Valuing nature through attention to urban greening offers some remedy to 'Extinction of
Experience'–the decline in diversity and quality of people's relationships to nature …

Exercise, spending time in nature and feeling part of a supportive community all contribute to
better physical and mental health and to healthy ageing. This focused ethnography …

There is a growing body of research signaling the health and wellbeing benefits of being in
blue space. Here, we advance this intellectual agenda by critically examining perceptions …

New Zealand's coastal blue spaces, from harbours to beaches, provide diverse wellbeing
benefits but can also be sites of danger, fear, and cultural contestation. This qualitative …

Four general research strands are known to study the salutogenic aspects of urban surface
waters (urban blue spaces): the experiential, the experimental, the preference-based, and …

This chapter explores the health-enabling and socially connective potential of the sea for
young asylum seekers participating in a surfing programme for the first time on the south …

This chapter explores diverse, relational, and embodied ways in which nature interactions
are experienced, and how these interactions enable opportunities beneficial for mental …

This study contributes to a body of research on health-enhancing'blue spaces' by
elaborating on the optimal conditions for promoting physical activity at the coast, what …