Integrated Pest Management is a continually improving initiative that is beneficial to both conservation of beneficial insects and ecological health in urban Cincinnati. However, landscape industry employees and environmental policy-makers require education on the four main strategies of IPM in order to carry out this initiative. This project explains the emerging educational strategies that landscape industry employees and environmental policy-makers need in order to fulfill this initiative.
This research investigates if there is a meaningful correlation between those living in low-income areas and the state of the soil’s health. Specifically, the neighborhoods of Lower Price Hill, Winton Hills, and Walnut Hills in Cincinnati, Ohio, are examined regarding socioeconomic class related to the quality of life for those living in these neighborhoods to determine if any quantifiable disparities in the aforementioned neighborhoods are perpetuated by or a direct result of poor soil health.