Articles
RE-DISCOVERING HORTICULTURE: AN EXPLORATION FROM PLANT PRODUCTION TO SOCIAL CAPITAL
Article number
817_21
Pages
209 – 216
Language
English
Abstract
Horticulture is a term that evokes images of plants and gardening for those people working in the horticulture industry.
For the general public and government policy makers at local, national and international levels the term is not completely understood nor is the impact that horticulture has on human activities been fully appreciated. Horticulture has and will always exist as a matrix of inter-relating areas with overlapping and complex relationships.
However, modern mass communication requires a simple message presented in a language that is easily understood and immediately accepted by the public and government policy makers.
To this end a number of areas of interest within horticulture were examined to clarify and define their scope.
For the general public and government policy makers at local, national and international levels the term is not completely understood nor is the impact that horticulture has on human activities been fully appreciated. Horticulture has and will always exist as a matrix of inter-relating areas with overlapping and complex relationships.
However, modern mass communication requires a simple message presented in a language that is easily understood and immediately accepted by the public and government policy makers.
To this end a number of areas of interest within horticulture were examined to clarify and define their scope.
Authors
O.P.E. Doyle, Y. Kelleher
Keywords
horticultural therapy, therapeutic horticulture, social horticulture
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