Biodiversity in the city: key challenges for urban green space management

MFJ Aronson, CA Lepczyk, KL Evans… - Frontiers in Ecology …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Cities play important roles in the conservation of global biodiversity, particularly through the
planning and management of urban green spaces (UGS). However, UGS management is …

What are the benefits of interacting with nature?

LE Keniger, KJ Gaston, KN Irvine, RA Fuller - International journal of …, 2013 - mdpi.com
There is mounting empirical evidence that interacting with nature delivers measurable
benefits to people. Reviews of this topic have generally focused on a specific type of benefit …

Spending time in the garden is positively associated with health and wellbeing: Results from a national survey in England

S de Bell, M White, A Griffiths, A Darlow, T Taylor… - Landscape and urban …, 2020 - Elsevier
Research has found that natural environments within urban areas are associated with
benefits for human health and wellbeing. However, most studies have primarily focused on …

Doses of nearby nature simultaneously associated with multiple health benefits

DTC Cox, DF Shanahan, HL Hudson, RA Fuller… - International journal of …, 2017 - mdpi.com
Exposure to nature provides a wide range of health benefits. A significant proportion of these
are delivered close to home, because this offers an immediate and easily accessible …

Green façades: Their contribution to stress recovery and well-being in high-density cities

M Elsadek, B Liu, Z Lian - Urban Forestry & Urban Greening, 2019 - Elsevier
Rapid urbanization and the lack of green infrastructure threaten the health of urban dwellers.
Green façades have been proposed as a green infrastructure solution to compensate for the …

Scaling up from gardens: biodiversity conservation in urban environments

MA Goddard, AJ Dougill, TG Benton - Trends in ecology & evolution, 2010 - cell.com
As urbanisation increases globally and the natural environment becomes increasingly
fragmented, the importance of urban green spaces for biodiversity conservation grows. In …

Urban reconciliation ecology: the potential of living roofs and walls

RA Francis, J Lorimer - Journal of environmental management, 2011 - Elsevier
Reconciling human and non-human use of urban regions to support biological conservation
represents a major challenge for the 21st century. The concept of reconciliation ecology, by …

Avian productivity in urban landscapes: a review and meta‐analysis

DE Chamberlain, AR Cannon, MP Toms, DI Leech… - Ibis, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
There is an urgent need to thoroughly review and comprehend the effects of urbanization on
wildlife in order to understand both the ecological implications of increasing urbanization …

Why garden for wildlife? Social and ecological drivers, motivations and barriers for biodiversity management in residential landscapes

MA Goddard, AJ Dougill, TG Benton - Ecological economics, 2013 - Elsevier
Residential landscapes with private gardens are major land covers in cities and their
sustainable management is paramount for achieving a resilient urban future. Here we focus …

Urban bird feeding: Connecting people with nature

DTC Cox, KJ Gaston - PloS one, 2016 - journals.plos.org
At a time of unprecedented biodiversity loss, researchers are increasingly recognizing the
broad range of benefits provided to humankind by nature. However, as people live more …