Moving from features to functions

Bridging disciplinary understandings of urban environments to support healthy people and ecosystems

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ID15072037
AutoresAndy Yuille (0000-0003-2327-2263, Lancaster University, autor de correspondencia), Jessica Davies (0000-0001-9832-7412, Lancaster University), Mark Green (0000-0002-0942-6628), Mark B Green (0000-0002-7415-7209, University of Liverpool), Charlotte Hardman, Charlotte A Hardman (0000-0002-0744-6019, University of Liverpool), Jo Knight (0000-0002-7148-1660, Lancaster University), Rachel Marshall (0000-0001-7935-7288, Lancaster University), Hannah Armitt (0000-0002-5948-0593, Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust), Miranda Bane (0000-0002-2570-4915, University of Bristol), Alex Bush (0000-0002-0679-6666, Lancaster University), Victoria Carr (0000-0002-3421-8898, Royal Society for the Protection of Birds), Rebecca Clark (0000-0002-8748-7856, National Trust), Sally Cox (University of Liverpool), Felicity Crotty (0000-0002-7363-224X, Research Complex at Harwell), Siân De Bell (0000-0001-7356-3849, University of Exeter), A C Edwards (0000-0002-4006-9710, Lancaster University), Annabelle Edwards (0000-0002-6431-6464), Jody Ferguson (University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Foundation Trust), Richard Fry (0000-0002-7968-6679, Swansea University), Rich Fry, Mark A Goddard (0000-0002-2283-6752, Northumbria University), Mark Goddard, Andy Harrod (0000-0001-5836-4518, Lancaster University), Helen E Hoyle, Helen Hoyle (0000-0001-9036-4147, University of Sheffield), Katherine N Irvine (0000-0001-8860-2783, James Hutton Institute), Katherine Irvine, Danielle Lambrick (0000-0002-0325-6015, University of Southampton), Nicoletta Leonardi (0000-0002-1024-4805, University of Liverpool), Michael Lomas, Michael W Lomas (0000-0003-1209-3753, University of Salford), Ryan Lumber (0000-0002-6308-2221, Nottingham Trent University), Laura Maclean (0000-0002-4756-9881, James Hutton Institute), Gabriele Manoli (0000-0002-9245-2877, École Nationale de l’Aviation Civile), Bethan R Mead (0000-0002-9294-517X, University of Liverpool), Bethan Mead, Louise Neilson (Princess of Wales Hospital), Beth Nicholls (University of Sussex), Liz O’brien (0000-0001-7976-9987, Forest Research), Rachel Pateman (0000-0002-2260-170X, University of York), Michael Pocock, Michael J O Pocock (0000-0003-4375-0445, UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology), Hayley Scoffham (Stantec (Canada)), Jamie Sims (0000-0003-4735-495X), J A Sims (Oxford Brookes University), Piran C L White (0000-0002-7496-5775, University of York), Piran White
Año2024
Volumen90
Páginas103368
Fecha de publicación2024-11-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaHealth & Place (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1353-8292 • E-ISSN: 1873-2054
EditorialElsevier BV (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1016/j.healthplace.2024.103368
PMID39426335
OpenAlexW4403526412
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas5
Referencias citadas96

Contact with nature can contribute to health and wellbeing, but knowledge gaps persist regarding the environmental characteristics that promote these benefits. Understanding and maximising these benefits is particularly important in urban areas, where opportunities for such contact is limited. At the same time, we are facing climate and ecological crises which require policy and practice to support ecosystem functioning. Policies are increasingly being oriented towards delivering benefits for people and nature simultaneously. However, different disciplinary understandings of environments and environmental quality present challenges to this agenda. This paper highlights key knowledge gaps concerning linkages between nature and health. It then describes two perspectives on environmental quality, based respectively in environmental sciences and social sciences. It argues that understanding the linkages between these perspectives is vital to enable urban environments to be planned, designed and managed for the benefit of both environmental functioning and human health. Finally, it identifies key challenges and priorities for integrating these different disciplinary perspectives. • Integrates perspectives from environmental, health and social sciences • Links environmental functioning, nature connectedness, and health/wellbeing outcomes • Identifies critical issues for planning, designing and managing urban environments • Sets out key challenges and priorities for a new interdisciplinary research agenda

Biology · Cross disciplinary · Data science · Discipline · Ecosystem · Geography · Social science · Sociology · Computer Science · Land Use and Ecosystem Services · Psychology · Urban Agriculture and Sustainability · Urban Green Space and Health · Ecology