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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).

Social return on investment: reflections on advancing the method within cities & health (2023)
Journal Article
Mitchell, L., Hardman, M., Goodspeed, T., Atkinson, L., & Howarth, M. (2023). Social return on investment: reflections on advancing the method within cities & health. Cities and Health, 7(5), 677-681. https://doi.org/10.1080/23748834.2023.2192333

Social return on investment has received attention from a spectrum of disciplinary
areas and practitioners. In the post-COVID city, the use of the approach has increased,
in part to provide data on green and blue schemes, arts and culture projects,... Read More about Social return on investment: reflections on advancing the method within cities & health.

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. (2023). Critically exploring public realm greenspace as a therapeutic landscape and the role of Green Social Prescribing. In Cultivated Therapeutic Landscapes. Taylor & Francis (Routledge). https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003355731-9

This chapter explores the concept of, and presents the case for, public realm greenspace as a therapeutic landscape. We argue that the act of cultivating this landscape is a means by which to offer opportunity for wellness through access and interact... Read More about Critically exploring public realm greenspace as a therapeutic landscape and the role of Green Social Prescribing.

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.

The climate crisis - can a community-led approach work? (2023)
Journal Article
O'Connor, B. C., Hardman, M., Donkin, L. M., & Cook, P. A. (in press). The climate crisis - can a community-led approach work?. Perspectives in Public Health, 17579139231180802. https://doi.org/10.1177/17579139231180802

Climate change is the biggest threat to human health.1 Over 300 Local authorities across the United Kingdom have declared climate emergencies,2 and there have been over 1500 declared by equivalent local authorities across the globe.3 Local authoritie... Read More about The climate crisis - can a community-led approach work?.

Frontiers in blue-green infrastructure (2023)
Book Chapter
Hardman, M., Baldock, K., Connop, S., Taylor, K., & Stirling, R. (2023). Frontiers in blue-green infrastructure. In ICE Manual of Blue-Green Infrastructure (227-246). ICE Publishing

Exploring waste tyres problems and sustainable waste management in the Tunisian context (2022)
Journal Article
Abuzukhar, M., Hardman, M., & Clark, A. (2022). Exploring waste tyres problems and sustainable waste management in the Tunisian context. Current journal of applied science and technology, 41(35), 1-20. https://doi.org/10.9734/cjast/2022/v41i353956

Waste tyres represent one of the environmentally damaging fractions of the solid waste stream in Tunisia, where the problem of inefficient waste tyre management is endemic. This is easily identified by the piles of accumulating tyre waste located on... Read More about Exploring waste tyres problems and sustainable waste management in the Tunisian context.

Exploring the need for innovation in greening urban environments: Reflecting on radical practice in Greater Manchester, UK (2022)
Journal Article

The green agenda is high on the list of priorities of local, national, and global governments.
In the UK, a new £40 million scheme aims to encourage a sustainable recovery alongside
policies - such as the 25 Year Environment Plan - and other tools... Read More about Exploring the need for innovation in greening urban environments: Reflecting on radical practice in Greater Manchester, UK.

Mobility as a Service: Defining a Transport Utopia (2022)
Journal Article
Brown, C., Hardman, M., Davies, N., & Armitage, R. (2022). Mobility as a Service: Defining a Transport Utopia. Future Transportation, 2(1), 300-309. https://doi.org/10.3390/futuretransp2010016

Having been widely acknowledged as enabling access to education, employment, leisure and social activities, transport choices are also the cause of many challenges cities face. Recognising that change is needed, planners and policymakers are consider... Read More about Mobility as a Service: Defining a Transport Utopia.

Mainstreaming Urban Agriculture: Opportunities and Barriers to Upscaling City Farming (2022)
Journal Article
Hardman, M., Clark, A., & Sherriff, G. (2022). Mainstreaming Urban Agriculture: Opportunities and Barriers to Upscaling City Farming. Agronomy, 12(3), 601. https://doi.org/10.3390/agronomy12030601

Urban Agriculture (UA), i.e., the production of crops or rearing of livestock in cities, is growing in popularity. Upscaled UA is increasingly gaining support from policy makers, funders, local authorities and other key actors across the globe. Radic... Read More about Mainstreaming Urban Agriculture: Opportunities and Barriers to Upscaling City Farming.

Identifying the health, wellbeing and social impacts in older adults using nature-based projects: a case study of care farming and community gardening interventions in Greater Manchester. (2021)
Thesis
Mitchell, L. Identifying the health, wellbeing and social impacts in older adults using nature-based projects: a case study of care farming and community gardening interventions in Greater Manchester. (Thesis). The University of Salford

Urbanisation and the continued increase in global populations has created pressures on resources, including health care and natural ecosystems. Subsequently, longer life expectancies and comorbidities exacerbates pressures on health services. The Glo... Read More about Identifying the health, wellbeing and social impacts in older adults using nature-based projects: a case study of care farming and community gardening interventions in Greater Manchester..

Using games in geographical and planning-related teaching : serious games, edutainment, board games and role-play (2021)
Journal Article

This paper reviews the use of games in geographical teaching, including prior to the
emergence of computer-based (digital) games. The growing popularity of ‘serious games’
and ‘edutainment’ is addressed, focusing on their perceived advantages in cl... Read More about Using games in geographical and planning-related teaching : serious games, edutainment, board games and role-play.

Chapitre 4. Guérilla jardinière, résistance et espace public (Chapter 4. Guerrilla gardening, resistance and public space) (2021)
Book Chapter
(Chapter 4. Guerrilla gardening, resistance and public space). In L. Granchamp, & S. Glatron (Eds.), Militantismes et potagers (Activists and vegetable gardens). Presses Universitaires du Septentrion

There is a small but emerging area of research that explores the impact of ‘guerrilla gardening’, an activity which involves actors occupying land, often in the public realm, without permission. Whilst several recent studies have charted the impact o... Read More about Chapitre 4. Guérilla jardinière, résistance et espace public (Chapter 4. Guerrilla gardening, resistance and public space).

Exploring waste tyre problems and sustainable waste management in the Tunisian context (2021)
Thesis
Abuzukhar, M. Exploring waste tyre problems and sustainable waste management in the Tunisian context. (Thesis). University of Salford

Waste tyres represent one of the environmentally damaging fractions of the solid waste stream in Tunisia, where the problem of inefficient waste tyre management is endemic. This is easily identified by the piles of accumulating tyre waste located on... Read More about Exploring waste tyre problems and sustainable waste management in the Tunisian context.