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Urban greenspace quandaries: Can systems thinking offer any solutions?
, 2019 Public urban greenspace provides myriad benefits, including health and wellbeing, 'community cohesion… and local economic growth' (House of Commons, 2017: 3). As other 'Third Place' (Oldenburg, 1989) types, including leisure centres (Conn, 2015), have
Paul Wyton +3 more
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Advancing Understanding on Greenspace and Mental Health in Young People
GeoHealthMental distress among young people has increased in recent years. Research suggests that greenspace may benefit mental health. The objective of this exploratory study is to further understanding of place‐based differences (i.e., urbanity) in the ...
Sophia C. Ryan +3 more
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People and Nature, 2023 In light of global climate change and the biodiversity crisis, making cities more resilient through an adjusted design of urban green and blue spaces is crucial.
Kristen Jakstis +5 more
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New Zealand Geographer, Volume 82, Issue 3, December 2026.ABSTRACT Although blue‐green infrastructure (BGI) is increasingly used to mitigate the challenges that climate change poses for cities, public involvement in its design is uneven. Here we examine three BGI projects in Ōtautahi Christchurch, Aotearoa New Zealand, documenting how local communities and mana whenua were engaged in their design and the ...
Tyler McNabb +4 more
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Local government is at the forefront of providing communities with urban greenspace, amidst responding to global challenges of climate change, biodiversity loss and population growth.
Boulton, Chris, Dedekorkut-Howes, Aysin
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Global Greenspace Indicator Dataset
, 2023 Urban greenspace indicators for over 1,000 global urban areas, including indicators for 2010, 2015, 2020, and 2021.
Stowell, Jennifer
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Earth's FutureUrban greenspace inequality has become a major sustainability challenge, yet the roles of different greenspace types in mitigating exposure inequality remain poorly understood, even as cropland is increasingly being incorporated into urban landscape ...
Junnan Qi +8 more
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The Climate Impasse: Disavowal, Exhaustion and Everyday Life in the Climate Crisis
Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, Volume 51, Issue 4, December 2026.ABSTRACT The consequences of climate‐related disasters and emergencies are becoming increasingly stark. And yet in many places, consensus on climate action appears unattainable. I call this problem the climate impasse. In this paper, I draw on emerging theory on affect and negativity to characterise this impasse in three ways.
Nathaniel O'Grady
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Urban greenspace and neighborhood crime
CriminologyAbstractUrban greenspace (UGS) has been recently linked to public safety. Criminologists, however, have been largely absent from the discussion about this association, despite having important theoretical tools and empirical findings to contribute. In the current study, we review the prominent criminological perspectives that may be used to explain the
James C. Wo, Ethan M. Rogers
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Urban centre green metrics in Great Britain: A geospatial and socioecological study.
PLoS ONE, 2022 Green infrastructure plays a vital role in urban ecosystems. This includes sustaining biodiversity and human health. Despite a large number of studies investigating greenspace disparities in suburban areas, no known studies have compared the green ...
Jake M Robinson +3 more
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