Details

Organization:	People-Plant Council
Contact:	Diane Relf
Address:	Office of Environmental Horticulture
	Saunders 407
	Blacksburg
	Virginia
	24061-0327
	USA
Phone:	(540) 231-6254
Email:	pdrelf@vt.edu
URL:	http://www.hort.vt.edu/human/PPC.html

Description

• The People-Plant Council (PPC) was formed as a result of the national interdisciplinary symposium, "The Role of Horticulture in Human Well-being and Social Development," held in 1990. The mission of this Council is to document and communicate the effect that plants have on human well-being and improved life-quality. It is carried out through a three-part strategy focusing on the psychological, sociological, physiological, economic, and environmental effects of plants on people:
  • communication - maintaining an interdisciplinary network among researchers, funders, users, and Council affiliates.
  • research - encouraging cooperative efforts to identify research priorities and establish interdisciplinary research methodologies
  • public awareness - encouraging the use of horticulture for enhanced life-quality based on research findings
  PPC is not a membership organization, rather a link or affiliation between organizations. Affiliation is open to all organizations within the horticulture and social science communities and allied or interested organizations to include, but not to be limited to: academic and professional associations; trade and commercial associations, and volunteer, civic, amateur and concerned groups.