Promoting ecosystem and human health in urban areas using Green Infrastructure: A literature review

By K. Tzoulas, Kalevi Korpela, S. Venn, V. Yli-Pelkonen, A. Kaźmierczak, J. Niemelä, P. James. 2007

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Subfields: Global and Planetary Change, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Plant Science

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Geolocated social media as a rapid indicator of park visitation and equitable park access (2018, background): “Even if parks with high coverage of green spaces and natural habitats are not the most highly visited urban areas, people who visit these parks derive physical and psychological health benefits (Tzoulas et al., 2007), and nature in urban parks may provide important ecosystem functions – such as air ”
A Vision for Human Well-Being: Transition to Social Sustainability (2012, neutral): “The presence of nature in cities fulﬁlls the need of humans to have contact with nature, and provides other beneﬁts from pollution removal to expedited recovery from illness [119].”
Enhancing urban biodiversity and its influence on city-dwellers: An experiment (2014, background): “This green infrastructure is typically strategically planned and designed to ensure the welfare of city-dwellers (Tzoulas et al., 2007).”
Novel urban ecosystems, biodiversity, and conservation. (2011, background): “, Auhagen and Sukopp,1983) as well as more recent papers highlight twomain reasons for enhancing conservation activities in urban settings: (1) as a contribution to the conservation of biodiversity and, (2) to enable the social functions and other ecosystem services that are associated with urban na”
Nature Contact and Human Health: A Research Agenda (2017, background): “There are myriad other benefits of nearby nature that extend beyond these psychological and physical health mechanisms (Bolund and Hunhammar 1999; Livesley et al. 2016; Tzoulas et al. 2007).”