Published in Scientific Papers. Series B, Horticulture, Vol. LXVIII, Issue 1
Written by Kristina Ileκtra MAKNEA, Nikolaos THYMAKIS, Julia Nerantzia TZORTZI, Adrian ASANICA
Cities are facing both social and environmental challenges that affect food chain, public health, and social cohesion broadly. Terms such as “Mediterranean Diet”, “Urban horticulture”, “Organic Farming”, “Edible Landscaping” took significant position in everyday life without being sure that we could understand sufficiently their meaning. The pandemic period highlighted how useful tools these would be if we could use them correctly both in planning and development of urban green areas. Urban landscaping and especially gardening and farming connected strongly with social, economic, agricultural, nutritional, environmental, and beautifying parameters through research field in the context of a Doctoral Thesis which took place in Romania, Greece, and Cyprus with main tool a specific questionnaire. The quantitative analysis of the responses is based on a set of 302 variables and aims to elicit information with reference to the knowledge, perception, and experiences of the respondents regarding urban horticulture. The results of the analysis proved that the opinion of the great majority of respondents from Romania, Greece and Cyprus about urban horticulture is positive, with different percentages but for the same reasons.
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