Frost, R and Murtagh, N (2024) Understanding how we can encourage front gardening: Analysing capability and opportunity factors from a nationally representative survey. Urban Forestry and Urban Greening, 96. ISSN 1618-8667

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Abstract

Front gardens provide environmental and public health benefits to urban spaces, but are increasingly being covered with impermeable surfacing rather than plants and greenery. To complement and extend the exploration of motivations in the literature on front gardening, we used data collected in a national survey of 1000 adults aged 20–64 in England to explore what capability and opportunity factors affect whether people gardened in their front gardens and the time they spent on this. We found that feeling experienced affected whether someone gardened, but not time spent gardening, whilst greater general and specific knowledge and self-efficacy was associated with all gardening behaviour. In terms of opportunity factors, only time, convenience and rental status were significant factors. Future interventions should build knowledge, experience and self-efficacy, whilst ensuring they are not too time-intensive or inconvenient.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	0502 Environmental Science and Management; 0705 Forestry Sciences; Forestry
Subjects:	R Medicine > RA Public aspects of medicine R Medicine > RA Public aspects of medicine > RA0421 Public health. Hygiene. Preventive Medicine
Divisions:	Nursing & Allied Health Public Health Institute
Publisher:	Elsevier
SWORD Depositor:	A Symplectic
Date Deposited:	29 May 2024 08:58
Last Modified:	29 May 2024 08:58
DOI or ID number:	10.1016/j.ufug.2024.128364
URI:	https://researchonline.ljmu.ac.uk/id/eprint/23375

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