Category Project progress
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 […]
ReBLS: A new longitudinal survey of people’s attitudes towards nature
As part of our work for theme one of the RENEW project, the Renewing Biodiversity Longitudinal Survey, or ReBLS for short, has been launched. The aim of the longitudinal panel survey is to understand how biodiversity renewal impacts people’s attitudes towards nature and renewal efforts, nature-related behaviours, health, and well-being, and how this may change […]
New paper: The ‘nature-based biopsychosocial resilience theory’
The first paper from the Resonate project has been published. The paper details a new ‘nature-based biopsychosocial resilience theory’ (NBRT), which describes the ways in which nature based solutions, including green social prescribing, can help individuals and communities cope better with climate change and other environmental, social or personal stressors by enhancing social-ecological resilience. White, […]
WHO Collaborating Centre on Natural Environments and Health
The European Centre for Environment and Human Health (ECEHH) has just been re-designated as the Collaborating Centre on Natural Environments and Health by the World Health Organization (WHO) Regional Office for Europe for a further four years! ECEHH has authored several reports for the WHO via the Collaborating Center. These include providing an overview of […]
Preventing and Tackling Mental Ill Health through Green Social Prescribing Project Evaluation. Interim report published
In Spring 2021 we began work on the evaluation of the Government’s flagship Green Social Prescribing test and learn pilots programme. The interim report, submitted to Defra in January 2023, has been published. The final report will be published later in 2023. We produced: Background to the evaluation of the Preventing and Tackling Mental Ill […]
The RESONATE project: building individual and community resilience through nature-based therapies
The University of Exeter, including members of ECEHH, have joined a new €6.3 million EU Horizon Europe and UK Research & Innovation-funded project which will explore how nature based programmes can help build individual and community resilience. The Resonate project inlcudes a global review of interventions and an in-depth exploration of 9 nature-based therapy case […]
Developing an intervention and acceptability/feasibility study of a greenspace programme for mental health and problem substance use
Becca has joined a new project, led by Dr Wendy Masterton at the Unversity of Stirling, which aims to develop, and then begin the processes of testing, a nature based programme designed for people with lived experience of poor mental health and problem substance use. With rising levels of poor mental health and substance-related harm, […]
Take part in the RENEW Window View Survey
As part of the RENEW project, we are asking people to take part in a survey all about the views from windows in your homes or workplaces. To take part, you can simply upload a picture of your view and answer a few questions about its importance to you. Looking at nature through a window […]
Nature on prescription for mental health trial: Feasibility stage
Ruth, Becca, Kerryn and a team from Exeter and Plymouth Universities have been awarded funds by the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) to conduct a feasibility study of nature based activities reached through social prescribing. The work will help prepare for a full Randomised Controlled Trial which will help clarify whether such activities are […]
SWEEP x Agile Rabbit: Protecting nature – improving our health
On 13th October a collaboration between SWEEP Investing in Nature for Health and Agile Rabbit hosted an open online event Protecting nature – improving our health. In this free online event, we took a deep dive into the benefits nature provides us and what this means for how we protect the natural world, with perspectives […]
Beyond Greenspace 