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The landscape of fear as a safety eco-field: experimental evidence (2023)
Journal Article
Farina, A., & James, P. (2023). The landscape of fear as a safety eco-field: experimental evidence. Biosemiotics, 16(1), 61-84. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12304-023-09522-1

In a development of the ecosemiotic vivo-scape concept, a 'safety eco-field' is proposed as a model of a species response to the safety of its environment. The safety eco-field is based on the ecosemiotic approach which considers environmental safety... Read More about The landscape of fear as a safety eco-field: experimental evidence.

Urban green infrastructure size, quality and proximity and health outcomes in older populations (2020)
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Cook, P., Dennis, M., Wheater, C., James, P., & Lindley, S. (2020). Urban green infrastructure size, quality and proximity and health outcomes in older populations. European Journal of Public Health, 30(Sup. 5), v88-v89. https://doi.org/10.1093/eurpub/ckaa165.232

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A city's multi-functional network of green and blue spaces has an important role underpinning the health and wellbeing of its residents. Although evidence of positive links between nature and health is plentiful, little is known about... Read More about Urban green infrastructure size, quality and proximity and health outcomes in older populations.

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

Ecosystem (dis)benefits arising from formal and informal land-use in Manchester (UK); a case study of urban soil characteristics associated with local green space management (2020)
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Urban soils are subject to anthropogenic influences and, reciprocally, provide benefits and dis-benefits to human wellbeing; for example carbon storage, nutrient cycling and the regulation trace element and contaminant mobility. Collective stewardshi... Read More about Ecosystem (dis)benefits arising from formal and informal land-use in Manchester (UK); a case study of urban soil characteristics associated with local green space management.

Investigation of extensive green roof outdoor spatio-temporal thermal performance during summer in a subtropical monsoon climate (2019)
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The thermal performance of green roofs is usually site-specific and changes temporally. Hence, thermal performance evaluation is necessary to optimize green roof design and its cooling effect. In this paper, we evaluated the outdoor spatio-temporal p... Read More about Investigation of extensive green roof outdoor spatio-temporal thermal performance during summer in a subtropical monsoon climate.

Evaluating environmental and ecological landscape characteristics relevant to urban resilience across gradients of land-sharing-sparing and urbanity (2019)
Journal Article
Dennis, M., Scaletta, K., & James, P. Evaluating environmental and ecological landscape characteristics relevant to urban resilience across gradients of land-sharing-sparing and urbanity. PLoS ONE, 14(7), e0215796. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0215796

Within urban landscape planning, debate continues around the relative merits of land-sparing (compaction) and land-sharing (sprawl) scenarios. Using part of Greater Manchester (UK) as a case-study, we present a landscape approach to mapping green inf... Read More about Evaluating environmental and ecological landscape characteristics relevant to urban resilience across gradients of land-sharing-sparing and urbanity.

Evaluating urban environmental and ecological landscape characteristics as a function of land-sharing-sparing, urbanity and scale (2019)
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Within urban landscape planning, debate continues around the relative merits of land-sharing (sprawl) and land-sparing (compaction) scenarios. Using three of the ten districts in Greater Manchester (UK) as a case-study, we present a landscape approac... Read More about Evaluating urban environmental and ecological landscape characteristics as a function of land-sharing-sparing, urbanity and scale.

Urban social-ecological innovation : implications for adaptive natural resource management (2018)
Journal Article
Dennis, M., & James, P. (2018). Urban social-ecological innovation : implications for adaptive natural resource management. Ecological Economics, 150, 153-164. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolecon.2018.04.005

The urban landscape, as home to the majority of the global population, has been the scene of significant and lasting ecological degradation. Consequently, modern cities rely on distant and geographically vast areas for the provision of a range of imp... Read More about Urban social-ecological innovation : implications for adaptive natural resource management.

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

Modeling stormwater management at the city district level in response to changes in land use and low impact development (2017)
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Kong, F., Ban, Y., James, P., & Dronova, I. (2017). Modeling stormwater management at the city district level in response to changes in land use and low impact development. Environmental Modelling and Software, 95, 132-142. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsoft.2017.06.021

Mitigating the impact of increasing impervious surfaces on stormwater runoff by low impact development (LID) is currently being widely promoted at site and local scales. In turn, the series of distributed LID implementations may produce cumulative ef... Read More about Modeling stormwater management at the city district level in response to changes in land use and low impact development.

Ecosystem services of collectively managed urban gardens : exploring factors affecting synergies and trade-offs at the site level (2017)
Journal Article

Collective management of urban green space is being acknowledged and promoted. The need to understand productivity and potential trade-offs between co-occurring ecosystem services arising from collectively managed pockets of green space is pivotal to... Read More about Ecosystem services of collectively managed urban gardens : exploring factors affecting synergies and trade-offs at the site level.

Cooling effect of direct green façades during hot summer days : an observational study in Nanjing, China using TIR and 3DPC data (2017)
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Thermal regulation is a key ecosystem service provided by direct green façades (DGFs), as vegetated walls absorb short wave radiation, reduce solar re-radiation from hard surfaces, and provide cooling due to shading and evapotranspiration. Few studie... Read More about Cooling effect of direct green façades during hot summer days : an observational study in Nanjing, China using TIR and 3DPC data.

Evaluating the relative influence on population health of domestic gardens and green space along a rural-urban gradient (2016)
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Dennis, M., & James, P. (2017). Evaluating the relative influence on population health of domestic gardens and green space along a rural-urban gradient. Landscape and Urban Planning, 157, 343-351. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landurbplan.2016.08.009

Studies have repeatedly affirmed the positive links between human and environmental health but few have sufficiently addressed the complexity brought about by the range of urbanity, population and both green space and domestic gardens cover associate... Read More about Evaluating the relative influence on population health of domestic gardens and green space along a rural-urban gradient.

Considerations in the valuation of urban green space : accounting for user participation (2016)
Journal Article
Dennis, M., & James, P. (2016). Considerations in the valuation of urban green space : accounting for user participation. Ecosystem Services, 21(Part A), 120-129. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoser.2016.08.003

Within the ecosys­tem ser­vices frame­work, val­u­a­tions of nat­ural cap­i­tal have pri­mar­ily taken a land­scape-scale ap­proach. The gen­er­a­tion of trans­fer­able mon­e­tary val­ues for in­di­vid­ual ecosys­tems has like­wise de­pended on as­se... Read More about Considerations in the valuation of urban green space : accounting for user participation.