Anna Jorgensen
Biographic Data
| ID | 3720893 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Anna Jorgensen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Anna |
| FAMILY NAME | Jorgensen |
| SIGNATURE | JØRGENSEN A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Sheffield |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5614-567X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 29 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 102 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 29 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
I Just Want to be Acknowledged: Suicidal Ideation Experiences among Sexual Minority Students at a Religiously Affiliated University
Research finds that sexual minority university students experience considerable psychological and emotional distress. Furthermore, a recent study at Brigham Young University (BYU)-a university affiliated with The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints-found that suicidality prevalence and severity were twice as high among sexual minority students compared to their heterosexual peers. To better understand this finding, we interviewed ten sexu…
Social Support: The Effect on Nocturnal Blood Pressure Dipping
Social support has long been associated with cardiovascular disease risk assessed with blood pressure (BP). BP exhibits a circadian rhythm in which BP should dip between 10 and 15% overnight. Blunted nocturnal dipping (non-dipping) is a predictor of cardiovascular morbidity and mortality independent of clinical BP and is a better predictor of cardiovascular disease risk than either daytime or nighttime BP. However, it is often examined in hyperte…
Can we model cultural ecosystem services, and are we measuring the right things
Cultural ecosystem services (CES), a key aspect of nature's contributions to people, remain a challenge to incorporate into decision making. One contributing factor is the difficulty of defining and describing these, due partly to: ongoing poor understanding of what drives people to interact with nature, a lack of appropriate data to quantify these interactions, and basic difficulties in measuring and modelling the complex array of social, psycho…
Negotiating Complexity: Challenges to Implementing Community-Led Nature-Based Solutions in England Pre- and Post-Covid-19
Nature-based solutions (NbS), including green social prescribing (GSP), are sustainable ways to address health and wellbeing, especially since the COVID-19 pandemic exacerbated the strain on healthcare. NbS require national and local cross-sector coordination across complex, interrelated systems, but little is known about the specific challenges this poses for community-led NbS. We carried out a traditional literature review to establish the cont…
Nature’s Role in Supporting Health during the Covid-19 Pandemic: A Geospatial and Socioecological Study
The COVID-19 pandemic has brought about unprecedented changes to human lifestyles across the world. The virus and associated social restriction measures have been linked to an increase in mental health conditions. A considerable body of evidence shows that spending time in and engaging with nature can improve human health and wellbeing. Our study explores nature's role in supporting health during the COVID-19 pandemic. We created web-based questi…
The magic of the mundane: The vulnerable web of connections between urban nature and wellbeing
Where the wild things are! Do urban green spaces with greater avian biodiversity promote more positive emotions in humans?
Urban green space can help mitigate the negative impacts of urban living and provide positive effects on citizens’ mood, health and well-being. Questions remain, however, as to whether all types of green space are equally beneficial, and if not, what landscape forms or key features optimise the desired benefits. For example, it has been cited that urban landscapes rich in wildlife (high biodiversity) may promote more positive emotions and enhance…
Does a natural environment enhance the effectiveness of Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR)? Examining the mental health and wellbeing, and nature connectedness benefits
Rekindling old friendships in new landscapes: The environment–microbiome–health axis in the realms of landscape research
Humans are spending less time in biodiverse environments, and according to the Old Friends and Biodiversity hypotheses, this has led to fewer interactions with diverse immunoregulatory micro‐organisms or ‘old friends’. Non‐communicable diseases such as asthma and inflammatory bowel disease are on the rise, and the development and progression of these ‘modern’ diseases may be attributed in part, to the breakdown of this evolutionary relationship b…
Let Nature Be Thy Medicine: A Socioecological Exploration of Green Prescribing in the UK
Prescribing nature-based health interventions (green prescribing)-such as therapeutic horticulture or conservation activities-is an emerging transdisciplinary strategy focussed on reducing noncommunicable diseases. However, little is known about the practice of, and socioecological constraints/opportunities associated with, green prescribing in the UK. Furthermore, the distribution of green prescribing has yet to be comprehensively mapped. In thi…
Population-level linkages between urban greenspace and health inequality: The case for using multiple indicators of neighbourhood greenspace
Exposure to greenspace in urban environments is associated with a range of improved health and well-being outcomes. There is a need to understand which aspects of greenspace influence which components of health. We investigate the relationship of indicators of greenspace quantity (total and specific types of greenspace), accessibility and quality with poor general health, depression, and severe mental illness, in the city of Sheffield, UK. We fin…
What determines how we see nature? Perceptions of naturalness in designed urban green spaces
The multiple benefits of ‘nature’ for human health and well‐being have been documented at an increasing rate over the past 30 years. A growing body of research also demonstrates the positive well‐being benefits of nature‐connectedness. There is, however, a lack of evidence about how people's subjective nature experience relates to deliberately designed and managed urban green infrastructure (GI) with definable ‘objective’ characteristics such as …
Understanding landscape change in a former brownfield site
The term palimpsest is sometimes used as a way of conceptualising historic cultural landscapes that have been subject to changes. This paper uses an expanded version of the palimpsest concept (a temporal collage intermingling memories with tangible and intangible elements from different time periods across a range of scales) to focus on a former military site on the Thames Estuary, which, after a period of dereliction, has been developed as a bir…
Green and ecological networks in Sheffield, UK
The notion of ecological and green networks is founded on the coherent and connected systems of green and open spaces in the landscape. However, these networks have generally been the outcome of a combination of opportunistic and deliberative planning decisions over time. This study analysed the existing green and ecological network approaches in the case of Sheffield, UK to identify the criteria for site selection and reveal similarities and dif…
Understanding the socioeconomic equity of publicly accessible greenspace distribution: The example of Sheffield, UK
Urban greenspace can improve the health of local residents by facilitating physical activity, psychological restoration, and social contacts, as well as through amelioration of the physical environment and immune system modulation. In some cases, greenspace exposure has been reported to reduce health inequalities associated with deprivation. However, studies investigating the socioeconomic equity of greenspace distribution find conflicting result…
Perceived species-richness in urban green spaces: Cues, accuracy and well-being impacts
Evidence that urban green-space promotes health and well-being of urban residents is increasing. The role of biodiversity is unclear: perceived biodiversity may be important, but how accurately it is perceived and the factors influencing this accuracy are poorly understood. We use experimental perennial urban meadows in southern England to investigate the impact of creating biodiverse habitats on green-space users’ i) physical and mental health, …
A city is still a landscape
It is Autumn in the UK. I am packing my suitcase in readiness for a work-related trip to Latin America. I check the weather in the cities I will visit: Santiago, Chile; Buenos Aires, Argentina; Med
All about the ‘wow factor’? The relationships between aesthetics, restorative effect and perceived biodiversity in designed urban planting
Urban populations experience the multiple health and well-being benefits of nature predominantly via urban green infrastructure. If this is to be designed and managed optimally for both nature and people, there is an urgent need for greater understanding of the complex relationships between human aesthetic experience, well-being and actual or perceived biodiversity. This integrative study assessed human aesthetic reaction, restorative effect and …
The secret life of a learned society
What is happening to landscape
Parkwood Springs - A fringe in time: Temporality and heritage in an urban fringe landscape
This paper aims to advance the theory and practice of landscape heritage planning, design and management, focusing especially on the question: what are the relationships between landscape narratives - the ways in which we tell the story of a landscape - and landscape heritage outcomes (landscape practice - planning, design, management - based on particular readings of the past)? The paper explores this question through a critical examination of t…
Forty years of Landscape Research
Papers of four decades published in Landscape Research are reviewed in order to chronicle the journal’s development and to assess the academic performance of the journal relative to its own aims. Landscape Research intends to reach a wide audience, to have a broad thematic coverage and to publish different types of papers with various methodological orientations. Cutting across these first aims are the interdisciplinary ambition of the journal, a…
Evaluating restoration in urban green spaces: Does setting type make a difference?
Shades of Green: Measuring the Ecology of Urban Green Space in the Context of Human Health and Well-Being
In this paper we review and analyze the recent research literature on urban green space and human health and well-being, with an emphasis on studies that attempt to measure biodiversity and other green space concepts relevant to urban ecological restoration. We first conduct a broad scale assessment of the literature to identify typologies of urban green space and human health and well-being measures, and use a research mapping exercise to detect…
Relationships between Environmental Values and the Acceptability of Mobile Telecommunications Development in a Protected Area
This paper seeks to enhance understandings of underlying reasons for attitudes towards a recent landscape phenomenon— mobile telecommunications development— in a protected area. A public questionnaire survey was conducted, using photographs of mobile telecommunications development installed in the Peak District National Park, England. Building on existing theories about landscape perceptions and environmental values, the study examined the factor…
Ambivalent landscapes—wilderness in the urban interstices
This paper explores the origins and development of ambivalent responses to particular contemporary urban landscapes in historical ideas about human relationships with nature and wilderness, and suggests that post-modern wilderness may be found in the urban interstices: in woodland, abandoned allotments, river corridors, derelict or brownfield sites and especially areas in which the spontaneous growth of vegetation through natural succession sugge…
Understanding the socioeconomic equity of publicly accessible greenspace distribution: The example of Sheffield, UK
Urban greenspace can improve the health of local residents by facilitating physical activity, psychological restoration, and social contacts, as well as through amelioration of the physical environment and immune system modulation. In some cases, greenspace exposure has been reported to reduce health inequalities associated with deprivation. However, studies investigating the socioeconomic equity of greenspace distribution find conflicting result…
Forty years of Landscape Research
Papers of four decades published in Landscape Research are reviewed in order to chronicle the journal’s development and to assess the academic performance of the journal relative to its own aims. Landscape Research intends to reach a wide audience, to have a broad thematic coverage and to publish different types of papers with various methodological orientations. Cutting across these first aims are the interdisciplinary ambition of the journal, a…
The magic of the mundane: The vulnerable web of connections between urban nature and wellbeing
Relationships between Environmental Values and the Acceptability of Mobile Telecommunications Development in a Protected Area
This paper seeks to enhance understandings of underlying reasons for attitudes towards a recent landscape phenomenon— mobile telecommunications development— in a protected area. A public questionnaire survey was conducted, using photographs of mobile telecommunications development installed in the Peak District National Park, England. Building on existing theories about landscape perceptions and environmental values, the study examined the factor…
Population-level linkages between urban greenspace and health inequality: The case for using multiple indicators of neighbourhood greenspace
Exposure to greenspace in urban environments is associated with a range of improved health and well-being outcomes. There is a need to understand which aspects of greenspace influence which components of health. We investigate the relationship of indicators of greenspace quantity (total and specific types of greenspace), accessibility and quality with poor general health, depression, and severe mental illness, in the city of Sheffield, UK. We fin…
Understanding landscape change in a former brownfield site
The term palimpsest is sometimes used as a way of conceptualising historic cultural landscapes that have been subject to changes. This paper uses an expanded version of the palimpsest concept (a temporal collage intermingling memories with tangible and intangible elements from different time periods across a range of scales) to focus on a former military site on the Thames Estuary, which, after a period of dereliction, has been developed as a bir…
What is happening to landscape
Green and ecological networks in Sheffield, UK
The notion of ecological and green networks is founded on the coherent and connected systems of green and open spaces in the landscape. However, these networks have generally been the outcome of a combination of opportunistic and deliberative planning decisions over time. This study analysed the existing green and ecological network approaches in the case of Sheffield, UK to identify the criteria for site selection and reveal similarities and dif…
A city is still a landscape
It is Autumn in the UK. I am packing my suitcase in readiness for a work-related trip to Latin America. I check the weather in the cities I will visit: Santiago, Chile; Buenos Aires, Argentina; Med
Parkwood Springs - A fringe in time: Temporality and heritage in an urban fringe landscape
This paper aims to advance the theory and practice of landscape heritage planning, design and management, focusing especially on the question: what are the relationships between landscape narratives - the ways in which we tell the story of a landscape - and landscape heritage outcomes (landscape practice - planning, design, management - based on particular readings of the past)? The paper explores this question through a critical examination of t…
Woodland spaces and edges: Their impact on perception of safety and preference
Danmarks Havekunst, Vol. II: 1800-1945
Balancing landscape and development: A case study of mobile telecommunications development in the Peak District National Park, England
Ambivalent landscapes—wilderness in the urban interstices
This paper explores the origins and development of ambivalent responses to particular contemporary urban landscapes in historical ideas about human relationships with nature and wilderness, and suggests that post-modern wilderness may be found in the urban interstices: in woodland, abandoned allotments, river corridors, derelict or brownfield sites and especially areas in which the spontaneous growth of vegetation through natural succession sugge…
Relationships between Environmental Values and the Acceptability of Mobile Telecommunications Development in a Protected Area
This paper seeks to enhance understandings of underlying reasons for attitudes towards a recent landscape phenomenon— mobile telecommunications development— in a protected area. A public questionnaire survey was conducted, using photographs of mobile telecommunications development installed in the Peak District National Park, England. Building on existing theories about landscape perceptions and environmental values, the study examined the factor…
Shades of Green: Measuring the Ecology of Urban Green Space in the Context of Human Health and Well-Being
In this paper we review and analyze the recent research literature on urban green space and human health and well-being, with an emphasis on studies that attempt to measure biodiversity and other green space concepts relevant to urban ecological restoration. We first conduct a broad scale assessment of the literature to identify typologies of urban green space and human health and well-being measures, and use a research mapping exercise to detect…
Evaluating restoration in urban green spaces: Does setting type make a difference?
Forty years of Landscape Research
Papers of four decades published in Landscape Research are reviewed in order to chronicle the journal’s development and to assess the academic performance of the journal relative to its own aims. Landscape Research intends to reach a wide audience, to have a broad thematic coverage and to publish different types of papers with various methodological orientations. Cutting across these first aims are the interdisciplinary ambition of the journal, a…
All about the ‘wow factor’? The relationships between aesthetics, restorative effect and perceived biodiversity in designed urban planting
Urban populations experience the multiple health and well-being benefits of nature predominantly via urban green infrastructure. If this is to be designed and managed optimally for both nature and people, there is an urgent need for greater understanding of the complex relationships between human aesthetic experience, well-being and actual or perceived biodiversity. This integrative study assessed human aesthetic reaction, restorative effect and …
The secret life of a learned society
What is happening to landscape
Parkwood Springs - A fringe in time: Temporality and heritage in an urban fringe landscape
This paper aims to advance the theory and practice of landscape heritage planning, design and management, focusing especially on the question: what are the relationships between landscape narratives - the ways in which we tell the story of a landscape - and landscape heritage outcomes (landscape practice - planning, design, management - based on particular readings of the past)? The paper explores this question through a critical examination of t…
Perceived species-richness in urban green spaces: Cues, accuracy and well-being impacts
Evidence that urban green-space promotes health and well-being of urban residents is increasing. The role of biodiversity is unclear: perceived biodiversity may be important, but how accurately it is perceived and the factors influencing this accuracy are poorly understood. We use experimental perennial urban meadows in southern England to investigate the impact of creating biodiverse habitats on green-space users’ i) physical and mental health, …
A city is still a landscape
It is Autumn in the UK. I am packing my suitcase in readiness for a work-related trip to Latin America. I check the weather in the cities I will visit: Santiago, Chile; Buenos Aires, Argentina; Med
What determines how we see nature? Perceptions of naturalness in designed urban green spaces
The multiple benefits of ‘nature’ for human health and well‐being have been documented at an increasing rate over the past 30 years. A growing body of research also demonstrates the positive well‐being benefits of nature‐connectedness. There is, however, a lack of evidence about how people's subjective nature experience relates to deliberately designed and managed urban green infrastructure (GI) with definable ‘objective’ characteristics such as …
Understanding landscape change in a former brownfield site
The term palimpsest is sometimes used as a way of conceptualising historic cultural landscapes that have been subject to changes. This paper uses an expanded version of the palimpsest concept (a temporal collage intermingling memories with tangible and intangible elements from different time periods across a range of scales) to focus on a former military site on the Thames Estuary, which, after a period of dereliction, has been developed as a bir…
Green and ecological networks in Sheffield, UK
The notion of ecological and green networks is founded on the coherent and connected systems of green and open spaces in the landscape. However, these networks have generally been the outcome of a combination of opportunistic and deliberative planning decisions over time. This study analysed the existing green and ecological network approaches in the case of Sheffield, UK to identify the criteria for site selection and reveal similarities and dif…
Understanding the socioeconomic equity of publicly accessible greenspace distribution: The example of Sheffield, UK
Urban greenspace can improve the health of local residents by facilitating physical activity, psychological restoration, and social contacts, as well as through amelioration of the physical environment and immune system modulation. In some cases, greenspace exposure has been reported to reduce health inequalities associated with deprivation. However, studies investigating the socioeconomic equity of greenspace distribution find conflicting result…
Where the wild things are! Do urban green spaces with greater avian biodiversity promote more positive emotions in humans?
Urban green space can help mitigate the negative impacts of urban living and provide positive effects on citizens’ mood, health and well-being. Questions remain, however, as to whether all types of green space are equally beneficial, and if not, what landscape forms or key features optimise the desired benefits. For example, it has been cited that urban landscapes rich in wildlife (high biodiversity) may promote more positive emotions and enhance…
Does a natural environment enhance the effectiveness of Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR)? Examining the mental health and wellbeing, and nature connectedness benefits
Rekindling old friendships in new landscapes: The environment–microbiome–health axis in the realms of landscape research
Humans are spending less time in biodiverse environments, and according to the Old Friends and Biodiversity hypotheses, this has led to fewer interactions with diverse immunoregulatory micro‐organisms or ‘old friends’. Non‐communicable diseases such as asthma and inflammatory bowel disease are on the rise, and the development and progression of these ‘modern’ diseases may be attributed in part, to the breakdown of this evolutionary relationship b…
Let Nature Be Thy Medicine: A Socioecological Exploration of Green Prescribing in the UK
Prescribing nature-based health interventions (green prescribing)-such as therapeutic horticulture or conservation activities-is an emerging transdisciplinary strategy focussed on reducing noncommunicable diseases. However, little is known about the practice of, and socioecological constraints/opportunities associated with, green prescribing in the UK. Furthermore, the distribution of green prescribing has yet to be comprehensively mapped. In thi…
Population-level linkages between urban greenspace and health inequality: The case for using multiple indicators of neighbourhood greenspace
Exposure to greenspace in urban environments is associated with a range of improved health and well-being outcomes. There is a need to understand which aspects of greenspace influence which components of health. We investigate the relationship of indicators of greenspace quantity (total and specific types of greenspace), accessibility and quality with poor general health, depression, and severe mental illness, in the city of Sheffield, UK. We fin…
Nature’s Role in Supporting Health during the Covid-19 Pandemic: A Geospatial and Socioecological Study
The COVID-19 pandemic has brought about unprecedented changes to human lifestyles across the world. The virus and associated social restriction measures have been linked to an increase in mental health conditions. A considerable body of evidence shows that spending time in and engaging with nature can improve human health and wellbeing. Our study explores nature's role in supporting health during the COVID-19 pandemic. We created web-based questi…
The magic of the mundane: The vulnerable web of connections between urban nature and wellbeing
Geography (24 works) · Urban Green Space and Health (21 works) · Psychology (15 works) · Sociology (13 works) · Land Use and Ecosystem Services (12 works) · Medicine (11 works) · Environmental planning (10 works) · Environmental resource management (9 works) · Political science (9 works) · Urban Agriculture and Sustainability (9 works)