Outputs (6)

Mind, body and blood: advancing green care through innovative methodologies within the field of health geography (2024)
Journal Article
Louise, M., Hardman, M., Michelle, H., & Penny, C. (in press). Mind, body and blood: advancing green care through innovative methodologies within the field of health geography. Cities and Health, 1-11. https://doi.org/10.1080/23748834.2023.2290904

Geography and health disciplines have become inseparable, with our environments effecting our physical health and mental wellbeing, spawning the subdiscipline of Health Geographies. In this paper we argue that radical innovations are needed to fully... Read More about Mind, body and blood: advancing green care through innovative methodologies within the field of health geography.

Advancing GReencare in Europe: a multi-scalar approach to improve Mental health Equity (the GreenME project) (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

BACKGROUND AND AIM: There is burgeoning evidence that green care (viewed on a continuum that includes nature-in-everyday-life, nature-based health promotion, and nature-based therapy) can be used to promote mental health and wellbeing particularly fo... Read More about Advancing GReencare in Europe: a multi-scalar approach to improve Mental health Equity (the GreenME project).

Critically exploring public realm greenspace as a therapeutic landscape and the role of Green Social Prescribing (2023)
Book Chapter
Thompson, J., Howarth, M., Hardman, M., & Cook, P. Critically exploring public realm greenspace as a therapeutic landscape and the role of Green Social Prescribing. In P. Marsh, & A. Williams (Eds.), Cultivated Therapeutic Landscapes. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003355731

In this chapter, we conceptualise public realm greenspace as a therapeutic landscape, and explore its role and potential as a medium for civic environmental nature-based activities that generate health and wellbeing benefits. We outline common approa... Read More about Critically exploring public realm greenspace as a therapeutic landscape and the role of Green Social Prescribing.

Enabling urban social farming : the need for radical green infrastructure in the city (2021)
Journal Article

With the global population set to reach 9.8 billion by 2050, there are concerns that health services are beginning to be stretched beyond working limits, particularly in the Global North, where many nations face ageing populations and similar obstacl... Read More about Enabling urban social farming : the need for radical green infrastructure in the city.

Relationships between health outcomes in older populations and urban green infrastructure size, quality and proximity (2020)
Journal Article

Background: There is a growing body of literature supporting positive associations between natural environments and better health. The type, quality and quantity of green and blue space (‘green-space’) in proximity to the home might be particularly i... Read More about Relationships between health outcomes in older populations and urban green infrastructure size, quality and proximity.

Mapping urban green infrastructure : a novel landscape-based approach to incorporating land-use and land-cover in the mapping of human-dominated systems (2018)
Journal Article

Common approaches to mapping green infrastructure in urbanized landscapes invariably focus on measures of land-use or land-cover and associated functional or physical traits. However, such one-dimensional perspectives do not accurately capture the ch... Read More about Mapping urban green infrastructure : a novel landscape-based approach to incorporating land-use and land-cover in the mapping of human-dominated systems.