The 2020 report of The Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: responding to converging crises

N Watts, M Amann, N Arnell, S Ayeb-Karlsson… - The lancet, 2021 - thelancet.com
The 2020 report of The Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: responding to
converging crises - The Lancet Skip to Main Content Advertisement The Lancet Journal This …

Associations between nature exposure and health: a review of the evidence

MP Jimenez, NV DeVille, EG Elliott, JE Schiff… - International journal of …, 2021 - mdpi.com
There is extensive empirical literature on the association between exposure to nature and
health. In this narrative review, we discuss the strength of evidence from recent (ie, the last …

Disproportionate exposure to urban heat island intensity across major US cities

A Hsu, G Sheriff, T Chakraborty, D Manya - Nature communications, 2021 - nature.com
Urban heat stress poses a major risk to public health. Case studies of individual cities
suggest that heat exposure, like other environmental stressors, may be unequally distributed …

Impacts of COVID-19 pandemic on urban park visitation: a global analysis

D Geng, J Innes, W Wu, G Wang - Journal of forestry research, 2021 - Springer
The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in over 33 million confirmed cases and over 1 million
deaths globally, as of 1 October 2020. During the lockdown and restrictions placed on public …

Green space and mortality in European cities: a health impact assessment study

EP Barboza, M Cirach, S Khomenko… - The Lancet Planetary …, 2021 - thelancet.com
Background Natural outdoor environments including green spaces play an important role in
preserving population health and wellbeing in cities, but the number of deaths that could be …

Urban nature in a time of crisis: recreational use of green space increases during the COVID-19 outbreak in Oslo, Norway

ZS Venter, DN Barton, V Gundersen… - Environmental …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
The global response to the COVID-19 pandemic has brought with it significant changes to
human mobility patterns and working environments. We aimed to explore how social …

Green space and health equity: a systematic review on the potential of green space to reduce health disparities

A Rigolon, MHEM Browning, O McAnirlin… - International journal of …, 2021 - mdpi.com
Disadvantaged groups worldwide, such as low-income and racially/ethnically minoritized
people, experience worse health outcomes than more privileged groups, including wealthier …

The impact of climate change on mental health and emotional wellbeing: a narrative review of current evidence, and its implications

EL Lawrance, R Thompson… - … Review of Psychiatry, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Converging global evidence highlights the dire consequences of climate change for human
mental health and wellbeing. This paper summarises literature across relevant disciplines to …

Redlines and greenspace: the relationship between historical redlining and 2010 greenspace across the United States

A Nardone, KE Rudolph… - Environmental health …, 2021 - ehp.niehs.nih.gov
Introduction: Redlining, a racist mortgage appraisal practice of the 1930s, established and
exacerbated racial residential segregation boundaries in the United States. Investment risk …

Nature and mental health: An ecosystem service perspective

GN Bratman, CB Anderson, MG Berman, B Cochran… - Science …, 2019 - science.org
A growing body of empirical evidence is revealing the value of nature experience for mental
health. With rapid urbanization and declines in human contact with nature globally, crucial …