Espaços verdes urbanos e saúde mental durante o confinamento causado pela Covid-19

Tendais, Iva Alexandra Barbosa; Ribeiro, Ana Isabel

doi:10.18055/finis20184

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“…The recent experience of the COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the protective role of UGS, namely those spaces that are fully accessible and provide recreational opportunities (Kleinschroth and Kowarik, 2020 ; Rodgers, 2020 ). The multiple benefits for mental health are well documented (Tendais, 2020 ; Mayen Huerta and Utomo, 2021 ; Ribeiro et al, 2021 ), with for example Wortzel et al ( 2021 ) finding that youngers experienced lower COVID-19 related worries as a function of their accessibility to UGS. For children, healthy cities are places where they have the freedom to play, explore and socialize, without restrictions or constraints (Kyttä, 2004 ).…”

Section: Toward Healthy Child-friendly and Inclusive Citiesmentioning

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Children's Green Infrastructure: Children and Their Rights to Nature and the City

Vidal

Seixas

2022

Front. Sociol.

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The development of green spaces in cities has corresponded to a need to deal with a series of socio-environmental and health problems felt in urban spaces. However, these are often fragmented or somewhat disconnected interventions that leave out vulnerable and subaltern groups like children, being also commonly based on strictly formatted designs, with more urban furniture than natural elements. In view of the need to make urban spaces healthier, safer, more resilient, and at the same time more child-friendly, in this Conceptual Analysis paper we build from the literature on Urban Green Spaces, Child-Friendly Cities and environments, and Children's Infrastructure to propose the concept of Children Green Infrastructure (CGI), and discuss its application to urban planning, foregrounding the need for fairer, more inclusive and participatory approaches. GGI derives from the Children Infrastructure concept but it puts at the center of the debate the idea of connecting children to nature where they live, learn and play. CGI is based on the assumption that nature should be transversal in urban planning processes, and that it must be perfectly integrated within urban infrastructures, ensuring access to all. Understanding children's needs and integrating their voices in urban planning and design processes are necessary conditions to moving forward to a fairer, more inclusive and truly collective urban project.

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Section: Toward Healthy Child-friendly and Inclusive Citiesmentioning

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Children's Green Infrastructure: Children and Their Rights to Nature and the City

Vidal

Seixas

2022

Front. Sociol.

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“…In Portugal, research on the impacts of environmental factors on mental health started two decades ago, driven by research projects such as Health Impact Assessment (HIA) in Employment Strategies (2009)(2010)(2011)(2012)(2013)(2014), SMAILE (2013SMAILE ( -2015, and Mental Health-Crisis Impact (2015-2017). These projects generated insights about the local and economic factors regarding mental health in the context of crisis [54][55][56][57][58][59][60], particularly important and useful evidence to support research and mental health impact assessment during the COVID-19 health crisis [61,62].…”

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Strategic Assessment of Neighbourhood Environmental Impacts on Mental Health in the Lisbon Region (Portugal): A Strategic Focus and Assessment Framework at the Local Level

2022

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Scientific evidence shows that each place/environment generates specific conditions with associated impacts on the mental health and well-being of the population. A holistic, multilevel and integrated environmental approach to mental health enhances the understanding of this phenomena, supporting the local decision-making processes to improve spatial planning of neighbourhood environments. The aim of this study is to develop a strategic assessment framework, based on four municipalities in the Lisbon Region (Portugal), that explores policy and planning initiatives capable of generating favourable neighbourhood environmental conditions for mental health while also detecting risks. Using baseline results of significant statistical associations between individuals’ perceptions of their neighbourhood environment and their mental health in the Lisbon Region, a Strategic Focus on Environmental and Mental Health Assessment framework (SEmHA) was built, by applying the methodology ‘Strategic Thinking for Sustainability’ in Strategic Environmental Assessment, developed by Partidário in 2012. Taking into account the promotion of the population’s mental health, four critical decision factors of neighbourhood environments were identified: (1) public space quality (e.g., improving sense of place), (2) physical environment quality (e.g., low levels of noise exposure), (3) professional qualification and creation of economic activities (e.g., attracting new economic activities), and (4) services and facilities (e.g., improving access to health and education services). The proposed strategic focus and assessment framework contributes to ensuring that interventions in neighbourhood environments truly achieve community mental health benefits and reduce inequalities, thus helping policy makers to assess impacts at the local level.

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A Review on the Cultural Ecosystem Services Provision of Urban Green Spaces: Perception, Use and Health Benefits

Vidal

Dias

Oliveira

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World Sustainability Series

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Espaços verdes urbanos e saúde mental durante o confinamento causado pela Covid-19

Cited by 7 publications

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Children's Green Infrastructure: Children and Their Rights to Nature and the City

Children's Green Infrastructure: Children and Their Rights to Nature and the City

Strategic Assessment of Neighbourhood Environmental Impacts on Mental Health in the Lisbon Region (Portugal): A Strategic Focus and Assessment Framework at the Local Level

A Review on the Cultural Ecosystem Services Provision of Urban Green Spaces: Perception, Use and Health Benefits

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