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Birch, J. (2017) Connecting with nature in the city is more than visiting ‘green space’, Society Matters, 1 November 2017. http://bit.ly/2qWc8Gn

Birch, J., Rishbeth, C. and Payne, S. (2020) Nature doesn’t judge you – how urban nature supports young people’s mental health and wellbeing in a diverse UK city. Health and Place. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.healthplace.2020.102296

Brindley, P., Cameron, R.W., Ersoy, E., Jorgensen, A. and Maheswaran, R. (2019) Is more always better? Exploring field survey and social media indicators of quality of urban greenspace, in relation to health, Urban Forestry & Urban Greening, Volume 39, 2019, pp. 45-54, ISSN 1618-8667. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ufug.2019.01.015

Brindley, P., Jorgensen, A. and Maheswaran, R. (2018) Domestic gardens and self-reported health: a national population study, International Journal of Health Geographics. doi: https://doi.org/10.1186/s12942-018-0148-6

Cameron R. W. F., Brindley, P., Mears, M., McEwan, K., Ferguson, F., Sheffield, D., Jorgensen, A., Riley, J., Goodrick, J., Ballard, L. and Richardson, M. (2020) Where the wild things are! Do urban green spaces with greater avian biodiversity promote more positive emotions in humans? Urban Ecosystems. doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11252-020-00929-z

Dempsey, N. (2020) Measuring the gap between rhetoric and practice: examining urban green space interventions post-implementation, in Dempsey, N. and Dobson, J. (eds.) Naturally challenged: contested perceptions and practices in urban green spaces, Springer, Basel, pp. 167-187.

Dempsey, N and Dobson, J. (2020) (eds.) Naturally challenged: contested perceptions and practices in urban green spaces, Springer, Basel.

Dobson J, (2018) From contest to context: urban green space and public policy. People, Place and Policy Online, 12 (2), 72-83, 14 December 2018. http://bit.ly/2QAiPIj. doi: 10.3351/ppp.2018.3824435278

Dobson, J., Birch, J., Brindley, P., Henneberry, J., McEwan, K., Mears, M., Richardson, M. and Jorgensen, A. (2021) The magic of the mundane: the vulnerable web of connections between urban nature and wellbeing. Cities, 108, 102989-102989. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cities.2020.102989

Dobson, J. and Dempsey, N. (2019) Working out what works: the role of tacit knowledge where urban greenspace research, policy and practice intersect. Sustainability 11(18), 5029. doi: 10.3390/su11185029

Dobson, J and Dempsey, N. (2018) Beyond ‘green is good’ – the policy and practice dilemmas of urban nature and human wellbeing. Town & Country Planning, December 2018, 514-518.

Dobson, J. and Dempsey, N. (2020) Mind the gap: does what we know about greenspace and wellbeing change what we do?, in Dempsey, N. and Dobson, J. (eds.) Naturally challenged: contested perceptions and practices in urban green spaces, Springer, Basel, pp. 143-163.

Dobson, J. (2018) Green spaces help combat loneliness – but they demand investment, The Conversation, October 23, 2018 12.38pm BST. http://bit.ly/2JaQlTo

Dobson, J. and Dempsey, N. (2021) Known but not done: how logics of inaction limit the benefits of urban green spaces. Landscape Research. doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/01426397.2020.1864819

Dobson, J., Birch, J., Brindley, P., Henneberry, J., McEwan, K., Mears, M., Richardson, M. and Jorgensen, A. (2021) The magic of the mundane: the vulnerable web of connections between urban nature and wellbeing. Cities, 108, January 2021. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cities.2020.102989

Erhan, L., Ndubuaku, M., Ferrara, E., Richardson, M., Sheffield, D., Ferguson, F. J., Brindley, P. and Liotta, A (2019) Analysing objective and subjective data in social sciences: implications for smart cities, IEEE Access, pp. 1-1. doi: 10.1109/ACCESS.2019.2897217

Henneberry, J. (2018) How the neoliberal obsession with valuing nature changes our understanding of it, The Conversation, 3 December 2018 4.43pm GMT. http://bit.ly/2Fhfahh

McEwan, K., Richardson, M., Sheffield, D., Ferguson, F. J. and Brindley, P. (2021) Assessing the feasibility of public engagement in a smartphone app to improve well-being through nature connection. PsyEcology, 12(1), pp. 45-75. doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/21711976.2020.1851878

McEwan, K., Cameron, R., Ferguson, F. and Richardson. M. (2020) The good things in urban nature: a thematic framework for optimising urban planning for nature connectedness. Landscape & Urban Planning. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landurbplan.2019.103687

McEwan, K., Richardson, M., Brindley, P., Sheffield, D., Tait, C., Johnson, S., Sutch, H. and Ferguson, F. J. Shmapped: development of an app to record and promote the well-being benefits of noticing urban nature, Translational Behavioral Medicine. doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/tbm/ibz027

McEwan, K., Richardson, M., Sheffield, D., Ferguson, F. J. and Brindley, P. (2019) A smartphone app for improving mental health through connecting with urban nature. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 16(18), 3373. doi: https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph16183373

Mears, M., Brindley, P., Barrows, P., Richardson, M. and Maheswaran, R. (2021) Mapping urban greenspace use from mobile phone GPS data. PLoS ONE, 16(7). doi: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0248622

Mears, M., Brindley, P., Baxter, I., Maheswaran, R. and Jorgensen, A. (2020) Neighbourhood greenspace influences on childhood obesity in Sheffield, UK. Pediatric Obesity. doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/ijpo.12629

Mears, M., Brindley, P., Jorgensen, A. and Maheswaran, R. (2020) Population-level linkages between urban greenspace and health inequality: the case for using multiple indicators of neighbourhood greenspace. Health & Place. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.healthplace.2020.102284

Mears, M., Brindley, P., Jorgensen, A., Ersoy, E. and Maheswaran, R. (2019) Greenspace spatial characteristics and human health in an urban environment: an epidemiological study using landscape metrics in Sheffield, UK, Ecological Indicators, 106: 105464. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolind.2019.105464

Mears, M., Brindley, P., Maheswaran, R., Jorgensen, A. (2019) Understanding the socioeconomic equity of publicly accessible greenspace distribution: the example of Sheffield, UK, Geoforum, 103, 126-137. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2019.04.016

Mears, M. and Brindley, P. (2020) Measuring urban greenspace distribution equity: the importance of appropriate methodological approaches, ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, 2019, 8, 286. doi: https://doi.org/10.3390/ijgi8060286

Rishbeth, C. and Birch, J. (2021) Urban nature and transnational lives. Population Space and Place, 27(4), online first. doi: 10.1002/psp.2416

Policy and practice briefs

Five principles for policymaking (PDF, 506KB)

What policymakers need to know (PDF, 74KB)

What planners and local government policymakers need to know (PDF, 85KB)

What greenspace managers need to know (PDF, 91KB)

What healthcare professionals need to know (PDF, 90KB)

What voluntary and community groups need to know (PDF, 91KB)

Supporting people with mental health difficulties – how urban nature can help (PDF, 106KB)

Supporting young people’s mental health – how urban nature can help (PDF, 93KB)

Supporting people’s mental wellbeing through urban nature – challenging inequalities (PDF, 203KB)

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