Urban natural environments as nature-based solutions for improved public health – A systematic review of reviews

Bosch, Matilda van den; Sang, Åsa Ode

doi:10.1016/j.envres.2017.05.040

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“…Nature-based solutions refer to a sustainable approach using the natural environment as a means of providing effective solutions to a number of challenges in society and the environment while simultaneously improving societal and environmental outcomes [1,6]. Nature-based solutions can enhance air quality, decrease noise pollution, improve water quality, reduce pollution, and decrease possible natural disasters, all of which are beneficial for the environment [3,4]. Moreover, human lives can be changed in healthy and positive ways through green spaces and natural-based solution efforts [2,4].…”

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“…This concept uses the potential power of nature as a means of providing solutions for such challenges [2,3]. Nature-based solutions are often considered to be an important contributor to sustainable development in many regions globally [1,4]. Due to its sustainable characteristics and pursuit of societal and environmental benefits, nature-based solutions, in recent years, have received increasing attention in various contexts [4][5][6].…”

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“…Nature-based solutions are often considered to be an important contributor to sustainable development in many regions globally [1,4]. Due to its sustainable characteristics and pursuit of societal and environmental benefits, nature-based solutions, in recent years, have received increasing attention in various contexts [4][5][6]. A society that employs nature-based solutions uses nature (or "greening") to address various challenges, with favorable outcomes for the society [1].…”

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Exploring the Role of Healthy Green Spaces, Psychological Resilience, Attitude, Brand Attachment, and Price Reasonableness in Increasing Hotel Guest Retention

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2019

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The present research was an empirical endeavor to explore the effect of green spaces on the traveler retention process and to establish a theory connecting such green spaces, psychological resilience, attitude, brand attachment, and retention in the hotel industry. A quantitative approach was employed to achieve study objectives. Our findings from the structural analysis indicated that green spaces as nature-based solution significantly influence psychological resilience. In addition, such relationship contributes to increasing positive attitude, strengthening brand-self connection and brand prominence, and building traveler retention. A salient role of attitude in determining retention was found. A further analysis (metric invariance) revealed that the linkage from green spaces to psychological resilience was moderated by hotel price reasonableness, and the association became stronger when guests feel that hotel price is reasonable. Overall, this research successfully verified the importance of a hotel’s green spaces and its role in guest psychological and affective responses and behaviors.

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“…In a systematic review of reviews, van den Bosch & Ode Sang, (2017) [48] stress the potential importance of NBS on human health and the lack of literature on this subtheme under the NBS umbrella. It is suggested to integrate health in the NBS approach as " It would showcase the need for analysing health issues and outcomes in environmental-related projects, both within science, and assessment and policy processes" (van den Bosch & Ode Sang, 2017, p. 9 [48]).…”

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The Institutionalization of Nature-Based Solutions—A Discourse Analysis of Emergent Literature

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The European Union quickly incorporated the concept of nature based-solutions (NBS), becoming a key promotor. This was achieved through financial support for both academic research and city implementations. Still, the processes of institutionalization are yet to be fully explored. This study aims at assessing how the scientific literature regarding NBS is addressing institutional aspects and how it is constructing the NBS narrative. This research is divided into two stages. First, it undertakes a quantitative analysis of the discourse, considering a set of preselected search terms organized into five categories: Actor, institutional, planning, policy, and regulation. Second, it adopts a qualitative analysis considering both a group of the most cited articles and of articles highlighted in the previous stage. The results indicate that the NBS concept is still shadowed by other environmental concepts such as ecosystem services. Despite being an issue promoted at the European level, the results of this exercise express the lack of concrete planning and policy recommendations, reflected by the absence of terms such as “planning objectives”. This pattern occurs in all other major categories, being the institutional category the least mentioned of all five categories. The results highlight the need to address both policies and planning recommendations more concretely, studying the institutional arrangements able to promote NBS.

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“…Substantial studies have proved that urban green space can promote public health through both regulating ecosystem services (such as improving air quality, relieving heat island effect) and cultural ecosystem services (such as improving physical activity, reducing stress) [1]. Despite this fact, it is still common to see green space land being squeezed by other land uses during the urbanization processes.…”

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Health-Oriented Evaluation of the Spatial Distribution of Urban Green Space in the Wuhan Inner City Area of China

Dong

Liu

2018

WIT Transactions on the Built Environment

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Research has proved that urban green space can be utilized to promote public health. While exploring the underlying mechanism, the main focus is always on the meso-scale characteristics of urban green space such as accessibility, availability, proximity, and its micro-scale attributes like area, quantity, constituent elements and environmental perception. Yet, its spatial distribution, as the macro-scale characteristics of urban green space, is also closely related to residents' health but has not well been explored. Regarding this, this paper takes the inner-city area of Wuhan as an example to evaluate the spatial distribution of the green space with Jiedao as the basic analysis unit. By buffer analysis and zonal analysis, the evaluation is conducted from five dimensions which are balance, equality, availability, accessibility and quality. The results show that, except in balance, the distribution of health-promotion green space is not satisfactory in the other four dimensions, especially in accessibility, quality and equality. The underlying causes could be attributed to three aspects of the current urban green space planning: (1) emphasis on ecology-oriented value and the application of "top-down" planning approach; (2) adoption of a single-dimension index system; (3) application of a static but not an adaptive framework. Therefore, from planning perspective, to shift the value-orientation and readjust the framework of urban green space planning will be one key solution to the identified problems.

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Urban natural environments as nature-based solutions for improved public health – A systematic review of reviews

Cited by 602 publications

References 96 publications

Exploring the Role of Healthy Green Spaces, Psychological Resilience, Attitude, Brand Attachment, and Price Reasonableness in Increasing Hotel Guest Retention

Exploring the Role of Healthy Green Spaces, Psychological Resilience, Attitude, Brand Attachment, and Price Reasonableness in Increasing Hotel Guest Retention

The Institutionalization of Nature-Based Solutions—A Discourse Analysis of Emergent Literature

Health-Oriented Evaluation of the Spatial Distribution of Urban Green Space in the Wuhan Inner City Area of China

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