Department of Landscape Architecture, Soochow University, Suzhou, China.
Collaborative Innovation Center of Architecture and Urban Environment of Soochow University-Suzhou Yuanke; China-Portugal Belt and Road Cooperation Laboratory of Cultural Heritage Conservation Science, Research Center of Landscape Protection and Ecological Restoration, Soochow University, Suzhou, China.
Front Public Health. 2021 Nov 11;9:740187. doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2021.740187. eCollection 2021.
The COVID-19 pandemic has led to tremendous impacts on human lives and society, which are not only because of negative effects on people's mental health due to isolation policies and physical distance for mitigating the spread of SARS-CoV-2, but also because the incident post-acute sequelae of the coronavirus will cause mental disorders. A green environment is a health resource, which cannot only benefit human physical and mental health, but also increases biodiversity, contributes to flood mitigation, and cools urban areas. A home garden, as a kind of small green space, can provide ecosystem services with eco-healing functions in reducing mental stress during the isolation period of the COVID-19 pandemic through the garden itself and physical activities in it. Such an eco-healing approach within a mini-therapeutic landscape can also benefit biodiversity by enhancing plant diversity in residence and increasing biodiversity at a large scale. In this article, we propose a conceptual framework describing a home garden as "ecological medicine" with healing functions to improve mental health, as well as indirectly enhancing urban biodiversity. A home garden, as a mini-type of green landscape with biodiversity content, allows people to get close with nature so that it can promote comfortable and natural feelings during the pandemic. Furthermore, such an eco-healing home garden approach benefiting urban biodiversity can meet the challenges in maintaining environmental and mental health in post COVID-19 pandemic recovery, as well as preparing unknown next-surge risks with potential isolation regulations.
新冠疫情大流行对人类生活和社会造成了巨大影响，这不仅是因为为了减缓 SARS-CoV-2 的传播而采取的隔离政策和保持身体距离对人们的心理健康产生了负面影响，还因为新冠病毒的后遗症会导致精神障碍。绿色环境是一种健康资源，不仅有益于人类身心健康，还能增加生物多样性，有助于减轻洪水，为城市降温。家庭花园作为一种小型绿地，可以通过花园本身和其中的体育活动，在新冠疫情隔离期间减少精神压力，提供具有生态疗愈功能的生态系统服务。这种微型治疗性景观内的生态疗愈方法还可以通过增强居住植物多样性和增加大规模生物多样性，使生物多样性受益。在本文中，我们提出了一个概念框架，将家庭花园描述为具有疗愈功能的“生态医学”，以改善心理健康，并间接增强城市生物多样性。家庭花园作为一种具有生物多样性内容的小型绿地，可以让人们亲近自然，从而在大流行期间促进舒适和自然的感觉。此外，这种有益于城市生物多样性的生态疗愈家庭花园方法可以应对后 COVID-19 大流行恢复期间维护环境和心理健康的挑战，以及为可能的隔离规定下潜在的下一波疫情做好准备。
