Category Publications
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, […]
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: Testing pathways between nature and health
Lewis and colleagues have published a new paper exploring the pathways between nature and health in Environment International. The team’s main aim was to investigate the relative importance of multiple mediating pathways (air quality, physical activity, social contact, subjective well-being) through which exposure to, and contact with, different types of natural environment may benefit self-reported […]
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 […]
New paper: Visiting nature is associated with lower socioeconomic inequalities in well-being in Wales
A new paper exploring the links between green and blue spaces and well-being in Wales has been published Open Access in the journal Scientific Reports. This paper was part of a project led by Prof Sarah Rodgers at the University of Liverpool. Natural environments can promote well-being through multiple mechanisms. Although some of these benefits […]
New paper: Applying an ecosystem services framework on nature and mental health to recreational blue space visits across 18 countries
The latest paper from the now completed BlueHealth project has been published Open Access in the journal Scientific Reports. The findings provide valuable insights into how different aspects of blue space visits can influence people’s reported mental well-being. Ecosystem services (ESS) are the contributions to individuals and society that result from the natural environment and […]
Beyond Greenspace and wider ECEHH team papers
I finally updated the page listing our published papers. The page has papers on lots of topics relating to the linkages between nature and health that have been published by many of the people working at ECEHH: Hope they are useful!
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. […]
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 […]
New Green Social Prescribing Resources
We have begun to collate a set of resources to support the evidence needs of Green Social Prescribing practitioners. On the pages you will find (hopefully) helpful evidence and resources to support green social prescribing. The topics are: Social prescribing Nature and health Mental health Health promotion Health inequalities Evaluation methods Volunteering Communities Systems working […]
Beyond Greenspace 