Research Interests and Projects:
Food systems, ecological nutrition, school gardening, ecological literacy and obesity
Projects:
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Development of the Instructional Garden Project at the Penn State Center for Sustainability, University Park Campus
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Research on the impact of school gardening on learning, nutritional health and ecological stewardship
Representative Publications:
Blair, Dorothy and Jeffery Sobal, Luxus Consumption: Wasting Food Resource through Overeating, Agriculture and Human Values, Spring, 2006. http://www.springerlink.com/content/j10323rk7311856h/
Blair, Dorothy. Street Food Vending and Nutritional Impact, Agriculture and Human Values, 16:321-323, 1999.
Blair, Dorothy. "Eating in the Bioregion." In: The Ecology of Health: Issues and Alternatives, J. Chesworth, ed. Sage Pub., CA ,1996, p 297-307.
Blair, Dorothy. Dietary methodology issues related to energy balance measurement for NHANES III. In: Briefel, R.B. and Sempos, C.T., eds. Dietary Methodology Workshop for the Third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey. National Center for Health Statistics. Vital Health Statistics, 4(27):43-50, l992.
Blair, Dorothy. The Northeast Food System. In: The Northeast Network: Food. Health and Agriculture; a food policy program for the Northeast Cooperative Extension Service, Cornell University, 35 p., 1991.
Blair, Dorothy, Carol Giesecke and Sandra Sherman. A Dietary, Social and Economic Evaluation of the Philadelphia Urban Gardening Project. Journal of Nutrition Education, 23:161-163, 1991. http://www.sarep.ucdavis.edu/newsltr/v7n3/sa-10.htm
In preparation:
Blair, Dorothy. The Child in the Garden: An Evaluative Review of the Benefits of School Gardening. Journal of Environmental Education, 2008