Yuille, A. orcid.org/0000-0003-2327-2263, Davies, J., Green, M. et al. (33 more authors) (2024) Moving from features to functions: bridging disciplinary understandings of urban environments to support healthy people and ecosystems. Health & Place, 90. 103368. ISSN 1353-8292
Abstract
Contact with nature can contribute to health and wellbeing, but knowledge gaps persist regarding the environmental characteristics that promote these benefits. Understanding and maximising these benefits is particularly important in urban areas, where opportunities for such contact is limited. At the same time, we are facing climate and ecological crises which require policy and practice to support ecosystem functioning. Policies are increasingly being oriented towards delivering benefits for people and nature simultaneously. However, different disciplinary understandings of environments and environmental quality present challenges to this agenda. This paper highlights key knowledge gaps concerning linkages between nature and health. It then describes two perspectives on environmental quality, based respectively in environmental sciences and social sciences. It argues that understanding the linkages between these perspectives is vital to enable urban environments to be planned, designed and managed for the benefit of both environmental functioning and human health. Finally, it identifies key challenges and priorities for integrating these different disciplinary perspectives.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2024 The Authors. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Licence (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
Keywords: | Health; Wellbeing; Nature; Urban environmental quality; Ecosystem functioning; Nature connectedness |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Social Sciences (Sheffield) > School of Architecture and Landscape |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 22 Oct 2024 15:57 |
Last Modified: | 22 Oct 2024 15:57 |
Published Version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.healthplace.2024.10336... |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Elsevier |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1016/j.healthplace.2024.103368 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:218715 |
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