Title: The lawn revisited: awareness education and culture as public policies toward sustainable lawns

Abstract: 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. [Yaoqi Zhang, Bin Zheng, Ge Sun & Peilei Fan (2015). The American Lawn Revisited: Awareness Education and Culture as Public Policies Toward Sustainable Lawn. Problems of Sustainable Development, 10(1), 107-115] Comment

Keywords: grass, American culture, conspicuous consumption, industrialisation, urbanisation, pollution, aesthetics, landscaping

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Article: WeedsNews5312 (permalink)
Categories: :WeedsNews:research alert, :WeedsNews:landscape design, :WeedsNews:lawns, :WeedsNews:pollution
Date: 20 February 2015; 2:36:56 pm Australian Eastern Daylight Time

Author Name: David Low
Author ID: adminDavid