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From Crisis to Opportunity: Exploring Urban Food Growing in the UK During and Beyond the COVID-19 Pandemic (2025)
Book Chapter

Gardening during times of crisis can have significant benefits to individuals and populations in terms of health, well-being, social and economic outcomes. So-called ‘crisis gardening’ can even be linked to transformative change in food systems throu... Read More about From Crisis to Opportunity: Exploring Urban Food Growing in the UK During and Beyond the COVID-19 Pandemic.

The wellbeing impacts of participation in civic environmental activities in an urban context: a mixed methods realist evaluation (2025)
Thesis

Environmental organisations are operating in the context of climate emergency and a biodiversity crisis, alongside a growing green health movement that seeks to understand better the links between the natural environment and human health. This study... Read More about The wellbeing impacts of participation in civic environmental activities in an urban context: a mixed methods realist evaluation.

Cities, climate change and the biodiversity crisis (2025)
Journal Article

Unlocking peri-urban planning potential through a landscape lens (2025)
Book Chapter

This chapter assesses the potential of peri-urban spaces as multifunctional landscapes of opportunity and innovation. Two English case study narratives are unpacked using a multidimensional landscape conceptualisation to inform and improve peri-urban... Read More about Unlocking peri-urban planning potential through a landscape lens.

Planning for Urban Greenspaces (2025)
Journal Article

There are repeated and sustained calls for policies, funding initiatives and endeavours to address ongoing concerns regarding the impact of climate change, biodiversity loss and the general depletion of nature. These are globally significant issues a... Read More about Planning for Urban Greenspaces.

2D Modelling Of Sediment Dynamics In High Energy Gravel Bed Rivers And Climate Impacted Glacier Fed River Basins (2025)
Thesis

This thesis sets out a novel method of 2D sediment modelling in high energy mountain systems. A new combined methodology using lidar, drone and dGPS survey along with HEC-RAS 2D river simulation has been developed. This methodology has been validated... Read More about 2D Modelling Of Sediment Dynamics In High Energy Gravel Bed Rivers And Climate Impacted Glacier Fed River Basins.

Enabling grass root climate recovery: drawing on drug recovery tools to support climate behaviour change (2025)
Thesis

We have only a short window of time to radically reduce carbon emissions; the General Secretary of the United Nations in his closing statement at COP28 said ‘The world cannot afford delays, indecision, or half measures’ (Guterres, 2023 para 26) and p... Read More about Enabling grass root climate recovery: drawing on drug recovery tools to support climate behaviour change.

Quantifying the benefits of incorporating biochar in green roof substrates: field study on the highrise rooftop in temperate climate setting (2025)
Journal Article

Biochar is a promising material with a wide range of applications. One area of application is as an additive in substrates for green roofs. Green roofs are a way of mitigating climate change, with biochar offering an opportunity to further enhance th... Read More about Quantifying the benefits of incorporating biochar in green roof substrates: field study on the highrise rooftop in temperate climate setting.

Towards Energy Recovery from Waste in Developing Countries An Analysis of the Challenges, Barriers and Prospects of Waste Management in Abuja, Nigeria (2024)
Thesis

Waste management is a pressing global concern with far-reaching environmental,
social, and economic implications. Proper waste management is crucial for
sustainable development and achieving a cleaner environment. Studies have
projected that the a... Read More about Towards Energy Recovery from Waste in Developing Countries An Analysis of the Challenges, Barriers and Prospects of Waste Management in Abuja, Nigeria.

Environmental Justice and Private Urban Gardens: A Critical Analysis of Practices in Salford, Greater Manchester (2024)
Thesis

While it is well accepted that the quality of a greenspace determines its ability to provide health and
wellbeing benefits, research and policy overlook the spaces which residents have their most direct
and frequent contact with nature – urban hous... Read More about Environmental Justice and Private Urban Gardens: A Critical Analysis of Practices in Salford, Greater Manchester.

Social prescribing of urban agriculture: The importance of minimizing risks from soil contamination (2024)
Journal Article
Beesley, L., & Hardman, M. (2024). Social prescribing of urban agriculture: The importance of minimizing risks from soil contamination. Cities, 149, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cities.2024.104971

The value of Green Social Prescribing (GSP) of Urban Agriculture (UA) is well proven, with many cities witnessing a rise in such activities. However, with burgeoning interest, there comes an increased need to understand the potential risks associated... Read More about Social prescribing of urban agriculture: The importance of minimizing risks from soil contamination.

Biochar and heavy metals (2024)
Book Chapter
Beesley, L., Cerqueira Cancelo, B., Hardman, M., Lebrun, M., Mitchell, K., & Lukas Trakal, A. (2024). Biochar and heavy metals. In Biochar for Environmental Management: Science and Technology. Earthscan

Evaluating the Quality of Public Participation and Its Effectiveness in Environmental Impact Assessment of Road Infrastructural Projects in Nigeria (2024)
Thesis

Nigeria has witnessed substantial growth in its road networks due to an expanding population, with road transportation serving as the primary mode for passenger and freight movements. However, this growth has brought challenges related to the impleme... Read More about Evaluating the Quality of Public Participation and Its Effectiveness in Environmental Impact Assessment of Road Infrastructural Projects in Nigeria.

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.

Upscaling Green Social Prescribing and Urban Agriculture in Cities: Reflections on Social and Horticultural Therapy in the United Kingdom (2024)
Journal Article
Hardman, M., Hubbard, L., & Watson, H. (2024). Upscaling Green Social Prescribing and Urban Agriculture in Cities: Reflections on Social and Horticultural Therapy in the United Kingdom. Professional Geographer, 1-10. https://doi.org/10.1080/00330124.2023.2286591

Post-COVID policymaking has accelerated investment and support for urban greening initiatives. Even prior to the pandemic, we witnessed across the globe an ever-increasing appetite for the idea of bringing nature into the city through parks, allotmen... Read More about Upscaling Green Social Prescribing and Urban Agriculture in Cities: Reflections on Social and Horticultural Therapy in the United Kingdom.

Green Activism (2023)
Book Chapter
Hardman, M. (2023). Green Activism. In K. Van Assche, R. Beunen, & M. Duineveld (Eds.), Elgar Encyclopedia in Urban and Regional Planning and Design (164 - 165). Edward Elgar Publishing

Enhancing green infrastructure in cities: Urban car parks as an opportunity space (2023)
Journal Article
Evans, A., & Hardman, M. (2023). Enhancing green infrastructure in cities: Urban car parks as an opportunity space. Land Use Policy, 134, 106914. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2023.106914

Interest in radical solutions to embedding Green Infrastructure (GI) into the built environment are at an all-time high. With land value often preventing more mundane forms of GI, key actors, such as planners, developers, architects and others, are i... Read More about Enhancing green infrastructure in cities: Urban car parks as an opportunity space.

Edible Garden Cities: Rethinking Boundaries and Integrating Hedges into Scalable Urban Food Systems (2023)
Journal Article
Adams, D., Larkham, P. J., & Hardman, M. (2023). Edible Garden Cities: Rethinking Boundaries and Integrating Hedges into Scalable Urban Food Systems. Land, 12(10), 1915. https://doi.org/10.3390/land12101915

Connecting to and extending recent debates around more-than-human thinking, this paper explores how porous boundary treatments and plot layouts might encourage ecological exchanges within new urban and peri-urban developments. This study therefore re... Read More about Edible Garden Cities: Rethinking Boundaries and Integrating Hedges into Scalable Urban Food Systems.

Policy, Regulatory and Commercial Considerations for the Implementation of a Mobility as a Service System (2023)
Thesis

Transport and access to mobility have been highlighted as a key factor in enabling economic growth and improving quality of life. However, widely used transport modes, such as private vehicles, also negatively impact cities and towns in several ways,... Read More about Policy, Regulatory and Commercial Considerations for the Implementation of a Mobility as a Service System.

Enabling Urban Agriculture in the Global North and South: A Comparative Study of the UK and Nigeria (2023)
Thesis

As the world's urban population rises, we must reconsider our relationship with food. As a result of the growing population and insufficient food produced in rural regions, poverty and hunger are on the rise. Urban Agriculture (UA) has the potential... Read More about Enabling Urban Agriculture in the Global North and South: A Comparative Study of the UK and Nigeria.