Significant spaces: Exploring the health and wellbeing impacts of natural environments

Denise Hewlett; Debra Gray; Richard Gunton; Tom Munro; Sheela Agarwal; Martin Breed; Chris Skelly; Philip Weinstein; Ainara Terradillos; Natalia Lavrushkina; Danny Byrne

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Significant spaces: Exploring the health and wellbeing impacts of natural environments

Denise Hewlett, Debra Gray, Richard Gunton, Tom Munro, Sheela Agarwal, Martin Breed, Chris Skelly, Philip Weinstein, Ainara Terradillos, Natalia Lavrushkina, Danny Byrne

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There is now considerable evidence that access to good quality green and/or blue spaces is good for peoples’ health and wellbeing. Concomitantly, there has been increasing emphasis, in national policies, on finding ways to use the natural environment as a key resource to support people’s health: all of which has been accelerated since the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic. Yet, key research gaps remain. This chapter reviews what we do and don’t know about the impact of nature on people’s health. We argue that the integration of research with planning tools is key to achieving environmental planning and development that is beneficial to health. We consider the challenges of conducting evidence-based research that involves people and natural environments and provide directions for future research that can support policies that have the potential to make full use of green and blue spaces to enhance people’s health and wellbeing.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Managing Protected Areas
Subtitle of host publication	People and Places
Editors	Niall Finneran, Denise Hewlett, Richard Clarke
Place of Publication	Cham, Switzerland
Publisher	Springer
Chapter	10
Pages	167-192
Number of pages	26
ISBN (Electronic)	9783031407833
ISBN (Print)	9783031407826
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-40783-3_10
Publication status	Published - 2024

Keywords

Green and blue spaces
Health
Wellbeing
Research
Policy

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Hewlett, D., Gray, D., Gunton, R., Munro, T., Agarwal, S., Breed, M., Skelly, C., Weinstein, P., Terradillos, A., Lavrushkina, N., & Byrne, D. (2024). Significant spaces: Exploring the health and wellbeing impacts of natural environments. In N. Finneran, D. Hewlett, & R. Clarke (Eds.), Managing Protected Areas: People and Places (pp. 167-192). Springer . https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-40783-3_10

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Significant spaces: Exploring the health and wellbeing impacts of natural environments. / Hewlett, Denise; Gray, Debra; Gunton, Richard et al.
Managing Protected Areas: People and Places. ed. / Niall Finneran; Denise Hewlett; Richard Clarke. Cham, Switzerland: Springer , 2024. p. 167-192.

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