Wellbeing and blue-green space in post-pandemic cities
Drivers, debates and departures
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5697444 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jennifer Dobson (0000-0002-6164-2707, Sheffield Hallam University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 15 |
| Issue | 10 |
| Publication date | 2021-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Geography Compass (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1749-8198 • E-ISSN: 1749-8198 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/gec3.12593 |
| OpenAlex | W3198266429 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 11 |
| References cited | 107 |
Covid-19 has focused attention on the importance of urban green and blue spaces (such as parks and watercourses) for human wellbeing. Less attention has been devoted to how those spaces might contribute to a wider rethinking of relations between humans and the more-than-human world in post-pandemic cities. This article outlines how Covid-19 opens up a broader debate about the future of urban green spaces, especially in the global North, but highlights the limitations of this debate. It signposts emerging directions in inquiry, drawing on current concerns in health geographies and the political ecology of health. These include recognition of the agency and worth of the more-than-human world; the need to understand and value wellbeing in terms of relationships between places, nature and people; and the importance of long-term thinking in practical decision-making and planning. These shifts can be grounded in everyday practice by rethinking the role of urban blue-green space, pointing to a research agenda in which ordinary spaces and practices are understood as contributing to assemblages of wellbeing across whole urban areas, rooted in increased connection between humans and the more-than-human world
Environmental ethics · Geography · Pandemic · Political science · Politics · Social science · Sociology · Art Therapy and Mental Health · Climate Change and Health Impacts · Law · Urban Green Space and Health
Not paper people
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Intended versus experienced benefits of urban blue-green infrastructure
Counterurbanisation in post-covid-19 times. Signifier of resurgent interest in rural space across the global North
Mental health and well-being in times of Covid-19
‘On the mountain, the world is still all right’
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Bringing nature into private urban housing
Evaluating the demand for urban green infrastructure
Uneven geographies of Covid‐19
Towards an understanding of quality and inclusivity in human-environment experiences
What is the Best Dose of Nature and Green Exercise for Improving Mental Health? A Multi-Study Analysis
Recommendations for Keeping Parks and Green Space Accessible for Mental and Physical Health During Covid-19 and Other Pandemics
Twenty years of ecosystem services
Impacts of Covid-19 pandemic on urban park visitation
A complex landscape of inequity in access to urban parks
Cities and Systemic Change for Sustainability
Health Benefits from Nature Experiences Depend on Dose
Urban vacancy and land use legacies
A Scoping Review Mapping Research on Green Space and Associated Mental Health Benefits
Sense of Place, Fast and Slow
The Health Benefits of Urban Nature
Effects of the Covid-19 pandemic on the use and perceptions of urban green space
Urban Parks as Green Buffers During the Covid-19 Pandemic
Critical review on the cooling effect of urban blue-green space
The importance of urban natural areas and urban ecosystem services during the Covid-19 pandemic
A room with a green view
Social prescribing
Challenges and strategies for urban green-space planning in cities undergoing densification
Contact with blue-green spaces during the Covid-19 pandemic lockdown beneficial for mental health
An ecological study investigating the association between access to urban green space and mental health
Defining place-keeping
Flourishing in nature
The Relationship Between Nature Connectedness and Eudaimonic Well-Being
Beyond knowing nature
Shaping cities for health
The impact of urbanisation on nature dose and the implications for human health
The role of the urban landscape on species with contrasting dispersal ability
Applying the pathways to nature connectedness at a societal scale
Rekindling old friendships in new landscapes
No evidence of an extinction of experience or emotional disconnect from nature in urban Singapore
Urban nature in a time of crisis
The Relationship between Nature Deprivation and Individual Wellbeing across Urban Gradients under Covid-19
Do low-income neighbourhoods have the least green space? A cross-sectional study of Australia’s most populous cities
Ecological economics and degrowth
Scaling up but losing out? Water commons' dilemmas between transnational movements and grassroots struggles in Latin America
Payments for ecosystem services or collective stewardship of Mother Earth? Applying deliberative valuation in an indigenous community in Colombia
Indigenous environmental justice and sustainability
The grounded city
Covid-19-induced visitor boom reveals the importance of forests as critical infrastructure
Austerity urbanism
Nature doesn't judge you – how urban nature supports young people's mental health and wellbeing in a diverse UK city
Theories of practices
Participatory budgeting
What are shared and social values of ecosystems
Radical ruralities in practice
Health-environment futures
Towards an integrated political ecology of health and bodies
Pathways to urban transformation
Ecosystem services in urban plans
The magic of the mundane
Re-orienting nature-based solutions with more-than-human thinking
Mental well-being and quality-of-life benefits of inclusion in nature for adults with disabilities and their caregivers
Financing the future of green infrastructure planning
Provision of urban green spaces
Assembling Justice Spaces
Resilience Thinking
Progressive localism and the construction of political alternatives
Parks and People
Black Nature
Health geographies II
Engaged witnessing
Atmospheres of recovery
Resilience
Evaluating sustainability transitions pathways
Triangulating health
Urban green space, public health, and environmental justice
The politics of urban assemblages
Value, (use) values, and the ecologies of capital
Putting community to use in environmental policy making
The "healthy dose" of nature
Green space as a buffer between stressful life events and health
Sustaining municipal parks in an era of neoliberal austerity
Austerity urbanism in England
Environmental Justice and Economic Degrowth
| Unique citing works | 11 |
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| Citations per year | 2,75 |
| Citation span | 2022 - 2026 (5) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 9 |