Cohen, D.A., Inagami, S., Finch, B. (2010).
  The built environment and collective efficacy.
  Health & Place, 14, 198-208.

• Cohen, D.A., Finch, B., Bower, A., and Sastry, N. (2006).
  Collective efficacy and obesity: The potential influence of social factors on health.
  Social Science & Medicine, 62, 769-778.

  Healthy Communities and Public Health: Policy

• Srinivasan S, O'Fallon LR, Dearry A:
  Creating Healthy Communities, Healthy Homes, Healthy People: Initiating a Research Agenda on the Built Environment and Public Health.
  Am J Public Health 93:1446-1450, 2003

• Recommended Community Strategies and Measurements to Prevent Obesity in the United States

• Healthy Eating Active Living Convergence Partnership, Strategies for Enhancing the Built Environment to Support Healthy Eating and Active Living
• The Prevention Institute, The Built Environment and Health: 11 Profiles of Neighborhood Transformation
  
• The Prevention Institute, Cultivating Common Ground: Linking Health and Sustainable Agriculture September 2004.
  
• The Prevention Institute, Strengthening Communities: A Prevention Framework for Eliminating Health Disparities

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