From green spaces to vital places: connection and expression in urban greening

Kleyn, Lisa de; Mumaw, Laura; Corney, Helen

doi:10.1080/00049182.2019.1686195

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“…89 90 This could even extend to simple knowledge of existence (e.g. through storytelling of historic events for maintaining cultural connections across generations 91 ). This terminology is purposefully aligned with the ‘cumulative opportunities’ concept, 92 in which the network of green spaces to which a person may have access is important, not simply the distance or travel-time to that which is nearest.…”

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Green space and loneliness: a systematic review with theoretical and methodological guidance for future research

Astell-Burt

Hartig

Putra³

et al. 2022

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Urban greening may help to reduce the population health impacts of loneliness and its concomitants, such as hopelessness and despair. However, the literature lacks both a critical appraisal of extant evidence and a conceptual model to explain how green space would work as a structural intervention. Both are needed to guide decision making and further research. We conducted a systematic review of quantitative studies testing associations between green space and loneliness, searching seven databases. Twenty two studies were identified by 25/01/2022. Most of the studies were conducted in high-income countries and fifteen (68%) had cross-sectional designs. Green space was measured inconsistently using either objective or subjective indicators. Few studies examined specific green space types or qualities. The majority of studies measured general loneliness (e.g. using the UCLA loneliness scale). Different types of loneliness (social, emotional, existential) were not analysed. Of 132 associations, 88 (66.6%) indicated potential protection from green space against loneliness, with 44 (33.3%) reaching statistical significance (p<0.05). We integrated these findings with evidence from qualitative studies to elaborate and extend the existing pathway domain model linking green space and health. These elaborations and extensions acknowledge the following: (a) different types of green space have implications for different types of loneliness; (b) multilevel circumstances influence the likelihood a person will benefit or suffer harm from green space; (c) personal, relational, and collective processes operate within different domains of pathways linking green space with loneliness and its concomitants; (d) loneliness and its concomitants are explicitly positioned as mediators within the broader causal system that links green space with health and wellbeing. This review and model provide guidance for decision making and further epidemiological research on green space and loneliness.

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Green space and loneliness: a systematic review with theoretical and methodological guidance for future research

Astell-Burt

Hartig

Putra³

et al. 2022

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“…Zhang and Brack 2021 ); social challenges, such as those in engaging and empowering residents (Jones 2020 ), accounting for multiple dimensions of diversity (e.g. de Kleyn et al 2020 ; Saldarriaga et al 2020 ); and strengthening governance (Daniel et al 2016 ; Frantzeskaki and Bush 2021 ). A third challenge, already evident in many cities, is that of adequately resourcing the management and renewal of urban forests; explicit valuation of their ecosystem services (e.g.…”

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Forests under the Southern Cross: The forest environmental frontier in Australia and New Zealand

Kanowski

Edwards

2021

Ambio

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Australia and New Zealand share many historical and contemporary commonalities. These define five contemporary forest environmental frontiers—for First Nations peoples, between agriculture and forestry, in forest management, in urban and peri-urban environments, and in relation to climate change. In both countries, the First Nations frontier is expanding in scale and significance with those peoples’ rights to land and forests. Frontiers with agriculture and in forest management are longstanding but dynamic and as yet little realised in relation to the need for forest and landscape restoration. Both countries are highly urbanised, elevating the significance of the urban and peri-urban frontier, particularly in the context of climate change. In both countries, forests will be profoundly impacted by climate change and are central to mitigation and adaptation strategies. Experience within and intersections between the frontiers offer encouraging prospects for synergies and for learning between the two countries and more widely.

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“…In addition to covering a varied range of complexity and morphology, urban green areas (UGA) are important elements, because they contribute to the maintenance and improvement of urban biodiversity, benefit human health and well-being, and bring inhabitants closer to nature (DeKleyn, Mumaw & Corney, 2019;Goddard, Dougill & Benton, 2010;Loram, Warren, Thompson & Gaston, 2011), in addition to important social functions, by providing spaces for leisure, recreation and social interaction, including economic production. These landscape elements contain values that provide territorial identity, in this sense a first step is to know their characteristics and attributes, among them those concerned with their landscape and biology.…”

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Green Urban Areas, a Landscape and Biological Characterization Applied to a Micro-basin of the Great Metropolitan Area of Costa Rica

Vargas¹,

Bermúdez-Rojas²,

Alejandro³

et al. 2022

REVGEO

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This article presents a landscape and biological characterization of urban green areas (UGA) of the Bermudez River micro-basin located in the province of Heredia, Costa Rica. This characterization is based on a classification according to criteria for the use of these green spaces, where landscape attributes such as quantity, average size, total area and condition of land cover are described; and biological attributes such as richness of species, genera and families, percentages of exotic and native species are identified by UGA category. Geospatial data was used in the case of the landscape component, obtained from municipalities, as well as photointerpretation and generation of own cartography. For assessing the biological component, field samplings, consultation with experts, and secondary sources through an exhaustive review of scientific literature and of online databases was employed. The results show that 8.95% (664.68 ha) of the total UGAs present in the micro-basin is dedicated to biodiversity conservation, protection of water resources and recreation, while private UGAs destined to crops and pastures almost quadruple the former (31.33%; 2,325.81 ha). 1,029 species of trees, shrubs, herbs, climbing plants, etc. were identified, with gardens and streets contributing the most species. Vertebrate fauna is dominated by birds, followed by reptiles, amphibians and finally mammals. In conclusion, the UGAs present in the study area show significant landscape and biological differences in terms of quantity, size, spatial distribution, floristic and fauna richness, and UGAs form a green web that provides ecosystem services to the city.

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From green spaces to vital places: connection and expression in urban greening

Cited by 28 publications

References 45 publications

Green space and loneliness: a systematic review with theoretical and methodological guidance for future research

Green space and loneliness: a systematic review with theoretical and methodological guidance for future research

Forests under the Southern Cross: The forest environmental frontier in Australia and New Zealand

Green Urban Areas, a Landscape and Biological Characterization Applied to a Micro-basin of the Great Metropolitan Area of Costa Rica

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