HUMAN-HORTICULTURE RELATIONSHIPS IN NORTH AND SOUTH AMERICA

Plants have been used to benefit humans in the Americas for as long as there have been people in the Americas.
Formal research on the impacts of plants on people was not published until the 1970’s, when papers from social and medical scientists began appearing.
In the 1990’s, symposiums, including the first on "The Role of Horticulture in Human Well-Being and Social Development", brought people from around the world together to share and expand their knowledge in this emerging field.
Symposium participants have included researchers in the social sciences and plant sciences, practitioners in horticultural therapy, teachers in colleges and public gardens, business representatives applying the knowledge, and more.
This has formed the basis for current activities in research, teaching, and practice throughout the Americas.
Examples from research that now documents a variety of beneficial impacts of plants on people are discussed.

XXV International Horticultural Congress, Part 13: New and Specialized Crops and Products, Botanic Gardens and Human-Horticulture Relationship

V.I. Lohr

human-horticulture relationships, human issues in horticulture, people-plant interaction, sociohorticulture, horticulture and behavior, benefits of plants, human well-being, psychological well-being, human health, stress reduction, interior air quality, research, North America, South America, nature, response to nature, perceptions of nature, plants, interior plants, foliage plants, ornamental plants

https://doi.org/10.17660/ActaHortic.2000.523.14