Ming Kuo

Datos Biográficos

ID6930086
NOMBREMing Kuo
NOMBRESMing
APELLIDOKuo
FIRMAKUO M
AFILIACIONESIllinois Department of Natural Resources
ORCID0000-0002-8159-5303
VERIFICADOSí
TOTAL DE OBRAS6
TOTAL DE CITAS9
TOTAL COMO AUTOR6
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN2015
AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN2025
ÍNDICE H1

  • Will biodiversity actions yield healthy places? A systematic review of human health outcomes associated with biodiversity‐focused urban greening

    Open AccessErica N Spotswood, Myla F J Aronson et al.ARTICLEPeople and Nature2025

    There is growing interest in using urban greening projects to support biodiversity. While there are many potential co‐benefits, the health outcomes resulting from biodiversity‐supporting activities have yet to be synthesized. We conducted a systematic review of health outcomes associated with seven biodiversity‐supporting elements, including patch size, connections, matrix quality, habitat diversity, native plants, special resources and vegetatio…

  • Greening for academic achievement

    Open AccessMing Kuo, Samantha E Klein et al.ARTICLELandscape and Urban Planning2021

    Converging evidence from hundreds of studies suggests that contact with nature enhances learning in elementary and high school students –– could greening in and around schoolyards improve academic achievement in sixth grade students, many of whom are negotiating the transition from elementary to middle school? This study examines the greenness-academic achievement relationship in 450 public schools in Washington State using two different measures…

  • Nature inequity and higher Covid-19 case rates in less-green neighbourhoods in the United States

    Open AccessErica N Spotswood, M Bolker Benjamin et al.ARTICLENature Sustainability2021Citada por: 9Referencias: 5

    Urban nature—such as greenness and parks—can alleviate distress and provide space for safe recreation during the COVID-19 pandemic. However, nature is often less available in low-income populations and communities of colour—the same communities hardest hit by COVID-19. In analyses of two datasets, we quantified inequity in greenness and park proximity across all urbanized areas in the United States and linked greenness and park access to COVID-19…

  • Do Experiences With Nature Promote Learning? Converging Evidence of a Cause-and-Effect Relationship

    Open AccessMing Kuo, Michael Barnes et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Psychology2019

    Do experiences with nature - from wilderness backpacking to plants in a preschool, to a wetland lesson on frogs-promote learning? Until recently, claims outstripped evidence on this question. But the field has matured, not only substantiating previously unwarranted claims but deepening our understanding of the cause-and-effect relationship between nature and learning. Hundreds of studies now bear on this question, and converging evidence strongly…

  • Nature and mental health

    Open AccessGregory N Bratman, Christopher B Anderson et al.ARTICLEScience Advances2019

    We provide consensus on the benefits of nature experience for mental health, and a model for integrating them into urban design.

  • How might contact with nature promote human health? Promising mechanisms and a possible central pathway

    Open AccessMing KuoARTICLEFrontiers in Psychology2015

    How might contact with nature promote human health? Myriad studies have linked the two; at this time the task of identifying the mechanisms underlying this link is paramount. This article offers: (1) a compilation of plausible pathways between nature and health; (2) criteria for identifying a possible central pathway; and (3) one promising candidate for a central pathway. The 21 pathways identified here include environmental factors, physiologica…