ISHS Acta Horticulturae 523: XXV International Horticultural Congress, Part 13: New and Specialized Crops and Products, Botanic Gardens and Human-Horticulture Relationship
PRESENT STATUS OF HUMAN-HORTICULTURE RELATIONSHIPS RESEARCH: AUSTRALIA, NEW ZEALAND AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC |
| Author: | D.E. Aldous |
| Keywords: | horticultural therapy, socio-horticulture, environmental horticulture |
| Abstract:
The Australian and South Pacific region principally involves the land mass of Australia, and the islands of New Zealand, New Guinea, Melanesia, Micronesia and Polynesia. Within this region 31M inhabitants occupy 8M sq. km. of land area, with Australian, New Zealand and Papua New Guinea accounting for 80 percent of the population, and 96 percent of the land area. Human-horticulture relationships, and how humans first became aware of and used plants, go back to the earliest times of habitation in this region. The provision of horticulture in the region, provides both a source of food, fuel and clothing, as well as the physiological need for plants and the effects that plants have on human beings. Changes in the human-horticulture relationships are often dependent on a host of social and economic factors ranging from personality and gender, family and peer group pressure, age, stage in the life cycle through educational, financial and class background, to such variables as history of the region, experiences in childhood, the content of school curricula, value positions and changes in the allocation of time to work and leisure. | |
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