Category Green Infrastructure
Green/blue infrastructure and health inequalities: theory building
One of the first key pieces of the project Tackling health inequalities through green/blue infrastructure is to build our theoretical understanding of the complex system underpinning the issues we’re interested in. This approach is increasingly common in public health research, and has been around a for a long while in other disciplines. We’ve been fortunate […]
New paper: Greenspace and mental health – a longitudinal dynamic panel study in Wales
There is growing evidence that living near or spending time in green and natural spaces is asociated with better health and well-being. However, most of this evidence is cross sectional, which represents a snapshot of people’s lives and cannot account for within person variation. This leaves open the possibility of reverse causality, where individuals with […]
New paper: A typology for urban Green Infrastructure
The latest paper from the REGREEN project has been published Open Access in the journal Nature-Based Solutions. It sets out a typology of urban Green Infrastructure which aims to help design and plan new Green Infrastructure. The paper was led by Prof Laurence Jones from UKCEH, and involved several co-authors from the University of Exeter. […]
Beyond Greenspace 