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 …

[HTML][HTML] Time spent in nature is associated with increased pro-environmental attitudes and behaviors

NV DeVille, LP Tomasso, OP Stoddard, GE Wilt… - International journal of …, 2021 - mdpi.com
Urbanization, screen dependency, and the changing nature of childhood and parenting
have led to increased time indoors, creating physical and emotional distancing from nature …

Pathways to a healthy net-zero future: report of the Lancet Pathfinder Commission

S Whitmee, R Green, K Belesova, S Hassan, S Cuevas… - The Lancet, 2024 - thelancet.com
Executive summary Deep, rapid cuts in greenhouse gas emissions are needed to limit future
global temperature increases to 1· 5 C above pre-industrial levels, but current progress is …

[HTML][HTML] Exploring mechanistic pathways linking urban green and blue space to mental wellbeing before and after urban regeneration of a greenway: Evidence from …

R Wang, MHEM Browning, F Kee, RF Hunter - Landscape and Urban …, 2023 - Elsevier
Urban regeneration of urban green and blue spaces (UGBS) is assumed to benefit
residents' mental wellbeing. However, the mechanistic pathways linking UGBS to wellbeing …

The urban environment and cardiometabolic health

S Rajagopalan, A Vergara-Martel, J Zhong… - Circulation, 2024 - ahajournals.org
Urban environments contribute substantially to the rising burden of cardiometabolic
diseases worldwide. Cities are complex adaptive systems that continually exchange …

The dynamic relationship between social cohesion and urban green space in diverse communities: Opportunities and challenges to public health

V Jennings, A Rigolon, J Thompson, A Murray… - International journal of …, 2024 - mdpi.com
Social cohesion is a key factor within social determinants of health and well-being. Urban
green spaces can provide environments that potentially facilitate meaningful and positive …

A 10 m resolution urban green space map for major Latin American cities from Sentinel-2 remote sensing images and OpenStreetMap

Y Ju, I Dronova, X Delclòs-Alió - Scientific Data, 2022 - nature.com
Map** is fundamental to studies on urban green space (UGS). Despite a growing archive
of land cover maps (where UGS is included) at global and regional scales, map** efforts …

[HTML][HTML] “A park is not just a park”: Toward counter-narratives to advance equitable green space policy in the United States

A Rigolon, E Yañez, MJ Aboelata, R Bennett - Cities, 2022 - Elsevier
Policy advocacy to address socioeconomic and racial/ethnic inequities in access to urban
green space (eg, parks) in the US and elsewhere are often stymied by two dominant …

Examining psychosocial and economic barriers to green space access for racialised individuals and families: a narrative literature review of the evidence to date

T Robinson, N Robertson, F Curtis, N Darko… - International journal of …, 2022 - mdpi.com
Background: Social prescribing (such as green social prescribing), aims to address health
disparities cross-culturally to improve well-being. However, evidence highlights racial …