Green space and health equity: a systematic review on the potential of green space to reduce health disparities

A Rigolon, MHEM Browning, O McAnirlin… - International journal of …, 2021 - mdpi.com
Disadvantaged groups worldwide, such as low-income and racially/ethnically minoritized
people, experience worse health outcomes than more privileged groups, including wealthier …

Nature contact and human health: A research agenda

H Frumkin, GN Bratman, SJ Breslow… - Environmental …, 2017 - ehp.niehs.nih.gov
Background: At a time of increasing disconnectedness from nature, scientific interest in the
potential health benefits of nature contact has grown. Research in recent decades has …

Expanding the boundaries of justice in urban greening scholarship: toward an emancipatory, antisubordination, intersectional, and relational approach

I Anguelovski, AL Brand, JJT Connolly… - Annals of the …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
Supported by a large body of scholarship, it is increasingly orthodox practice for cities to
deploy urban greening interventions to address diverse socioenvironmental challenges …

New scholarly pathways on green gentrification: What does the urban 'green turn'mean and where is it going?

I Anguelovski, JJT Connolly… - Progress in human …, 2019 - journals.sagepub.com
Scholars in urban political ecology, urban geography, and planning have suggested that
urban greening interventions can create elite enclaves of environmental privilege and green …

Exploring pathways linking greenspace to health: Theoretical and methodological guidance

I Markevych, J Schoierer, T Hartig, A Chudnovsky… - Environmental …, 2017 - Elsevier
Background In a rapidly urbanizing world, many people have little contact with natural
environments, which may affect health and well-being. Existing reviews generally conclude …

Nearby green space and human health: Evaluating accessibility metrics

ED Ekkel, S de Vries - Landscape and urban planning, 2017 - Elsevier
There is growing scientific recognition that contact with nature in general, and contact with
urban green more specific, have the potential to positively contribute to human health. For …

Green spaces and cognitive development in primary schoolchildren

P Dadvand, MJ Nieuwenhuijsen… - Proceedings of the …, 2015 - National Acad Sciences
Exposure to green space has been associated with better physical and mental health.
Although this exposure could also influence cognitive development in children, available …

A review of the health benefits of greenness

P James, RF Banay, JE Hart, F Laden - Current epidemiology reports, 2015 - Springer
Researchers are increasingly exploring how neighborhood greenness, or vegetation, may
affect health behaviors and outcomes. Greenness may influence health by promoting …

Green spaces and general health: roles of mental health status, social support, and physical activity

P Dadvand, X Bartoll, X Basagaña… - Environment …, 2016 - Elsevier
Green spaces are associated with improved health, but little is known about mechanisms
underlying such association. We aimed to assess the association between greenness …

Not all green space is created equal: Biodiversity predicts psychological restorative benefits from urban green space

E Wood, A Harsant, M Dallimer… - Frontiers in …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Contemporary epidemiological methods testing the associations between green space and
psychological well-being treat all vegetation cover as equal. However, there is very good …